The development of contemporary student engagement practices at the university of Winchester and Winchester student union, UK

This case study explores practice in four areas of Student Engagement activity, developed in partnership between the University of Winchester and Winchester Student Union. The development, motivations, stakeholders and challenges of activities built around the principles of Representation, Change, Feedback and Research are discussed. Relationships between practices will be explored in the context of a proposal for how discrete practices can complement one another to create a community of partnership. The case study focuses on four key initiatives: Student Academic Representatives; Student Fellows Scheme; Student-Led Teaching Awards; and the Winchester Research Apprenticeship Programme. This is contextualised with a discussion of an on-going project to provide greater coherence to student engagement through an institution-wide movement towards embedding partnership.