We are delighted to announce that Birmingham City University will be hosting the 8th annual Change agents’ network conference on the 15-16th April 2020. We will be working with Luke Millard, Director of the Education Development Service at BCU and a long standing advocate for CAN and student partnerships on this event. More information will … Read more

The Evolving Landscape of Staff-Student Partnership – Vol 6. No.1 The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change (JEIPC) is practice-led with deep roots in developing student-staff co-authorship. It supports the dissemination of innovative practice through educational partnership between staff and students to promote local- and larger-scale change, and impact on institutional narratives for change. … Read more

The Open University is proud to be hosting the Change agents’ network Conference 2019 in partnership with Jisc and we would like to announce the call for contributions from colleges and universities who are working in partnership with their students. In 2019 the CAN Conference will focus on the evolving landscape of staff-student partnerships at … Read more

We are delighted to be working with The Open University who will be hosting the 7th annual Change agents’ network conference on 29-30th May 2019. This conference offers a unique opportunity of celebrating the power of student-staff partnership working which is now recognised as a driver for curriculum innovation and change. The Open University takes … Read more

We are delighted to announce the publication of the 5th edition of the Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change: Vol 3, No 2 (2017): Embedding the Culture of Engagement. This edition brings together practice which was presented at the CAN 2016 conference held at the University of Lincoln and showcases the innovative practice in … Read more

We are delighted to announce the launch of the special issue of the Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change: Vol 3, No 1 (2017): Reacting to the ‘Hard to Reach’ through Student Engagement Initiatives. This special issue of The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change is slightly different from previous issues in that … Read more

We are delighted to have a guest post from Dr Catherine Bovill, Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement, Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh: The McMaster Summer Institute for Students as Partners was first run in 2016 and brings together researchers and practitioners interested and active in Students as Partners (SaP) work across the world. … Read more

I was privileged to work with the University of Exeter this year to organise the 5th annual conference of the Change agents’ network. The conference which took place on the 20 – 21 April was attended by 180 staff and students from universities and colleges across the UK. This year’s theme, Supporting effective partnerships, was … Read more

As part of our collaboration with Surf Netherlands around innovation in learning and teaching, we held joint event hosted at the Jisc London offices on Tuesday 24 January 2017. The event was attended by 45 people including a Surf study group of about 20 staff from colleges and universitites. Delegates from the UK presented examples … Read more

Professor Mick Healy, on behalf of the IJSaP Editorial Board, has offered us an opportunity to share innovative UK practice on working in partnership with students with an international audience. We are delighted to let you know that about the launch of the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP), a new open access journal … Read more