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Student Voice(s) on the Enactment of the Research-Teaching Nexus

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This chapter offers a students’-eye view of the relationship between teaching and research through a meta-analysis of enquiries undertaken by student researchers in nine disciplinary areas in which students interviewed academics about their perceptions of the research-teaching nexus. Analysis of these investigations reveals a range of views held by academics (even within the same department) about the value of linking teaching and research. The analysis also demonstrates the value of partnering ‘students-as-researchers’ rather than simply conducting ‘research on students’. As a consequence of considering students as partners here, we offer a modification to the idea that the scholarship of teaching should necessarily be student-centred, but rather that students and staff should share a discipline-centred gaze.

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This project was supported in part through the King’s-Warwick Project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

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    Ian M. Kinchin

  2. Centre for Higher Education Research & Scholarship, Imperial College, London, UK

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Kinchin, I.M., Kandiko Howson, C.B. (2019). Student Voice(s) on the Enactment of the Research-Teaching Nexus. In: Lygo-Baker, S., Kinchin, I., Winstone, N. (eds) Engaging Student Voices in Higher Education . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20824-0_17

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