The partnership co-creation process: Conditions for success?

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https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v5i2.4772

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partnership, values, co-creation, partnership process, evaluation

Abstract

Staff-student partnership activity continues to increase across the higher education sector, expanding to encompass a broad range of initiatives. Numerous frameworks and typologies have been proposed to help organise the literature and facilitate comparisons among different types of partnerships. The research reported here draws on a case study of a quality-enhancement staff-student partnership to identify the stages of the partnership co-creation process. It argues that the establishment of partnership values is intertwined with the stages of the co-creation process and is critical to the partnership’s success. This research contributes to practice and the literature by offering a practical approach to managing a staff-student partnership, adding to work on quality enhancement partnerships, and extending prior work evaluating partnership activity from the perspectives of multiple stakeholders.

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Author Biographies

Susan Smith, University of Sussex

Susan Smith is Associate Dean (Education and Students) at the University of Sussex Business School. She is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting.

Kimiya Akhyani, University of Sussex

Kimiya Akhyani is a student at the University of Sussex Business School (at the time of writing).

Dan Axson, University of Sussex

Dan Axson is an academic developer at the University of Sussex, UK.

Andre Arnautu, University of Sussex

Andrei Arnautu is a student at the University of Sussex (at the time of writing).

Ilina Stanimirova, University of Sussex

Ilina Stanimirova is a student at the University of Sussex (at the time of writing).

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2021-11-17

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Smith, S., Akhyani, K., Axson, D., Arnautu, A., & Stanimirova, I. (2021). The partnership co-creation process: Conditions for success?. International Journal for Students as Partners, 5(2), 48–66. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v5i2.4772

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021)

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