Abstract
Our intention in this reflective essay is to make sense of the ways our partnership worked and didn’t work, the inherent tensions within it, with the hope of contributing to broader scholarly conversations about engaging in student-staff partnerships.
Highlights
As members of a student-staff partnership project team, we worked together over a sixmonth period to design and organise the first Business, Economics and Law Faculty “CreateAthon” event at the University of Queensland, Australia
It is apparent from our reflections that many of our feelings were echoed and frustrations were shared within our partnership team, we did not realise or address it at the time
Many of the issues that we experienced individually indicated a lack of honesty and trust throughout the partnership
Summary
The other side was far less authentic, where I felt guilty and uncertain about how to manage partners who were not engaging and leaving additional work and responsibilities to others While it felt undiscussable at the time, it is clear through our shared reflections that both Clarissa and Aimee felt this tension and, felt disempowered by my Knaggs, A., Leonard, J., Dharmaseta, Cl. I felt it was my duty as a staff member to take on more responsibility, and in an attempt to remain professional, I felt unable to be honest about this with the student partners—my undiscussable It was only in the follow up discussions, after the student partners had graduated and the associations of the student/staff roles had faded, that I felt able to share this reflection and heard how Aimee had experienced it on the other side. What I have learned from this reflective process and will take into the studentstaff partner project is the realisation that I need to let go of preconceived ideas, be more comfortable with uncertainty and trust others with what it is they are asking for
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