The student perspective of a staff-student partnership scheme.

Abstract

The Imperial College StudentShaper program is a student partnership scheme created to encourage staff– student collaboration on educational research. 1 Its core tenet is for staff and students to be equally valued and mutually benefit, with the overall aim of improving student experience. This approach aligns with the concept of ‘students as partners’, proposing that involving students in their own education processes improves their engagement, agency and enhances higher education programs. 2 While similar schemes exist elsewhere, 3,4 the StudentShaper program is to my knowledge unique in providing a ded-icated platform for student partnership, supported by Imperial College strategy and a student bursary. my I em-ployed twice as a StudentShaper in two year- long research projects concerning student for and the of pre- performance in medicine respectively.