MCSHE Collaboration and Partnership Professional Program

Do you find academic collaboration and partnership challenging? MCSHE’s Collaboration and Partnership professional development program provides practical tools and frameworks for university staff and relevant stakeholders to engage and build collaborative partnership.

The Workshops:

The workshops will draw on the Collaboration and Partnership Handbook, a 12 modules toolkit developed by the learning and teaching award winner, Dr Siew-Fang Law at the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education.

Workshop A: Contextual Assessment

• Should you engage or not engage? Weighing out the pros and cons.
• Differences between university engagement and other forms of stakeholder engagement
• Shifting landscapes and changing ecosystem

Workshop B: Stakeholder Mapping

• Scanning the shifting university-stakeholder engagement landscape
• Mapping stakeholders and understanding complex stakeholder dynamic, both internal and external
• Conducting your stakeholder analysis
• Considering knowledge transfer, knowledge exchange and knowledge co-creation

Workshop C: Co-design and Co-create

• Establishing co-commitment and co-identifying the ‘problem’ you want to address
• Design thinking approach
• Co-designing your project
• Managing expectations

Workshop D: Managing complex relationships

• Negotiating differences
• Resolving disagreements
• Evaluating the quality of collaboration
• Developing your personal, short- and long-term engagement plan

Please note that each month the workshops are designed specifically for a different career stage.

March 7-10 – Graduate Researchers

April 4-7 – Early Career Academics

May 2-5 – Mid-Career and Senior Academics

June 6-9 – Professional Staff

More information and registration: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/melbourne-CSHE/all/search/%22Collaboration%20and%20Partnership%22

Enquiries: melbourne-cshe@unimelb.edu.au