A meeting of the the Students as Collaborators, Partners and Educators Community of practice.

While the concept of embedding students at the heart of the educational process is not new, working in close partnership with them is a novel and developing concept. Dentistry has topic areas that lends themselves to the use of these educational methodologies to the benefit of both staff and students.

This session will look at student engagement though partnership in higher education by examining the process of working with students in all of the following aspects as outlined by Healey (2019).

• Teaching learning and assessment - examples of which are peer mentoring, assessment, co-teaching and peer assisted learning.
• Subject based research and enquiry - embedding research and inquiry into the curriculum
• Scholarship of teaching and learning - students undertake projects designed to improve university learning experience for themselves and their peers.
• Curriculum design and pedagogy - least developed area