Associate Professor Tai PESETA
Associate Professor, Learning & Teaching,
Learning & Teaching Portfolio, Division of Education & Students
Western Sydney University (WSU), Australia
In this episode, we are pleased to speak with Associate Professor Tai PESETA, the Educator-in-Residence for 2025, who shared her perspectives on student-staff partnerships, its use case as well as describing the intentions, processes, outcomes, and impact of such an educational partnership.
This episode is chaired by Associate Professor Stephen TAY En Rong, Associate Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT), as well as Associate Professor at the Department of the Built Environment, College of Design and Engineering.
A Conversation with Educator-in-Residence (EiR) for 2025 Assoc Prof Tai PESETA: On Cultivating Student-Staff Partnerships in Higher Education
(24min 07sec) | Full Transcript
Highlights from Assoc Prof Tai’s conversation include:
- The contextual and pedagogical factors that motivated Assoc Prof Tai to embark on her exploration of student-staff partnerships
- The process in which student-staff partnerships were implemented in Assoc Prof Tai’s campus, Western Sydney University, and the extent to which intended pedagogical outcomes were achieved
- What NUS colleagues can do and consider if they intend to explore and engage in student-staff partnerships in their respective pedagogical contexts.
For more resources about Assoc Prof Peseta’s visit to NUS, please refer to this infographic which captures key learning points from the various EiRP events.
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Tai PESETA is Associate Professor, Learning & Teaching in the Division of Education and Students at Western Sydney University (WSU) in Australia. She joined WSU in 2017 as one of the Academic Leads of the curriculum transformation project—21C—following academic appointments at the universities of Sydney, Melbourne, and La Trobe. She is an experienced researcher, PhD supervisor, and teacher in the field of higher education studies with particular interests in how ideas of the university manifest in a range of academic practices that are often assumed to be settled: student-staff partnership, higher education curriculum, academic development, doctoral education and supervision, and the scholarship of teaching and learning—all areas she has published in extensively. Her more recent research focuses on the discursive politics of student-staff partnership and its connection to contradictory ideas of the university. Tai is an experienced journal editor and editorial board member—with previous roles in the journals Higher Education Research & Development, Teaching in Higher Education, International Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and The International Journal for Academic Development. She has edited several collections, Academic Life in the Measured University: pleasures, paradoxes, and politics (with Simon Barrie and Jan Mclean), Curriculum as Contestation (with Suellen Shay), and, Promoting Transformative and Academic Change in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, and holds a Senior Fellowship from Advance HE (SFHEA); is a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Higher Education Leadership & Policy Studies at Education University of Hong Kong, and an Adjunct in the Sydney School of Education, University of Sydney. Tai has nearly 30 years’ experience working in the field of, and writing critically about, academic development—across learning and teaching, and research supervision development—and she has been awarded and recognised for that work. Check out Tai’s LinkedIn page to learn more about her practice. |
