Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022): Special Issue: Student Engagement and Partnership in Irish Higher Education A Special Issue co-edited by NStEP and AISHE
From: Introduction to the Issue: Oisín Hassan; Moira Maguire; Morag Munro, Ronan Bree
Welcome to the first issue of AISHE-J in 2022, our largest to date and one we are most proud to have collaborated with the National Student Engagement Programme (NStEP) on. As a journal, we have been eager for some time to provide an avenue for both student and staff authors to share their work and enhancement with student engagement and partnership. Hence, via our collaboration with NStEP, we decided to devote a Special Issue solely focusing on recent advances in this space. This area has been growing significantly in recent years, with students and staff working on a multitude of activities such as advisory groups, co-creation, decision making and assessment design – together.
As co-editors, we approached this issue by engaging in partnership from the on set, with the team working quite closely in recent months. However, one partnership we are excited to describe to you is that of our newly established panel of student reviewers. This is something that the AISHE-J team had been interested in developing for some time; partnering with NStEP enabled it to happen. Interested students were recruited via NStEP and we conducted a joint, online training workshop during the summer of 2021. These students have since reviewed submissions in parallel with academic experts. Hence, authors were receiving feedback with both the lens of a staff member and a student. As editors, we were highly impressed by both the enthusiasm of the student reviewer panel members, and even more so with the quality of their constructive feedback for the authors. It’s a partnership that became the foundation for the success of this Special Issue, and one that all at AISHE-J and NStEP have been fortunate to have been involved with.
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