Giving ourselves the edge: capitalising on collaboration
This paper considers the collaboration of academics and third-space professionals to create an enrichment programme in an English university. It briefly outlines the programme and explores student engagement and reaction to it before identifying tentative short-term outcomes associated with it: inc...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE)
2025-01-01
|
| Series: | Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/article/view/1213 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1832576292748263424 |
|---|---|
| author | Jill Hanson Alison Pope Carolina Salinas |
| author_facet | Jill Hanson Alison Pope Carolina Salinas |
| author_sort | Jill Hanson |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description |
This paper considers the collaboration of academics and third-space professionals to create an enrichment programme in an English university. It briefly outlines the programme and explores student engagement and reaction to it before identifying tentative short-term outcomes associated with it: increases in self-reported self-confidence, academic, digital, professional, and leadership skills. The programme created space and time for academics and third-space professionals to come together, share their knowledge, and recognise each other’s expertise to manifest ‘knotworking’ (Veles, 2022). A project lead with experience of being an academic and a third-space professional helped to facilitate understanding and develop ‘ingroup’ features such as a sense of shared connection, co-operation, mutual help, and respect for each other. We conclude that an evolving framework of third-space professionals which is firmly part of the real institutional fabric leads to less reliance on project-based reinventions and instead fosters a steady rate of beneficial progress for the entire learning community.
|
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-97f67e3d0b2344ecb4b5732fcb69b53d |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 1759-667X |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2025-01-01 |
| publisher | Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education |
| spelling | doaj-art-97f67e3d0b2344ecb4b5732fcb69b53d2025-01-31T07:56:44ZengAssociation for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE)Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education1759-667X2025-01-013310.47408/jldhe.vi33.1213Giving ourselves the edge: capitalising on collaboration Jill Hanson0Alison Pope1Carolina Salinas2https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9538-1919Regent’s College LondonStaffordshire UniversityStaffordshire University This paper considers the collaboration of academics and third-space professionals to create an enrichment programme in an English university. It briefly outlines the programme and explores student engagement and reaction to it before identifying tentative short-term outcomes associated with it: increases in self-reported self-confidence, academic, digital, professional, and leadership skills. The programme created space and time for academics and third-space professionals to come together, share their knowledge, and recognise each other’s expertise to manifest ‘knotworking’ (Veles, 2022). A project lead with experience of being an academic and a third-space professional helped to facilitate understanding and develop ‘ingroup’ features such as a sense of shared connection, co-operation, mutual help, and respect for each other. We conclude that an evolving framework of third-space professionals which is firmly part of the real institutional fabric leads to less reliance on project-based reinventions and instead fosters a steady rate of beneficial progress for the entire learning community. https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/article/view/1213third space professionalsknotworkingenrichment |
| spellingShingle | Jill Hanson Alison Pope Carolina Salinas Giving ourselves the edge: capitalising on collaboration Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education third space professionals knotworking enrichment |
| title | Giving ourselves the edge: capitalising on collaboration |
| title_full | Giving ourselves the edge: capitalising on collaboration |
| title_fullStr | Giving ourselves the edge: capitalising on collaboration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Giving ourselves the edge: capitalising on collaboration |
| title_short | Giving ourselves the edge: capitalising on collaboration |
| title_sort | giving ourselves the edge capitalising on collaboration |
| topic | third space professionals knotworking enrichment |
| url | https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/article/view/1213 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT jillhanson givingourselvestheedgecapitalisingoncollaboration AT alisonpope givingourselvestheedgecapitalisingoncollaboration AT carolinasalinas givingourselvestheedgecapitalisingoncollaboration |