Student and staff co-creation additional resources

Blog posts, podcasts and videos; University training, networks and signing posting; External toolkits, guidance and websites; Journal articles and book chapters.

Blog posts

The following Teaching Matters blog posts explore co-creation in practice:

Co-creation might seem novel but it has always been at the heart of knowledge:
Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice:
Co-creating digital escape rooms: An opportunity for creativity and collaboration :
Adopting person-centred and compassionate teaching through co-creation:

The following Teaching Matters blog posts explain the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICC) process, and provide examples in practice across different Schools: SLICCs (Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses): A Supportive experiential space where students can flourish.

Podcast episodes

Podcast: Co-Creation in hybrid teaching and learning (8 min): A Teaching Matters podcast episode exploring how co-creation helped academic staff navigate the move to hybrid teaching and learning during the pandemic.

Videos and events

Learning and Teaching Conference 2022

Prof Catherine Bovill, Keynote: “Shaping the future curriculum with students” (50 mins).
Amplifying the student voice: Co-creation of resources to facilitate student feedback on learning and teaching across the University, a workshop by Fiona McNeill, Alex Burford & Nikola Popovic (32 mins).
Student-staff co-created novel resources to help students learn effectively, a workshop by Sophie Luc, Elise Darmon, Heather McQueen & Sabine Crozier (19 mins).
Co-creating a student development pathway within the student/alumni/staff network UNCOVER, by Neneh Rowa-Dewar, Ashmika Motee, Marshall Dozier, Damilola Iduye, Ruth McQuillan, Evropi Theodoratou, Thulani Ashcroft, Jasmin Rostron, Kayla Ostrishko & Emilie McSwiggan, and Designing and developing an online PGT curriculum in partnership with students, by Mairead Lesley Bermingham, Michelle Evans, Magdelena Mazurczak, Michelle Hart, Chris Sheridan, Nazir Lone, Neneh Rowa-Dewar & Sharon Levy (42 mins).

Engage Network

The following slides come from events held as part of the Engage Network over the last few years:

Curriculum creation as co-inquiry about the University: Dr Tai Peseta, Western Sydney University.
Student Partnership in Quality Systems: Eve Lewis, Director, Sparqs and Stef Black, Development Consultant, Sparqs.
Student-staff co-creation of a course: Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World: Prof Meryl Kenny, School of Social and Political Science.

Networks

The Engage Network aims to bring together University of Edinburgh students and staff interested in creating genuine and meaningful interactions focused on learning, teaching and assessment. Engage Network events run roughly once a month either online, in person or hybrid. Email iad.teach@ed.ac.uk to be added to the mailing list.

Signposting

Student Partnership Agreement (SPA) and SPA Funding: The Student Partnership Agreement states how the Edinburgh University Students’ Association and the University are working in partnership to enhance the student experience. The Student Partnership Agreement is reviewed annually and the priorities are agreed in consultation with students and staff. Student Partnership Agreement funding is then made available each year with a closing date in October, for projects where students and staff work in partnership to undertake activities which will progress the SPA priority areas.

Student Teaching Award winners: This overview of the winners of the 2023 Student Teaching Award provides a useful insight into positive learning and teaching experiences.

Toolkits

Student learning experience model - sparqs: A new model designed to support students and staff to work together to identify priorities to enhance the quality of learning. (sparqs - student partnerships in quality Scotland).

Guidance

Student Engagement Through Partnership Framework (7 pages): A framework developed by Advance HE in 2016 to reflect on, inspire and enhance practice and policy relating to partnerships in learning and teaching.

Student-staff partnerships: seven strategies for adopting inclusive practices: Times Higher Education Campus blog post by Judd and Szücs (2022) describing seven key strategies to, adopting inclusive partnership practices.

A practitioner's Guide to choice of assessment within a module: This guide provides an overview of ways to build choice into assessment.

A Student Engagement Framework for Scotland: This useful guidance document was created by sparqs (student partnerships in quality Scotland) and provides a framework for student engagement in HE.

Journal articles

Bovill, C. (2023) Students and staff co-creating curriculum in higher education, In R.J Tierney, F. Rizvi and K, Erkican (Eds). International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition), Elsevier, Pages 235-244, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.03039-6.

Bovill, C. (2020a) Co-creation in learning and teaching: the case for a whole-class approach in higher education. Higher Education 79 (6) 1023- 1037. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-019-00453-w.

Bovill, C. & Woolmer, C. (2019) How conceptualisations of curriculum in higher education influence student-staff co-creation in and of the curriculum. Higher Education 78 (3) 407 422. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-018-0349-8.

Stevens, D. (2022). Student partnership: A review of and guide to the literature (LSE: Eden Centre for Education Enhancement - 13 pages).

Books and book chapters

Barrineau et al (2019) An Active Student Participation Companion (132 pages): An excellent introductory text to do with co-creation (although the authors use the terminology ‘active student participation’) is by Swedish authors Barrineau et al (2019). This online open access book offers information about what active student participation and co-creation is, evidence for positive outcomes and many examples of practice.

Bovill (2020) Co-creating learning and teaching: Towards relational pedagogy (82 pages): Another accessible UoE library E-book by Bovill offers an overview of co-creating learning and teaching and the key connections to building relationships. There are lots of examples of practice as well as reflective questions to support you to think about your own teaching practice.

This article was published on 2024-11-08