Re‑centring Student Partnership in Contemporary Higher Education

This edition of Student Engagement in Higher Education brings together scholarship that approaches student engagement not as a fixed or easily measurable outcome, but as a contested, relational, and deeply political practice. Collectively, these papers invite readers to reconsider how engagement is conceptualised, who defines it, and whose knowledge is legitimised within higher education. Collectively, the contributions in this issue reaffirm the importance of relational, wellbeing-informed, and partnership-based approaches in creating conditions where student engagement can be sustained, meaningful, and transformative.