For this edition of the CPP seminar series we're very pleased to welcome Donna Smith, who will be giving a talk entitled 'Working with POLIS students as partners: opportunities and challenges – a work in progress paper'.

One way in which student community can be engendered is by working with ‘students as partners’ in their learning: students work with academics and each other to create and extend their learning, which in turn has a positive impact on student community and retention. This presentation discusses the opportunities and challenges of working with students as partners within a Politics and International Studies (POLIS) HE disciplinary context. In particular, it summarises an Open University POLIS student engagement project, part of the University’s partnership with UK Parliament.