Announcing Deakin’s Students as Partners 2022 Grants
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 to collaborative student-staff research projects.
All projects were guided by our equity-first principles, with a focus on improving the undergraduate student experience post-COVID 19.
Full list of grants include:
Understanding the Challenges faced by the Regional Students in the Bachelor of Business Course
Led by Ahmed Ferdous and Omar Bashar
Area or Department: Faculty of Business and Law
Output(s): Exploration of one of the fastest growing and flagship undergraduate courses to explore regional students’ experiences
Enabling success in the Deakin Teaching Performance Assessment (DTPA)
Led by Amanda Mooney
Area or Department: Faculty of Arts and Education
Output(s): Co-production of a suite of DTPA resources designed to enhance student success in this high-stakes assessment task
Leveraging Undergraduate Student Perspective in Co-creating Open Access Australian Content
Led by Arpit Raswant and Rakesh Pati
Area or Department: Faculty of Business and Law
Output(s): Reinvigorating a Global Strategy and International Management unit through the co-creation of local regional and rural business case studies
But what do you actually do? Busting common career myths in engineering, construction management and IT
Led by Ellen Moon
Area or Department: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Output(s): Students partners interviewing diverse professionals based in regional and rural Victoria to support students transition out of university
More than Making – A Holistic Maker Space Designed for Curiosity
Led by Imali Dias
Area or Department: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Output(s): Developing a student Makerspace to connect students from across campuses and support the use of new innovative technologies
Enhancing the learning experience of an IT Innovation Unit for regional students
Led by Jack Li and Sophie Mckenzie
Area or Department: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Output(s): Co-designing with students towards new resources to embed entrepreneurship and innovation into an IT unit
Students as co-creators – developing assessment in the Bachelor of Health and Physical Education
Led by Cassandra Iannucci and Jacqui Peters
Area or Department: Faculty of Arts and Education
Output(s): Re-designing assessment in a capstone unit for pre-service teachers
Research project: The impact of group design on student experiences of staff-student partnership
Led by Jo Elliot
Area or Department: Deakin Learning Futures
Output(s): Exploring the impact of student partnership advisory groups on student voice in governance and equity student engagement
Development of a new major and units on recruitment and talent acquisition with industry
Led by Justine Ferrer and Amanda Pyman
Area or Department: Faculty of Business and Law
Output(s): Co-designing a new major, minor and two new units with industry and student partners to enhance graduate employability
Students as multilingual and multicultural influencers
Led by Michiko Weinmann and Rod Neilsen
Area or Department: Faculty of Arts and Education
Output(s): Exploring how do students from regional/lower SES/Indigenous cultures engage with the benefits and challenges of language and cultural diversity in their educational context?
Co-designing a first-year Arts and Education Unit
Led by Petra Brown and David Giles
Area or Department: Faculty of Arts and Education
Output(s): Supporting student and staff curriculum co-design of a flagship course for the Bachelor of Arts
Enhancing the Student Experience in Business Analytics
Led by Reza Kachouie and Stephen Williams
Area or Department: Faculty of Business and Law
Output(s): Co-developing equity student profiles with student partners to redesign the student experience
Examining Trimester 3 Modes of Teaching Delivery
Led by Sarah Steen
Area or Department: Faculty of Business and Law
Output(s): Seeking to understand students experiences in alternative T3 modes to better support student access and equity
Equity-Focused Foundation Maths Program
Led by Dawn Jones
Area or Department: Office of the Dean of Students
Output(s): Creating two new CloudFirst online Foundation Maths modules on Algebra and Trigonometry
Strengthening Regional and Outer-Urban Opportunities for Visual Arts Graduates
Led by Katie Lee and Katya Johanson
Area or Department: Faculty of Arts and Education
Output(s): Exploring regional and rural students experiences in future visual arts career paths
Co-creating a feedback literacy module to help students make the most of feedback
Led by Tegan Miller and Phillip Dawson
Area or Department: CRADLE Research Centre
Output(s): Partnering with students to develop a feedback literacy resources that bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and the student experience
Students as peer-teachers in first year undergraduate mathematics subjects
Led by Simon James
Area or Department: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Output(s): Pair teaching with student partners to explore the effect on student equity and learning
Re-designing Arts and Education Peer Support Program
Led by Aastha Shrestha
Area or Department: Faculty of Arts and Education
Output(s): Rebuilding the ArtsEd Peer Mentoring Program to support diverse learners and adapt to the new generation of students
Supporting Students in Digital Annotation
Led by Kat Cain and Craig Patterson
Area or Department: Library Learning and Teaching
Output(s): Creating learning resources to help students develop their digital annotation skills
‘Your Psychology Course’
Led by Jaclyn Broadbent
Area or Department: Faculty of Health
Output(s): Restructuring core units to clarify the narrative of the student journey and embed employability
Developing Learning Resources for Science Students
Led by Juanita Custance
Area or Department: Dean of Students
Output(s): Develop and produce accessible learning resources to improve early academic scientific report writing.
For information about the grants or the students as partners program, please reach out to Sam Geddes [email protected]