We are Co-Researchers

Through our writing and presentations , we do our best to add value to the research field about Student-Staff Partnership. It’s a big learning curve for many of us but it has helped expand our curriculum co-creation work.

Publications

It’s important for us to communicate our curriculum co-creation work to audiences outside our University. We want researchers to have a chance to build on our work, and we want our work to be in dialogue with the international Student-Staff Partnership research conversation. It’s a good way for us to test our ideas and practices.

Read Our Research Papers

  • From Student to Student Partner: Revisiting Student Expertise and Power in Curriculum Partnership

    Peseta, T., & Suresh, S. (2024). From Student to Student Partner: revisiting student expertise and power in curriculum partnership. Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education, Issue 42, https://repository.brynmawr.edu/tlthe/vol1/iss42/14

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  • Dancing with power in ‘We are the university: Students co-creating change’

    Peseta, T., Donoghue, A., Hifazat, S., Suresh, S., Beathe, A., Derbas, J., Mees, B., Suresh, S., Sugita, C., Mallawa Arachchi, T., Nguyen, E., Johnson, L., Clark, S., Ramegowda, R., Alford, J., Manthos, M., Jose, C., Caughey, E., Reed, V., & Ashcroft-Smith, M. (2021). Dancing with power in ‘We are the university: Students co-creating change’. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 18(7), 258-274. https://doi.org/ 10.53761/1.18.7.16

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  • Seeing institutionally: a rationale for 'teaching the University' in student and staff partnerships.

    Peseta, T.  & Bell, A. (2020). Seeing institutionally: a rationale for 'teaching the University' in student and staff partnerships. Higher Education Research & Development, 39(1), 99-112.

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  • A Partnership Mindset: students as partners in and beyond the academy.

    Peseta, T., Pizzica, J., Beathe, A., Jose, C., Manthos, M., Lynch, R., Nguyen, K. & Raza, H. (2020). A Partnership Mindset: students as partners in and beyond the academy. In L. Mercer-Mapstone & S. Abbot (Eds.), The Power of Partnership: Students, staff and faculty revolutionizing higher education. Centre for Engaged Learning: Elon University.

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Presentations

We have been given some incredible opportunities to present our work to our colleagues in the Student-Staff Partnership community.

Invited Keynotes

Peseta, T. (2018). How can we teach the University? Keynote address at Celebrating Higher Education Symposium. University of Otago, NZ, 14-15 November.

Peseta, T., Alford, J., Beathe, A., Donoghue, A., Hifazat, S., & Suresh, Shivani. (2021). From transaction to partnership: re-energising curriculum co-creation through student-staff partnership. Keynote address for Brookes Learning Teaching Conference and Exhibition, Oxford Brookes University, UK, online from Western Sydney University, 16 June.

Felten, P., Mees, B., Nguyen, E., & Sugita, C. (2021). Perspectives on Partnership Paradoxes: Purpose, Power, Particularity and Paradigm. Keynote address at the National Students as Partners Roundtable, online from Western Sydney University, 23-25 November.

Peseta, T., Mallawa-Arachchi. T., Mees, B., Newell, K., Saliba, L-R., & Suresh, Shivani. (2022). Curriculum co-creation as boundary-breaking: expanding our horizons for partnership between students and the academic library. Keynote address for the National Conference Council of Australian Librarians, online from Western Sydney University, 7 September.

Peseta, T., Suresh, Samuel., Suresh, Shivani., Saliba, L-R., Rahman, T., Alford, J., & Plzak, D. (2022). Student-Staff Partnership as a place of radical possibility: troubling the call for impact and success. Keynote address for the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association National Conference, online from Western Sydney University, 8 December.

Peseta, T., Suresh, Samuel., Alford, J., & Suresh, Shivani (2023). Improving educational practice through Partnership with students: Co-inquiry as Scholarship. Keynote address for the Australian College of Applied Professions, Sydney campus, 1 November.

Peseta, T., & Suresh, Samuel. (2024). Seeing students as partners in educational transformation: examples and reflections for university teachers. Keynote address for the Science Educators Community of Practice Symposium, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Camperdown campus, 26 July.


Presentations

Donoghue, A., Condie, J., Gourley, J., Mallawa Arachchi, T., & Drum, M. (2021). Can curriculum defy business as usual practices by centring equity and justice? National Students as Partners Roundtable, 23-25 November.

Hifazat, S., Newell, K., Peseta, T & Suresh, Shivani. (2022). Transforming curriculum through student-staff partnership. Presentation to The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, 19 April.

Mallawa Arachchi, T., Condie, J., Swist, T. & Hanckel, B. (2021). Student-staff coalitions and power sharing: Pushing the boundaries of curriculum making within neoliberal higher education. National Students as Partners Roundtable, 23-25 November.

Peseta, T. (2021). On student partnership as expertise. Symposium ‘Revisiting the mundane to rearticulate the idea of the University: generating new meanings for university practices. Academic Identities Conference, Roskilde University, 21-23 June.

Peseta, T. (2023). Curriculum creation as co-inquiry about the university. Seminar for Department of Education, Lancaster University, UK, 24 April.

Peseta, T., & Suresh, Samuel. (2022). A Partnership Mindset: examples from the 21C Project. National Students as Partners Roundtable, 22-23 November.

Peseta, T., & Suresh, Samuel. (2023). Student-Staff Partnership as a ‘possibility-space’. National Students as Partners Roundtable, University of Melbourne, 27-28 September.

Peseta, T., Suresh, Samuel., Suresh, Shivani, & Saliba, L-R. (2024). Reconstituting the object of Student-Staff Partnership to be ‘the University’: puzzles, provocations and possibility spaces. Roundtable at the Critical University Studies Conference, Education University of Hong Kong, 19-21 June.

Peseta, T., Suresh, Shivani., Alford, J., Rahman, T., & Edwards, J. (2023). Reading between the lines: Learning about Student-Staff Partnership (SSP) with the Library. National Students as Partners Roundtable, University of Melbourne, 27-28 September.

Peseta, T., Suresh, Shivani, Clarke, S., Edwards, J., & Newell, K. (2022). A Day in the Life of being a 21C Student Curriculum Partner: co-creating curriculum at the intersection of the UN SDGs. National Students as Partners Roundtable, 22-23 November.

Peseta, T., Suresh, Shivani & Edwards, J. (2022). Re-imagining learner-centredness when students co-create curriculum: lessons from the 21C project at Western Sydney University. Open Learning Conference, online from Western Sydney University, 9 December.

Peseta, T., Suresh, Shivani, Saliba, L-R., Alford, J., & Edwards, J. (2022). Preparing students for student partnership: revisiting the potential of a Partnership Mindset. Student Voice Australia Symposium, online, 26 September.

Peseta, T., Tharaki Arachchi, S., Taybally, R., Alford, J., & Suresh, Shivani. (2021). When We Are The University, what is possible? Partnership paradoxes at the learning coalface. National Students as Partners Roundtable, online from Western Sydney University, 23-25 November.

Suresh, Samuel., Dixon, A., Mohamad, B. & Newell, K. (2023). Do students understand the promise you’re making to them in your Student-Staff Partnership work? an approach to marketing and communicating SSP’s transformative potential to students. National Students as Partners Roundtable, University of Melbourne, 27-28 September.