Learning to learn: developing students’ research skills in a long-term collaboration between library and faculty Damian Gleeson, Andrew Junor and Susan Mayson

Student engagement and success in higher education are dependent on high-quality learning experiences that meet the needs of diverse student cohorts. We describe how leveraging the expertise of library and academic staff through a sustained collaborative teaching partnership has motivated student learning. The collaboration involved designing and delivering a series of unit-specific, embedded academic skill development workshops for students completing a Management Master’s unit. The workshops and the teaching collaboration were underpinned by the research skill development (RSD) framework and focused on the academic skills that students would require to complete the key assessment tasks. The RSD framework provided educators with a shared language and themeans to articulate common learning objectives. The effectiveness of the RSD to guide the teaching partnership, inform the workshop design and increase student motivation for learning has been the key to sustaining the longevity and success of this collaboration.