Enhancing Student-Centred Teaching in Higher Education - The Landscape of Student-Staff Research Partnerships

This book explores student-staff partnerships through a breadth of co-authored research projects. There is a significant gap in current literature regarding student-staff partnerships, both in the sharing of examples as well as in the examination of partnership working and its impact. Organised into four thematic sections, the editors and contributors highlight the diversity of routes students and staff can take to work in partnership, as well as how research, learning and teaching can be co-created. Written by both university staff and student researchers, the chapters consider the benefits of student-staff partnerships as an antidote to consumerist visions of higher education, and a way of celebrating the potential of students and their voices. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of student-staff partnerships. 

Karen Gravett is Lecturer in the Department of Higher Education at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research focuses on student and academic identities, educational transitions, academic literacies and student-staff partnerships. 

Nadya Yakovchuk is a Teaching Fellow in the Doctoral College at the University of Surrey, UK. Her areas of interest include writing and knowledge construction in the disciplines, authorial voice and identity, academic integrity and student-staff partnerships.

Ian M. Kinchin is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Surrey, UK. He is engaged in the professional development of academic staff, whilst undertaking research into university pedagogy.