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 Additional Co-editors

2025-04-21

IJSaP seeks two new student–faculty/staff co-editor teams. One team from Canada (excluding McMaster) and one team from a country not currently represented on the editorial board. Co-editors manage manuscript reviews, support partnership values, and develop journal policy. This unique opportunity advances student-staff partnership in higher education. Applications due June 13, 2025.

Read more about Call for Additional Co-editors

Current Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2024)
Published: 2024-10-15

Research Articles

Case Studies

Reflective Essays

Voices from the Field

  • Voices from the field How did you come to engage in students-as-partners work?

    Felix Reid, Jem Hunt, Marissa Chow, Tanya Henry, Kelly Matthews, Tracy Douglas, Caroline Campbell, Thomas Rodgers, Suzanne Faulkner, Elizabeth Dombi, Lynne Jones, Lauren McMichan, Gillian Melville, Subethra Pather, M. Dulce Estêvão, Brent Terwilliger, Emily Faulconer, Robert Deters, Darryl Chamberlain, Amanda Millmore, Alex Tang, Gabriella Wong, Meg Wang, Sara Hamidi, Karen Arm, Kike Ladipo, Joanna Wilson-Scott, Mary Pryor, Mailie Besson, Samu Turi, Joy Perkins, Alexis Skopelitis, Scott Hicks, Zoha Aftab, Catherine Bovill, Kathryn Waddington, Sandra Smeltzer, Aisha Naz Ansari, Fatima Iftikhar, Jeremy Moulton, Jordan Ross, Alecia Matthews, Michelle Willmers, Ellie Davison, Thomas Hobson, Cassandra Iannucci, Loykie Lomine, Tamara Hervey, Rachael Lewitzky, Asia Majeed, Steve Briggs, Hurshal Pol, Kiu Sum, Chante Johannes, Tiffany Yeung, John Parkin
    241-259
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