Students as Partners at Deakin

Supported by the Office of the Dean of Students

Welcome to Students as Partners

Supported through the Office of the Dean of Students, Students as Partners (SaP) at Deakin University is a centrally run suite of programs designed to support all of our students and staff to experience and engage in meaningful and effective partnership.

We conceptualise Students as Partners at Deakin as opportunities that embed five principles:

Reciprocal learning between students and staff
Recognition of students’ expertise in their lived experiences
Shared responsibility across stakeholders
Supporting respect and transparency
Repositioning students from users to our co-creators

Latest News

Expressions of Interest Now Open | Students Mentoring Staff

by Sam Geddes | | Events, Students Mentoring Staff | 0 Comments

Expressions of Interest Now OpenT2 Students Mentoring StaffStaff and student expressions of interest are now open for Students Mentoring Staff in the upcoming Trimester 2 2023 round.Following a successful 2022 of 120+ student-staff matches, expressions of interest are...

First Intake 2023 Microgrant Applications Now Open

by Sam Geddes | | Events, Microgrants | 0 Comments

2023 Students as Partners Microgrant First Intake Applications now open All Deakin staff members are invited to apply now for a 2023 Students as Partners Microgrant project.The Students as Partners microgrant program is a HEPPP funded scheme that facilitates...

Announcing Deakin’s Students as Partners 2022 Grants

by Emily Partington | | Microgrants, Practice, Programs, Showcase | 0 Comments

Deakin University is proud to announce the successful Students as Partners (SaP) grants for 2022. After a competitive peer-review process, a total of 21 projects were funded. Led by staff across the university, projects ranged from curriculum co-design with students...

Students as multicultural and multilingual influencers

by Sam Geddes | | Showcase | 0 Comments

This Students as Partners microgrant project was completed in 2022 in collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and Education (School of Education and School of Humanities and Social Sciences) and four undergraduate student partners. Placing student voice at the...

Announcing Deakin’s Students as Partners 2022 Grants

by Emily Partington | | Microgrants, Practice, Programs, Showcase | 0 Comments

SaP Roundtable Hackathon: Personas

by Emily Partington | | Research | 0 Comments

A group of students and staff from several universities participated in the 2021 Students as Partners Roundtable. Dr Mollie Dollinger, Jarrod Hurst (Deakin Student), Dr Belinda D’Angelo (La Trobe) and Alice Jensen (La Trobe Student), hosted a Hackathon on how to...