Reflections on student-staff research partnership: Opportunities, benefits, & challenges

West, Harry and Hill, Jennifer ORCID: 0000-0002-0682-783X (2018) Reflections on student-staff research partnership: Opportunities, benefits, & challenges. In: Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, 28-30 August 2019, London. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper explores the opportunities for student-staff partnership in the research process, before progressing to examine the benefits and challenges of such engagement. Using the model of Healey (2005), opportunities for student partnership in research will be mapped across the undergraduate learning journey. The authors will demonstrate how research partnership includes opportunities within and outside of the formal curricula. We suggest that partnership in this form operates as a “Borderland Space” (Hill et al., 2016) allowing for the re-conceptualisation of practices and identities. This transformative and novel learning experience has benefits in the form of the development of graduate attributes (Barrie, 2004). We highlight the important role for extra-/co-curricular activity in enabling the development of graduate competencies free from formal assessment. However, partnership can be challenging for both partners. The de-stabilizing of traditional power relations, shifting conceptualizations of identity, the sustainability of the partnership, the challenge of providing an inclusive curriculum, and ethics of co-research/publication, all come into play. We conclude that undergraduate research is the pedagogy of the twenty-first century (CUR, 2005) and that partnership across the research cycle can prepare students for employment and citizenship in a rapidly changing world. However, fulfilling the promise of research partnership does require co-ordinated evolution of institutional policies that enable productive disruptions through partnership, and appropriate recognition and reward for staff and students.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Student research; Student partnership
Related URLs:	Repository
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Divisions:	Professional Services > Academic Quality, Enhancement and Innovation
Research Priority Areas:	Place, Environment and Community
Depositing User:	Marta Kemp
Date Deposited:	29 Jan 2020 13:22
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2022 15:30
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/7854

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