SaP Round Table 2025
Exploring the possibilities and tensions in student-staff partnerships and social justice work in Higher Education
Students as Partners Roundtable 2025 part 1, University of Westminster
25th to 27th June 2025, University of Westminster, London, UK
artwork by Raquel Durán
The Westminster Student Partnership team are thrilled to host part one of the first international Students as Partners Roundtable 2025. Already established for over a decade in Australia this is the first time the event will be held internationally.
At the University of Westminster student partnership work is grounded in social justice. We strive to ask radical questions, centre minoritised groups and challenge traditional knowledge creation approaches. This work takes form through our Students as Co-Creators (SCC) programme and our Pedagogies for Social Justice (PSJ) project. Recently, there has been growing interest in exploring links between partnerships and social justice work. Practical and theoretical work has been taking place globally and we are seeing the emergence of fruitful discussions about the role of partnerships in anti-racist, decolonial and feminist work. Our event will bring student and staff internationally into dialogue about these issues.
In addition to being the first international Students as Partners roundtable, it is the first cross-continental roundtable. We will be hosting in collaboration with three universities in South Africa: University of Cape Town, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and University of Western Cape. The London event will take place in June 2025 and the South African event will take place later in 2025.
The roundtable offers students and staff a unique opportunity to lead social justice and student partnership conversations internationally and facilitate and connect to a global network. Adopting the international spirit of the roundtable, we are planning a variety of events and streaming modes for workshops and watch parties for keynote addresses. The roundtable consists of highly interactive and creative workshops that explore how we work through student-staff partnership modes to bring about change. Workshops will be delivered by teams of students and staff who will work together to design and develop the content and materials.
If you have any questions about the roundtable, please contact us at studentpartnership@westminster.ac.uk.