Since 2020, the Student Partnership team have worked in collaboration with the Teaching Excellence team at the Institute of Teaching and Learning (ITL) to support student-staff partnerships as part of their ITL Fellowship Projects.
To ensure that teaching and learning projects are co-created with students, all ITL Fellows work with a Student Partner in the design and delivery of their teaching and learning project.
Student Partners have now collaborated with staff across many faculties and professional services on their ITL Fellowship Projects, supporting a range of research tasks, from literature reviews to focus groups.
In their ‘Out of the Margins’ project, Student Partner Minahil Tariq and Staff Partner John Roache explored how educators can harness methods of digital annotation as a means of amplifying the student voice.
"Joining a fellowship with ITL was an enriching journey for us that offered profound insights into diverse teaching methodologies. This interdisciplinary partnership with John Roache not only broadened my understanding of teaching strategies but also underscored the need for flexibility and customization in educational approaches."
Minahil’s perspective – as a student working in a distinctly different disciplinary area from my own (English Literature) – not only widened the practical and intellectual scope of the project itself, but helped me to address a number of potential ‘blind spots’ in my understanding of what marginalisation might mean in Higher Education.
Read the rest of John’s article here: The marginality paradox (and how student partnership might help us solve it).
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