{"id":546,"date":"2016-10-06T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/?p=546"},"modified":"2016-10-06T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T12:40:19","slug":"co-creation-group-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/sacaca-project\/2016\/10\/co-creation-group-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-Creation Group: Explained!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/05\/Question-mark.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-368\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/05\/Question-mark-238x300.png\" alt=\"Now that you've been introduced, what exactly is the Co-Design Group?\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/05\/Question-mark-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/05\/Question-mark-700x884.png 700w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/05\/Question-mark.png 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now that you&#8217;ve been introduced, what exactly is the Co-Design Group?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, hopefully, to many new readers of the blog after our fantastic first EVER co-designed induction conference for Business Management Students. A huge amount of credit must go to Zak Rakrouki, who incidentally is also the editor of this blog, and his dedication to making the event as successful as it was. I for one hope you all enjoyed your experience, even if it involved having to sit through a 6 minute video featuring yours truly\u2026I can promise you that you didn\u2019t find it as tortuous as I did.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the fantastic enterprise announcement, with thanks to Boeing, we also took the time to talk to you about the Co-Creation group in the Business School. This is fantastic group, and I have loved every second I have been a part of it. This year you are all very lucky to be offered the opportunity to join the group, but I am aware it may require some explanation so you are aware of what you might be signing up to!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The co-creation group currently has 10 student members, all in second year, and 8 doing Business courses. The two \u201cimposters\u201d if you like, are Tom Rowledge and I, who both study Web Science. As well as students, the group also contains a number of academic staff. Primarily, Dr Mark Gatenby, Dr Stefan Cantore and Dr Lisa Harris. We aim to meet approximately once a week for two hours formally, and then hopefully some informal chats as well. As I mentioned above, the group is looking to expand both with third year members, and with new first year members. To help with this, I thought best to try and explain clearly, with the help of Zak, exactly what the Co-Creation group does:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aims to create a \u201cLearning Environment\u201d in Southampton Business School, both on and offline. This involves running the blog and the Social Media feeds (which you should all now hopefully be familiar with) but also creating events for students, such as field trips and socials.<\/li>\n<li>Aims to get a student voice heard in academia, and have a real and clear impact on what is being taught. The opportunity to meet so frequently with the very lecturers who are delivering sessions on your course, and to offer them feedback, suggestions and help them develop new ideas is unmatched anywhere else in the University. The group goes beyond simply \u201chearing\u201d the student voice, it actually welcomes the student voice to the academic discussion. I appreciate this can sound a bit wishy-washy, so I can give you an example of the assignments for MANG1018 and MANG1020. We as a group felt like the assignments were not enthusing the students to learn and to work hard. Therefore, working with Mark and Stefan (as opposed to just giving them feedback) we developed new assignments, that hopefully you as students will see the benefit of.<\/li>\n<li>Aims to develop students as researchers. This aim is arguably the most exciting. To explain, you have to bear in mind that the Co-Creation group is a cutting-edge development in Higher Education Teaching. This therefore means that the group is a form of research into the effectiveness of students engaging as partners in higher education development. Therefore, who is better placed to do this research, than the students themselves? This has resulted in Tom and I being lucky enough to write a published paper, and many of the group to attend conferences from Toronto to Amsterdam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s my attempt to synthesise the aims of the group, which are so broad it actually makes my head hurt to try and summarise them even to the length where you wouldn\u2019t fall asleep reading. However, if even one half of one of the three areas I talked about above interests you, you must come to the networking event in the Bridge Bar, in the Student Union on Friday. You should have all received an EventBrite invitation to this (If not, you can sign up here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/co-design-networking-and-information-event-tickets-28375368491\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/co-design-networking-and-information-event-tickets-28375368491<\/a>). This is the absolute best way to learn more about the group, the people involved and to register your interest in joining. If you still want to learn more, I can point you to the blog (can I? Because chances are you\u2019re actually reading this on the blog\u2026so ignore that!). On the blog, scroll up to the top, and on the menu hit \u201cSACACA Project Progress\u201d. This will take you to a more length summary of the project so far, and contains some more of the academic literature. You can also scroll back through the blog to read more about what we\u2019ve been up to, or just drop an email to either Zak or myself at busprogs@soton.ac.uk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Look forward to meeting you tomorrow, Tom!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Welcome, hopefully, to many new readers of the blog after our fantastic first EVER co-designed induction conference for Business Management Students. A huge amount of credit must go to Zak Rakrouki, who incidentally is also the editor of this blog, and his dedication to making the event as successful as it was. 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