TY - JOUR
T1 - A Partnership Outcome Spaces framework for purposeful student–staff partnerships
AU - Kligyte, Giedre
AU - van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke
AU - Leslie, Jarnae
AU - Key, Tyler
AU - Hooper, Bethany
AU - Salazar, Eleanor
N1 - Accepted Author Manuscript
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The benefits of student–staff partnerships are widely reported in the Students-as-Partners literature. It is envisaged that partnership initiatives can have a transformative effect on institutional cultures, however, how this transformation might be achieved is less clear. Building on transdisciplinary and systems change perspectives, we propose a Partnership Outcome Spaces framework to develop an understanding of how student–staff partnerships might influence institutional cultures. We identify four outcome spaces: situation, knowledge, learning and relationships, with reflexivity and a structured partnership methodology as key enablers of these outcomes. This framework is applied to a case study examining a Student Services Hub project in one Australian university. Through this analysis, the importance of less tangible and relational outcomes arising from student–staff partnerships are highlighted. To influence institutional culture change, we encourage student–staff partnership practitioners to purposefully negotiate the various possible outcomes of their initiatives as an integral part of the partnership process.
AB - The benefits of student–staff partnerships are widely reported in the Students-as-Partners literature. It is envisaged that partnership initiatives can have a transformative effect on institutional cultures, however, how this transformation might be achieved is less clear. Building on transdisciplinary and systems change perspectives, we propose a Partnership Outcome Spaces framework to develop an understanding of how student–staff partnerships might influence institutional cultures. We identify four outcome spaces: situation, knowledge, learning and relationships, with reflexivity and a structured partnership methodology as key enablers of these outcomes. This framework is applied to a case study examining a Student Services Hub project in one Australian university. Through this analysis, the importance of less tangible and relational outcomes arising from student–staff partnerships are highlighted. To influence institutional culture change, we encourage student–staff partnership practitioners to purposefully negotiate the various possible outcomes of their initiatives as an integral part of the partnership process.
KW - outcomes
KW - students-as-Partners
KW - Student–staff partnerships
KW - systems change
KW - transdisciplinarity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108297890&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13562517.2021.1940924
DO - 10.1080/13562517.2021.1940924
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108297890
SN - 1356-2517
VL - 28
SP - 1867
EP - 1885
JO - Teaching in Higher Education
JF - Teaching in Higher Education
IS - 8
ER -