As two colleagues who have had sustained roles in embedding and facilitating student engagement, we see student participation as central to shaping our university’s values and fundamental to enhancing their learning.
In particular, we have followed an ethos of ‘Student as Producer,’- alongside other examples of student engagement and participation. This journey developed impetus when Professor Mike Neary and colleagues from other institutions such as the University of Bristol, launched and embedded the ‘Student as Producer’ concept at Lincoln, with funding from the Higher Education Academy. This teaching and learning model was creative, daring, and deliberately provocative. It was also our first introduction to radical thinking and allowed us to set the scene and culture for real questioning in the higher education workplace.
