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Dear Colleagues


We are delighted to let you know that we are launching the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP), a new open access journal about learning and teaching together in higher education. IJSaP explores new perspectives, practices, and policies regarding how students and staff (meaning academic staff/faculty, professional staff, and other stakeholders) are working in partnership to enhance learning and teaching in higher education. IJSaP is produced using a partnership approach with teams of students and staff from Australia, Canada, UK and USA. Further details about the journal are available at https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap.
We value multiple forms of analysis, including research articles, case studies, opinion pieces, reflective essays, and reviews. Some contributions will be specifically about the process of partnership. Others will focus on examples or outcomes of partnership activities. However, all contributions must discuss the implications of the partnership activity for learning and teaching in higher education.

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 who are trained and supported as reviewers. Students and staff with an interest in students as partners are invited to complete an expression of interest to join the International Review Panel https://goo.gl/forms/DNWKJQcSXSfkiQe43. Inexperienced reviewers will be trained and mentored before undertaking independent reviews. If you are an experienced reviewer you will be asked whether you would be willing to mentor an inexperienced reviewer. Wherever possible, we encourage experienced and inexperienced reviewers to sign up in pairs, to aid the mentoring process.


The journal is open for submissions at any time and following vetting and international peer review accepted pieces will be published in the next available issue. However, we would request that you send us a brief proposal (around 250 words) to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> on what you propose to submit before you write it.  Then we can give you feedback and monitor the likely pattern of submissions.


The idea for the journal emerged in conversations at the first International Summer Institute for Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, held at McMaster in May 2016. (The next one is planned for 8-11 May 2017 https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/summer-institute/). 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 (previously known as MIIETL).



We look forward to hearing from you and working with you to make this exciting venture to stimulate scholarly discussion of the rapidly growing field of students as partners a success. Please pass this note on to students and staff who you think may be interested.



Best wishes

Mick

Professor Mick Healey BA PhD NTF PFHEA

Higher Education Consultant and Researcher,
Emeritus Professor University of Gloucestershire,
Visiting Professor University College London,
The Humboldt Distinguished Scholar in Research-Based Learning McMaster University,
Adjunct Professor Macquarie University,
International Teaching Fellow University College Cork,
Visiting Fellow University of Queensland.

Inaugural Senior Editor International Journal for Students as Partners: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap;
HE Academy Associate and UKPSF Accreditor.

International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Distinguished Service Award 2015.

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For details on the first International Summer Institute on 'Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education' in May 2016 see: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/summer-institute/. The next Summer Institute will be held from 8-11 May, 2017

For four free publications each 20-40,000 words see:

(2013) Developing and enhancing undergraduate final-year projects and dissertations
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/node/8079

(2014) Developing research-based curricula in college-based higher education
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/heinfe/Developing_research-based_curricula_in_CBHE

(2014) Engagement through partnership: Students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/engagement-through-partnership-students-partners-learning-and-teaching-higher-education

(2015) Defining and supporting the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL): A sector-wide study. Literature review. York: Higher Education Academy (Fanghanel, J., et al.)  https://www.academia.edu/19942913/Defining_and_Supporting_the_Scholarship_of_Teaching_and_Learning_A_literature_review

For a series of international articles on undergraduate research see:
http://www.cur.org/resources/institutions/international_perspectives/

There have been over 65,000 downloads of bibliographies and case studies from my website in the last five years
http://www.mickhealey.co.uk/resources

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