TY - JOUR AU - Homer, Damien AU - Fitzmaurice, Lily Rose AU - Aderemi, Oluwalanaire AU - Prakash, Pula AU - de la Tour, Naomi AU - Macintyre, Mairi PY - 2023/05/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Taking off the academic ‘armour’: Exploring notions of co-creation within a selective UK university via a student-staff partnership. JF - Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal JA - The RAISE Journal VL - 4 IS - 3 SE - Case studies/Practice Pieces DO - UR - https://sehej.raise-network.com/raise/article/view/1138 SP - 136-149 AB - <p>This case study sought to explore notions of co-creation and co-creation practices, from both student and staff perspectives, at a single research-intensive university in central England.  The article explores and provides insight into how co-creation is understood and practiced at an institutional level. Students and staff at the University of Warwick co-led the research through a philosophy of partnership. The authors adopted a qualitative approach to the data, conducting twenty semi-structured interviews over several months. Interviewees included students and academic/professional services staff.  While noting the benefits of co-creation identified by our research participants, the paper suggests that the co-creation concept needs to be better understood through critical reflection and engagement to cultivate richer co-creative practices. The paper argues that a critical aspect of this engagement is openly acknowledging power implications in co-creative spaces within a Higher Education (HE) context.</p><p> </p> ER -