Planting the seed of a staff-student partnership research project

This essay is a reflection on the planting of the first seed of a staff-student research partnership. Our partnership aimed to grow the profile of partnerships at our Australian University while simultaneously evaluating the efficacy of peer-to-peer (P2P) revision sessions in a newly implemented Medical Imaging (MI) course. We also sought to achieve these two aims through the development of a research project to evaluate the P2P revision sessions that were initiated by Sophie, the student member of this partnership; and through the sharing of our experiences of the partnership process through critical reflective journals over the course of the partnership. We hope that both of these processes will inform the structure of future P2P revision sessions and also provide others with insights into the partnership process that may assist them to plant their own partnership seeds. Our partnership began only a few months ago when we were introduced by a colleague.