Students as Partners Roundtable
The annual Students as Partners Roundtable event brings together members of the Students as Partners Network.
2024 Global Students as Partners Roundtable
The 2024 Global SaP Roundtable took place between 9-18 September.
This year, we celebrated 10 years of the Roundtable and imagined the next 10 years!
There were 3 online sessions reflecting on this year's theme of inspiration, action and aspiration.
- Session 1, 9-10 September: a conversation with leading SaP scholars on what inspires them.
- Session 2, 12 September: share a case study, research or paradox with peers (submissions close 30 June).
- Session 3, 18 September: a dialogue on the next 10 years for SaP.
Read more about each session by clicking through the session tabs
For those new to SaP, the goal of the annual Roundtable is to encourage members to:
- share practices, ideas and experiences
- discover new ways of thinking, engaging in, and reflecting on students-as-partners practices
- network with a diversity of practitioners and scholars, and
- harness the creativity of staff and students to advance teaching and learning.
Unsure what 'students as partners' means? Watch the introductory video.
What's new in 2024
In 2024 we expanded and introduced new opportunities:
- Engaging across continents and time zones through a series of online sessions.
- Contributing to the scholarly legacy through co-authored publications in the International Journal for Students as Partners through the unique and innovative Voices in the Field genre.
- Contributing to 2024 Students as Partners Roundtable proceedings, and expanding your submission into a full case study, research article, reflective essay, or opinion piece for publication in the International Journal for Students as Partners.
Join the Students as Partners Network to stay updated with announcements about the event.
Online sessions
Theme: Inspiration
The people and practices that have inspired us to engage in partnership practices and research over the past decade, propelling us to this current momentum.
About the session
This session invites the global student-staff partnership community to reflect on the ideas, concepts and people that have inspired us to orient and expand our educational work towards partnership.
Featuring Professors Alison Cook-Sather and Mick Healey in conversation with the Western Sydney University Student Partner team, the session is an opportunity to pause, take stock, and reflect with others on our inspirations.
We'll consider how those inspirations have supported the design, implementation, evaluation and impact of our student-staff partnership practices, and learn from each other how those practices can be sustained.
Join the conversation to recognise and challenge how our inspirations carry us into the future.
The session will run for 2 hours, and is hosted and curated by the Western Sydney University Student Partner team: A/Professor Tai Peseta, Samuel Suresh and Lilly-Rose Saliba.
Time and registration
Sessions are hosted online, and offered twice to accommodate time zones. The 2 offerings are the same.
- Offering 1: Monday 9 September 9:00pm (AEST). Look up your time zone
- Offering 2: Tuesday 10 September 9:30am (AEST). Look up your time zone
Participate in the session
Here's how you can get involved:
- Register for the session.
- Read 2 articles that have inspired many of our curiosities about student-staff partnership:
- Skim read the contributions that colleagues around the world have made to IJSaP’s Voices from the Field.
- Prepare 1 or 2 questions you'd like Alison Cook-Sather and/or Mick Healey to answer in the session. Submit your questions through this form.
Theme: Actions
The current practices, research, and activities implemented to bring the partnership to life in our diverse higher education institutions.
About the session
You run this session! Attendees are invited to present one of the following:
- a case study of your practice
- a research abstract sharing your scholarship and theorisations
- a paradox presenting challenges, complexities or nuances animating your thinking about partnership.
Submissions to present are now closed. You don't need to be a presenter to attend — all are welcome to participate. The session is 2 hours.
Time and registration
Sessions are hosted online, and offered twice to accommodate time zones. The 2 offerings are the same.
- Offering 1: Thursday 12 September 5:00am (AEST). Look up your time zone
- Offering 2: Thursday 12 September 3:00pm (AEST). Look up your time zone
Key dates
- 15 April: submissions open
- 30 June: submissions due
- 28 July: decisions to authors
- 31 August: session timetable released, including descriptions
Submission/presenting information
- Each presenter should only upload one submission.
- We aim to accommodate all submissions relevant to the topic of SaP. Our team of reviewers will offer developmental guidance to strengthen submissions.
- There will be 2 sessions to accommodate global time zones. The author/s will present in one session. When authors submit their final revised submissions, they will indicate their session (time zone) preference on either 11 or 12 September, depending on their time zone.
- All submissions will be included in the 2024 SaP Roundtable Proceedings.
- Authors eager to expand their submissions into an International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) publication can do so. IJSaP full submissions are due by 30 November 2024 and will progress through the standard IJSaP review process.
Submission types and templates
Case study
- Use the case study template and complete in one page.
- You'll be allocated 25 minutes, with 15 minutes to present and 10 minutes to facilitate discussion (including seeking feedback from attendees) and answer questions.
- See an example case study from the 2015 SaP Roundtable.
Partnerships practice paradox
- Use the paradox template and complete in one page.
- You'll be allocated 25 minutes, with 10 minutes to present and 15 minutes to facilitate discussion about the identified paradox.
- See an example paradox submission from the 2021 SaP Roundtable.
Research abstract
- Use the research template to complete a 300-word abstract
- You'll be allocated 25 minutes, with 17 minutes to present and 8 minutes to answer questions and/or seek feedback from attendees.
- See an example research abstract from the 2018 ISSoTL Conference.
Theme: Aspirations
The ambitions we aspire to achieve in the next decade, as partnership practices and research expand and evolve to more places and spaces globally.
About the session
Participants will be invited to reflect on their visions for SaP in the year 2034. The structure will include a group warm-up activity where participants will share their SaP aspirations, and identify what actions might need to take place now to support these aspirations in the future.
Participants will then be put into break-out rooms to co-create a ‘time capsule’ for SaP in the year 2034.
Following the session, all participants will be invited to submit an entry for a ‘Voices from the Field’ on their reflections from the workshop, which will be published in the International Journal of Students as Partners.
This session is 1 hour. It will use Miro board, and we recommend all participants join from a desktop computer.
This session is facilitated by a global team of students-as-partners researchers and practitioners, and includes:
- Professor Mollie Dollinger (Curtin University)
- Giedre Kligyte (University of Technology Sydney)
- Glenda Cox (University of Capetown)
- Christopher Ostrowdun (Leeds University)
- Fatima Iftikhar.
Time and registration
Sessions are hosted online, and offered twice to accommodate time zones. The 2 offerings are the same.
- Offering 1: Wednesday 18 September 2:00am (AEST). Look up your time zone
- Offering 2: Wednesday 18 September 3:00pm (AEST). Look up your time zone
Contact
For questions about the Global SaP Roundtable, get in touch with the team.
globalsap2024@gmail.com