Breaking ranks: forging partnership across boundaries of discipline and status

This paper employs the ‘Partnership Values’ elucidated in the HEA’s Framework for Partnership in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education as a critical framework for reflective analysis on the cross-disciplinary, staff-student project, Taking Race Live (Kingston University, 2014-15). While I touch on all the values, my main focus is on inclusivity, reciprocity and empowerment. I will examine how the project team initially interpreted these terms, how we came to understand them better through their practical application within our project methodology and how we are taking them forward in the various follow-up activities to which Taking Race Live gave birth