Call for Submissions

We invite submissions for the Global Students as Partners Roundtable 2026, co-hosted by the University of Sydney Business School and the University of Sydney Faculty of Science.

This year’s roundtable is centred on the theme:

Living the Claims: Embedding Equity for Authentic Partnership in a Changing World

We welcome submissions that explore how students and staff work together to build more authentic, inclusive, and equitable partnerships across higher education. We are especially interested in contributions that invite dialogue, participation, reflection, and shared learning.

Sub-theme 1: Equity in partnership, inclusion without barriers

Partnership should be accessible, not limited to high achievers or confident voices. Let's surface questions about access, representation, and how SaP practices can include diverse and underrepresented students through intentional design and support.

Best fit if you are interested in

Removing barriers to participation
Designing inclusive SaP structures
Broadening who gets to be involved
Power, representation, and belonging in practice

Sub-theme 2: From project to practice in partnership

This theme explores how partnership can be embedded into the everyday rhythms of university life - beyond special projects or select students. It invites reflection on how partnership aligns with the core purpose of universities as collaborative, future-facing communities, and how we can create space for diverse participation at scale.

Best fit if you are interested in

Moving beyond one-off SaP projects
Building sustainable partnership models
Scaling participation while keeping it meaningful
What partnership looks like in day-to-day teaching and improvement
Structures, roles, and practices that sustain SaP over time
Balancing scale, quality, and diverse participation

Sub-theme 3: Navigating change and the unknown

Partnership can guide how we respond to uncertainty and emerging challenges. This theme explores how partnership can guide our collective imagining of the unknown, whether this is AI’s role in education, changing assessments, inviting students and staff to co-create ethical, inclusive, and future-focused responses.

Best fit if you are interested in

Using partnership to respond to uncertainty
Co-creating ethical and future-focused practices
AI, assessment change, and emerging challenges
Principles and processes for ethical co-creation
Designing for adaptability, inclusion, and trust

Submission formats

We are using a time-block based submission model to support a wide range of presentation styles and levels of interaction.

You may submit for one of the following session lengths:

20 minutes
40 minutes
60 minutes

Rather than prescribing fixed formats, we invite participants to propose how they would like to use their allocated time. This may include presentations, workshops, conversations, interactive activities, creative sessions, or other forms of engagement.

What to submit

We welcome a wide range of submission forms and genres, and hope the examples below are helpful as inspiration. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, dialogue-based sessions, interactive workshops, panel conversations, storytelling sessions, reflective presentations, practice showcases, creative or object-based engagements, discussion-led provocations, emerging ideas or works in progress, object learning groups, or speculative fiction. Bring your creative ideas to us, and we will make it work!

We encourage contributions that draw on different pedagogies, ways of knowing, and forms of expression, and that help create a space where the playing field is levelled and students can contribute as fully as academics. We welcome submissions that invite thoughtful discussion of both the possibilities and the challenges of student-staff partnership, including the tensions and paradoxes that often emerge when partnership is enacted in practice.

We hope this roundtable will bring together diverse voices, experiences, and approaches to student-staff partnership. We invite submissions that are thoughtful, participatory, and open to dialogue, and that help us imagine how equity can be embedded in partnership in ways that are authentic, practical, and forward-looking.

Template for submission

Download the template for the submission here: SAP-roundtable-template_RT2026

You will be asked to attach this document as part of your submission.

Submission Portal (close on the 29th June 2026)

Submit your proposal, including the template here: Global Students as Partners Roundtable 2026 Submission

(You will be asked to sign in using your Google account to upload the submission. If you perceive any challenges in doing that, please reach out to us directly at SaP-roundtable.2026@sydney.edu.au)

We encourage submissions from students, staff, and student-staff teams. Co-presented and co-designed submissions are warmly welcomed.

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