What we’ve done, we’ve done together: Collaboration, Agency and Student Partnership
A celebration of 10 years of the Library Student Team
Date: Friday 3rd May 2024
Time: 11:00–16:30
Location: University of Manchester
👉Who are the Library Student Team?
We are thrilled to announce the upcoming University of Manchester Library Student Team (UMLST) celebration symposium bringing together excellence from across the sector for those supporting, delivering and exploring student partnership.
“a team of empowered, mutually supportive students… the most powerful demonstration of student voice I have witnessed.”
Adam Danquah, Associate Dean for Inclusive Education and Engagement
To mark a decade of student partnership, the inaugural one day event will bring together experiences, expertise and reflections across a day of activities.
Join us on campus in the state on the art Engineering Buildings on Oxford Rd, within easy reach of Oxford Road and Piccadilly Stations, for a series of roundtable discussions co-led by our students, a panel discussion of expert voices and an inspiring keynote to close the day. Refreshments will be provided throughout the day alongside a light lunch with ample time for networking.
Registration is open here — Eventbrite
Symposium Themes
Discussions will be centred around four themes for the day:
1. Student Partnership and the Student Voice: How are we approaching partnership as a mechanism to listen to and be in conversation with students? What impact has this work had on your own context and the students who participate?
2. Student Partnership and Learning: How does student partnership work align with learning, academic success or other elements of university studies? What approaches do we use to ensure learning is a focus in our work?
3. Student partnership and equity: How does student partnership reflect work around equity, inclusion and access? What drivers and impact does partnership have on systemic barriers and elements of belonging and mattering? What changes are you working towards or have you seen?
4. Student Partnership Wildcard: this theme will be built out of suggestions on the crowd-sourced Padlet and conversations that emerge on the day.
Event Schedule
- 11:00–11:30: Registration and refreshments
- 11:30–11:50: Welcome and opening remarks — Professor Chris Pressler (John Rylands University Librarian and Director of The University of Manchester Library) Katy Woolfenden (Deputy University Librarian and Associate Director Faculty and Student Partnerships)
- 11:50–12:50: Roundtable discussions — facilitated discussion across the event themes led by our skilled Library Student Team
- 12:50–13:40: Lunch
- 13:40–13:50: Reflections on the Day — Iqra Malik and Tabita-Gabriela Juravle (Library Student Team Graduate Interns)
- 13:50–14:40: Roundtable Discussions — facilitated discussion across the event themes led by our skilled Student Team
- 14:40–15:15: Coffee and networking
- 15:15–16:00: Panel discussion and Q&A
- 16:00–16:15: Closing keynote
- 16:15–16:30: Depart
University of Manchester Library Student Team
For ten years, the award-winning University of Manchester Library Student Team (UoM Teaching Excellence Award 2023) have been at the forefront of student partnership in higher education. Drawn from all Faculties and year groups, the team represents our own communities, histories, and perspectives, ensuring representation from, for example, racially minoritised cohorts, neurodivergent learners and students with caring responsibilities.
The team are involved in teaching and learning activities across the student life cycle and are embedded in the Library’s Teaching, Learning and Students Team, home of the award-winning My Learning Essentials skills programme.
