About the Journal

IJSaP is published twice a year by McMaster University Library Press and supported by McMaster’s Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching.

Vision

The International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) is a journal about learning and teaching together in higher education. IJSaP explores new perspectives, practices, and policies regarding how students and staff (used here and subsequently to refer to academic staff/faculty, professional staff, and other stakeholders) are working in partnership to enhance learning and teaching in higher education. Shared responsibility for teaching and learning is the underlying premise of students as partners, and IJSaP is produced using a student-staff partnership approach. 

IJSaP is designed to appeal to a wide audience of readers and potential authors in the higher education community. It aims to publish high quality research articles, case studies, reflective essays, opinion pieces, reviews, and other pieces from around the world. Contributions written collaboratively by students and staff are particularly encouraged, although single and other co-authored pieces are also acceptable. All submissions go through a rigorous review process involving both staff and students.

About IJSaP

IJSaP is an open access, online, English-language, peer-reviewed journal that is committed to enacting the principles of partnership in the way it operates.

The distinctive features of IJSaP:

  1. It is an international journal on students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education
  2. It values multiple forms of analysis, including research articles, case studies, opinion pieces, reflective essays, and reviews
  3. Authors, reviewers, and readers constitute a broad group within the higher education community, including academics, instructors, educational developers, librarians, learning resource specialists, officers of students' unions/guilds associations, undergraduate and graduate students, and other stakeholders working with student partners
  4. Leadership is from an international editorial team of academics and students working in partnership

 

Announcements

Call for contributions to ‘Voices from the Field’

2025-05-19

The International Journal of Student as Partners (IJSaP) invites contributions to the seventh iteration of our "Voices from the Field" section, exploring how students-as-partners work develops capacity to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and precarity in today's world. We seek brief reflections (75-150 words) that share your experiences, hopes, or insights about partnership work in challenging contexts. Your submission should be informal yet substantive, clearly positioned from your perspective, and explicitly focused on partnership. We welcome up to 30 contributions, so please check the submission availability before preparing your response.

Read more about Call for contributions to ‘Voices from the Field’

Current Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2025): International Journal for Students as Partners
Published: 2025-05-19

Editorial

Research Articles

Case Studies

Reflective Essays

Voices from the Field

  • A time-capsule for Students as Partners 2034 What we left behind, what we’ve taken with us, and what we hope will be

    Fatima Iftikhar, Glenda Cox, Peter Fat Man LAU, Maria Ishkova, Jennifer Z. Sun, Cassandra Iannucci, Libby Kinna, Azra Naseem, Aisha Naz Ansari, Helia Nateghi Baygi, Nick Weise, Amanda Millmore, Kashmira Dave, Esai Reddy, Suliana Male, Danielle  Doria, Yerin Koekkoek, Antonia Crivineanu, Rohit Jahangier, Senka Rebac, Jürg Thölke, Elizabeth Dombi, Yen-En Kuo, Laura Kotevska, Stephany Veuger, Keyondrea Scott, Jacob Dang, Steven Zuiker, Ariane Umuringa, Steve Briggs, Tin Nguyen, Aasiya Satia, Rachel Liong-Rasi, Rowan Collin, Sandra Woods, Kelly Galvin, Jeff Waters, Bilal Ahmed, Mariam Abbas, Fien Van den Steen, Alecia R. Matthews, Jana Beleska, M. Geneva Murray, Teha Cooks, James Forde, Debi Howarth
    321-336
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