University of Westminster Student Partnership Framework

This framework is an invitation to students and staff to reflect on their relationships, roles, assumptions, power, and identities in higher education. It is an invitation to start thinking about how you can initiate the changes you want to see at Westminster. Most importantly, it is an invitation to work in partnership and to form decolonial and socially just relationships. In this framework, we provide you with our understanding of partnership, hoping it will inspire you to reflect on your own understanding and experiences of it. We also provide a list of questions to reflect on when you are in partnership or considering partnership work with the hope that they will help you engage with challenges that might arise. We offer you our partnership values as an invitation to think about your own values and how these shape your partnership relationships. Finally, to give you insight into how partnership is lived and practiced at the University of Westminster and beyond, we offer some examples of partnership projects and efforts, hoping these will inspire your partnerships