Student Staff Partnership Hub

The Student–Staff Partnership Hub is a central space for collaboration, innovation, and co-creation at Murdoch University. It showcases opportunities where students and staff can work together as colleagues, shaping teaching, learning, and university experience.

Partnerships between students and staff go beyond traditional consultation. They are built on shared responsibility, mutual respect, and the recognition that both groups bring valuable expertise. This hub provides resources, stories, and opportunities to foster those partnerships at Murdoch.

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What does partnership mean?

Partnership means working with each other, not for each other. It is about. transforming the university experience from something transactional, where students simply receive education, into something collaborative, where students and staff co-create knowledge and experiences.

Partnership is aspirational, and the more students and staff partner on projects or in decision-making, the more impact this has.

Inform
To provide students with information e.g. "We will keep you informed"

Consult
To obtain student feedback on decisions and processes e.g. "We will listen and acknowledge your opinions."

Involve
To work with students throughout decision making processes e.g. "We will work with you to ensure opinions are reflected in our decisions."

Collaborate
To partner with students in each aspect of decision making e.g. "We will look to you for advice and innovation as much as possible when making decisions."

Empower
To place decision making in students' hands e.g. "We will implement what you decide."

 

What’s in it for you?

For students

  • Amplify your voice by influencing decisions that shape learning, policy, and strategy.
  • Gain recognition, work experience and employability skills.
  • Earn academic credit or remuneration through select programs and roles.
  • Build community by fostering collaboration, inclusion, and respect with students and staff.
  • Drive innovation by generating creative ideas to improve the student experience.
  • Develop professional skills in teamwork, communication, leadership, and project management.

For staff

  • Enhance student learning by co-designing curriculum, teaching resources, and assessments.
  • Enhance student experience and engagement with university services by building in co-design elements to service offerings, models and approaches.

Partnership stories

Hear from students and staff who have worked together to create meaningful change at Murdoch.

I created this Hub to connect students and staff for partnership opportunities so that student voices are heard in an authentic way. This passion came from having multiple roles as a staff member at Murdoch while studying, which led to opportunities that other students don’t get.

Tara Innes

Tara Innes
As an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Student Partner, I get to manage my own equity-focused projects - like getting free period product dispensers installed in bathrooms. I've benefited from friendly relationships with staff, being taught new skills 1-on-1 and broadening my perspective.

Kelsie Dowley

Kelsie Dowley

Opportunities to participate

Discover the existing partnership opportunities available at Murdoch University.

Murdoch University’s governance framework provides the structures, decision-making bodies, and accountability mechanisms that guide how the institution operates and evolves.

From the Senate to the Academic Council, senior leadership and statutes/by-laws, governance ensures transparency, integrity, and strategic direction.

Student representation in governance is essential, and you can learn more about how Murdoch is governed and view your representatives here.

Murdoch University offers a range of student employment opportunities that allow students to gain professional experience while they study. Roles such as Peer Academic Coaches (PAC), Peer Assisted Study Session (PASS) Leaders, Student Wellbeing Ambassadors at The Den and Kulbardi K-Track mentors support student learning and success. Other employment opportunities, like Future Students and Outreach Ambassadors or Pathway Program Volunteers, help prospective and new students feel welcome at Murdoch. 

For current students, click here to access Murdoch’s internal job search page for current opportunities.

Murdoch Guild of Students is a not-for-profit organisation that serves, advocates for, and represents Murdoch students. The Guild offers a range of valuable partnership opportunities including being on the Executive Committee (paid and unpaid roles), volunteering or by signing up to be a member of a Guild Club and Society.  The Guild website also has a jobs board.

All Murdoch students who pay SSAF are automatically Guild members, gaining access to free student events, discounts, support services, and student representation.

The student voice helps shape Murdoch University and your input helps ensure that teaching, learning, and support services continue to evolve and improve. There are many ways to share your experiences, raise concerns, and contribute to positive change.  In 2026, the University will continue consultation on establishing a set of Student Voice Guidelines.  Further details about how to get involved will be promoted here shortly.

Matters relating to course quality are overseen by the Office of Quality and Standards – the University’s quality assurance and improvement process leads – who regularly seek to collaborate with students in focus groups and workshops.

Complaints are taken seriously and managed professionally.  For more information on making a formal complaint, visit the complaints webpage.  

You can provide feedback through student experience surveys, unit surveys, stakeholder consultations and focus groups.

Opportunities will appear here as they are made public.

Murdoch University continues to develops student-staff partnership opportunities. The Students as Change Agents program is a popular co-curricular program that empowers student to propose, lead and implement a project of their choosing, aimed at creating positive change at Murdoch. All enrolled students (including international and postgraduate students) are eligible to apply.

Fun fact: this Student Partnership Hub webpage is actually a result of the 2025 Change Agents.

MSP201 provides an opportunity for program involvement and, volunteer and service learning through engaging with a real-world learning experience (for a minimum of 40hours).  Choose an experience where you can follow your passion and learn to use your study knowledge and developing skills to make a difference. 

To be eligible for MSP201, students must organise their real world learning experience for a minimum of 40-hours and then, submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) - see the course detail page for more information.

Work Integrated Learning: gives students opportunities to learn how to integrate theory into practice, and is an important way to develop other transferable employability skills that help make the transition from university to the workplace. 

For other opportunities, such as student placements and volunteering, visit Work Integrated Learning for more information.

Contact us

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