Open AccessThe partnership co-creation process: Conditions for success?
Author(s) -
Susan Smith,
Kimiya Akhyani,
Dan Axson,
Andre Arnautu,
Ilina Stanimirova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal for students as partners
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2560-7367
DOI - 10.15173/ijsap.v5i2.4772
Subject(s) - general partnership , process (computing) , work (physics) , public relations , quality (philosophy) , business , process management , knowledge management , political science , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , philosophy , finance , epistemology , operating system
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.