1. 2012 - 13 CELT Support team: Professor Stuart Brand Luke Millard Paul Chapman Mercedes Chambers

2. Introductions • Name • Faculty • The SAP Project you are working on

3. Revisiting our partnership ethos • Generating the Learning Community across 8 Campuses • (From consistent NSS/SES Feedback) • Co-creation of the learning experience - Recipient / Consumer / Participant / Collaborator • Activities are student led and delivering at the interface! • Partnership with the Students’ Union • Secondment of SU’s Head of Engagement • Joint SU : University working groups • Partnership dialogue

4. Partnership on the national scale • Debunking the consumerist model • The broadening debate on Student Engagement • The evolution of Student Partnerships • The emerging role of students • HEA / QAA / NUS Focus • NUS Manifesto for Partnership • HEA Student Involvement • Higher Education Academy ‘Students as Partners’ with BCU • BCU Partners for Success Activity – Sector Leading

5. Partnership at BCU A change of culture: • Student Academic Partners • Student Academic Mentors • Student Employment • OpportUNIty Student Jobs on Campus • Collaborative Projects • LIHE Book on BCU Student Engagement

6. How did we get to this point? • Institutional support • Funding from CELT • Building on best practice • CBS student assistants’ scheme • Northwest Missouri State University • University of Pittsburgh research bids • Series of dissemination activities • QAA / HEA / NUS / Other Universities / Conferences • SAP Year 4

7. SAPs in Numbers NB. 2012/13 Mentoring & Collaborative Project schemes running separately

8. SAPS The Process • Application& Approval – SAP Team • Induction – SAP Team • Project Development – Project Teams • Marketplace Events – All • Evaluation & Dissemination - All

9. Your role • Partnership between staff and students • Power / Status / Responsibility • Employment alongside studies • Change agents – new ways of working • Student voice in academic development • Advice on further development • More than the sum of the parts – a cohort • Evaluation and dissemination

10. Support • Cohort (talk to us) • SAP Project team support • On-going evaluation and support activities via visits • SAP Website: www.bcusu.com/saps

11. Project support and evaluation • ‘Marketplace’ sessions • ‘Show and tell’ and evaluation activity • Networking • Sharing Challenges & Solutions • Show and Tell • Themed approach • Compulsory to attend at least two sessions • Dates TBC starting 2013

12. Project support and evaluation • Project reporting – brief reflection on outcomes and experiences of students and staff on your project • End of year summary • Poster Template • SAP Roadshows • Share any artefacts with us for dissemination • Think about publications, dissemination opportunities • Extra funding – capacity building in faculties

13. The Important Bit: Getting Paid! • You will be employed by the Students’ Union • Maximum of 100 hours at £10 per hour per project (includes holiday) • Payment subject to Tax and National Insurance contributions • Eligibility to work in the UK alongside your studies • 2 Forms: New Starter Form & P45 or P46 • Identification: Copy of Passport (Inc. Visa / Yellow Card) • Deadline for registration is Friday 30th November 2012

14. Eligibility to work • UK / EU Citizens: • No restrictions • Romania & Bulgaria – Yellow Card • Non-UK / EU Citizens: • Visa dependant: 10 or 20 hours per week max • More than one job and/or volunteering will count • You will still need a National Insurance number and a UK bank account • Both categories will need to provide ID evidence

15. Timesheets • To be done electronically via email • Complete your timesheet weekly • Tax & NI increase the more hours you claim • E-mail your ‘hours’ to your staff academic partner • Staff partner to then email: kelly.bartlett@bcu.ac.uk • Email will be taken as authorisation

16. Timesheets • Payments are processed weekly • Timesheets that are submitted by 5pm on a Monday will be paid on the Friday of that week • Any later and your payment may not be processed until the following week • Monitor your ‘allowance’

17. Please Claim! Why? • To share out resources • Financial monitoring • To fund other activity • Progress reporting • This is employment therefore you get paid! We will chase but we’d rather not!

18. Contacts Paul Chapman, Head of Engagement, Students’ Union paul.chapman@bcu.ac.uk Luke Millard, Head of Learning Partnerships luke.millard@bcu.ac.uk Professor Stuart Brand, Director of Learning & Teaching stuart.brand@bcu.ac.uk Mercedes Chambers, Graduate Intern mercedes.chambers@bcu.ac.uk