About the journal
Aims and scope
This journal demonstrates and disseminates good practice, new perspectives and innovation around teaching, learning, student services and the student experience, where students and staff (academic and professional services) are working in partnership to enhance all aspects of higher education, with a particular focus on responding to student voice and feedback.
Practice can be local or large scale and can include students-as-partners work on: exploring and scaffolding partnership work; effective responses to student voice; benefits and limitations of generative AI; academic support and development; employability; sustainability; assessment and feedback; widening participation, access and inclusion; engagement; wellbeing and belonging, and more.
All article types will be considered, including original research, case studies, commentary, opinions, and book reviews. There will be an active encouragement and prioritisation for articles co-written by students and staff, and all submissions are subject to a review process that involves both students and staff.
The journal will appeal to any member of staff or student in a higher education context, interested in learning about and making changes to the university experience, where the diverse backgrounds and expertise of students are valued equally with those of staff.
Readers of the journal will discover novel approaches to apply to their own contexts, whether new to, or experienced in student-staff partnership and voice work.
The journal is published once per year, with special editions as needed.
Indexing
The UCL Open Access Student Journals programme works with subject specific indexers to deposit published articles in relevant repositories and search databases. Articles published in The Journal for Student-Staff Partnership and Voice in Higher Education will be indexed in the following:
- Google Scholar
- OpenAIRE
- Portico digital archive
- UCL Discovery
Open access policy
All articles published in The Journal for Student-Staff Partnership and Voice in Higher Education are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) 4.0 international licence agreement (read the licence here) and published open access, making them immediately and freely available to read and download. The CC-BY licence agreement allows authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of the work.
Further information regarding this can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 and licensing terms and conditions can be found in the UCL Open Access Student Journals Editorial Policy
Peer review
The Journal for Student-Staff Partnership and Voice in Higher Education operates double blind peer review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during review. Authors should submit an anonymous version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review.
Further information regarding peer review can be found on the editorial policy pages.
Article publication charges (APC)
UCL Open Access Student Journals do not levy an Article-Processing Charge (APC) for submission or publication in The Journal for Student-Staff Partnership and Voice in Higher Education. Contributors to The Journal for Student-Staff Partnership and Voice in Higher Education will not be required to make an APC payment for submission or publication of their article.
Journal information
ISSN: TBC
Mailing address:
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Contact: To contact the journal Editorial team, please fill out the contact form here https://student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/student-partnership-and-voice/contact