Call for Abstracts: Student Knowledge Exchange – Special Issue – Apr 1

Posted by Society for Research in Higher Education on February 24, 2026

Student Knowledge Exchange (SKE) denotes a multidisciplinary, co-created, student-led approach to learning through real-world projects, run in collaboration with external partners and facilitators as well as educators (Cotton et al., 2024). The Knowledge Exchange literature has been primarily concerned with questions of business and community stakeholder engagement and university partnerships, including the model of the ‘civic university’, rather than the roles of students and their learning activities (Jungblut & O’Shea, 2023). SKE as an emergent field engages directly with fundamental pedagogical questions (Dismore et al., 2024), intersecting with debates around authentic learning, service-learning and community-engaged learning (Aramburuzabala et al., 2019; Pitchford, 2021; Welch & Saltmarsh, 2023), as well as critical scholarship on employability, entrepreneurial competence, co-creation and inclusive education (Bacigalupo et al., 2016; Filippou et al., 2025; Omland et al., 2025; Scandurra et al., 2024). This Special Issue will provide a precise conceptualisation of SKE, as well as a comprehensive international examination of the current state of knowledge of the various SKE practices and outcomes in the context of contemporary higher education debates.

Abstract (up to 200 words) and proposal (max 1500 words) submission due 1 April 2026.

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