A planned diamond open-access journal — free to read, free to publish — for critical scholarship on co-creation, partnership and power in higher education.
Born from NTLSN. Name, editorial board and publishing partner still to be confirmed — we're designing it in the open, with the people it's for.
Every other partnership journal stops at acknowledgement. We make it formal: students are named, credited and recognised as partners in the scholarship itself — carrying portable recognition for the contribution they actually made. That's the missing link, made explicit.
A journal about partnership can't be written about students from a tower. So congruence runs through everything:
Student and staff co-editors share editorial authority — not advisory seats, real decision-making.
Paired review: one academic, one student, each with a defined and equal domain of expertise.
Work is co-authored, and each contribution is visible — including the student's, by name.
Review here is scaffolding, not gatekeeping — designed to develop authors, and to give the student reviewer's voice equal weight.
We'll invite work that moves past celebratory partnership narratives to the structural and critical realities of co-creation:
Formats: empirical articles · conceptual papers · partnership reflections (co-authored by staff & students). No article processing charges, ever.
We're recruiting founding editors — including students as absolute equals. No prior publishing experience needed; we'll mentor you in.
Equal executive authority with an academic co-EIC — strategy, final decisions, representing the journal.
Guide manuscripts through the pipeline, match paired reviewers, facilitate dialogic synthesis.
Hold methodological and literature rigour while sharing power, genuinely, with student leadership.
Join the paired-review pool and help set what constructive, developmental feedback looks like.