Dr Harry West Harry.West@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Geography & Environmental Management
Reflections on student-staff research partnership: Opportunities, benefits, & challenges
West, Harry; Hill, Jennifer
Authors
Jenny Hill Jennifer.Hill@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Teaching and Learning
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.
Citation
West, H., & Hill, J. (2018, August). Reflections on student-staff research partnership: Opportunities, benefits, & challenges. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, Cardiff, Wales
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (unpublished) |
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Conference Name | Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference |
Conference Location | Cardiff, Wales |
Start Date | Aug 28, 2018 |
End Date | Aug 31, 2018 |
Acceptance Date | Mar 1, 2018 |
Publication Date | Aug 29, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Keywords | reflections, student-staff research, partnership, opportunities, benefits, challenges |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/862400 |
Additional Information | Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference |
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