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• Engaging with the Student Voice Special Edition: Refreshing Practice and Theory – A reboot for 2025 and beyond

  Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025)

  While the concept of "student voice" has been in use since the 1990s, primarily within the school context, it has taken on a central role in higher education in recent years. Initially driven by the National Student Survey (NSS) in the early 2000s and later reinforced by the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) from 2017 onwards, student voice has evolved into a key element of institutional and educational development strategies.

  Beyond these sector-wide metrics, wider societal issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis have further reshaped how staff and students engage at every level, from institutional and departmental to modular. These shifts have prompted a re-evaluation of traditional practices, creating new opportunities and challenges for engaging with students in meaningful ways.

  As we look ahead, we hope that this issue sparks further exploration into the evolving concept of student voice and its application. Regular readers will know that each SEHEJ issue always includes at least one paper related to student voice, even when it is not the main focus. We see this special issue as the beginning of an ongoing conversation that will continue to develop in future issues, as the field of student engagement continues to grow and diversify.

• Building and valuing relationships

  Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025)

• Many ways to develop student engagement

  Vol. 5 No. 3 (2024)

  After a couple of themed issues, this issue captures a wide range of student engagement initiatives from different perspectives and contexts. AS regular readers know, student engagement is the core mission of the RAISE network, which aims to foster dialogue and collaboration among researchers, practitioners, students and policymakers who are interested in enhancing student participation and partnership in higher education. As the papers in this issue demonstrate, there are ways for everyone to get involved in student engagement, from curriculum design and assessment, to co-creation and co-research, to student voice and feedback, to staff development and recognition.

• Special Interest Groups Special Edition

  Vol. 5 No. 2 (2024)

  This special issue is guest edited by the RAISE Network Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Co-Convenors: Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and the Research and Evaluation (R&E) SIGs. 
  
  The two SIGs formed a Collaborative Writing project in late 2022 to provide colleagues, either as Early Careers Researchers in higher education or those new in student engagement from the RAISE community, an opportunity to work and publish student engagement-related topics. The project supports the development of this group of colleagues to demystify publication, increasing the confidence of learning how to come up with an idea (i.e., perhaps something they have been working on as part of their role daily) to write an article for publication in line with this journal’s developmental route. We are delighted to see this issue published as part of our work with early career researchers and those new to student engagement. Congratulations to all authors! 

• Student Engagement in the time of a Pandemic Part 2: Looking to the Future

  Vol. 5 No. 1 (2023)

  Our second volume of papers focusing on student engagement during the 2020-2022 Covid pandemic looks at what we have learned in terms of our ordinary practices. 

• Learning from students

  Vol. 4 No. 3 (2023)

• Student Engagement in the time of a Pandemic Part 1 : Empathy,  Energy and Achievement

  Vol. 4 No. 2 (2022)

• Encouraging student engagement

  Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022)

• Vol. 3 No. 2 (2021)

• Relationships, partnerships and identities

  Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020)

• Special Edition: Creativity in Student Engagement

  Vol. 2 No. 3 (2019)

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  Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)