We are always looking for new ways to engage students in delivering meaningful positive change to their education and wider student experience. Building on the success of our other work and schemes from CERD (the Centre for Educational Research & Development), in the form of FED and UROS, we are soon to launch ‘Student Change Projects’ which will flip the norm of staff leading our partnership working with students to students taking the lead for themselves.
Informed by the fantastic Students as Change Agents work at Exeter and the Student Academic Partners work at Birmingham City, but with a Lincoln / Student as Producer twist, we will support around 10 pilot projects this year to answer a research question and then develop a small scale output that enhances the student experience in some way. For instance this might be running a series of skills workshops, trialing engagement with Twitter in lectures or producing top tips for students on making best use of their feedback in video form.
In essence, we’re asking ‘what’s your big idea?’ and supporting students to make those ideas reality.
Visit http://studentengagement.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2013/10/22/student-change-projects-what-do-you-think/ for more details.