Pandemic partnerships
“Unanticipated has been that equalling of the partnership that happens when we're all sitting in our various spare bedrooms, all looking a bit dishevelled and weary, all looking at one another in random squares on the zoom screen: we're all in this together.” - Matthews et al. anonymous survey respondent (2020)
This interactive presentation will explore how can we go about promoting student-staff partnerships within the context of a pandemic. It will draw on several sources, including a set of mini case studies of partnership going online from different parts of the world, and an international community poll on the impact of COVID-19. These responses will be discussed in the context of the values that underpin partnership practice. Participants will be asked to share their stories and approaches to ‘pandemic partnerships’.
Resources
Click here to see our online keynote entitled ‘Promoting pandemic partnerships’ we presented to RAISE Students as Partners Special Interest Group conference on ‘Pandemic partnerships and power’, University of Chester, 2 September 2020 (from 8.07min to 55.25 mins). Handout available here.
Comments
“My take home message from this session is that students and staff are all scholars in a community of practice.”
“This is a great session.”
“The online context offers new opportunities to co-create.”