Dear HELTASA members

We are excited to invite you to the Students as Partners Roundtable 2025, hosted by the Designing for Social Justice Partnership Programme (DSJP) , which is a UCDP collaborative initiative funded by the Department for Higher Education and Training and is a Special Project of HELTASA. This event, themed “Advancing Social Justice and Decolonisation in Student-Staff Partnerships: A Global South Focus,” will take place from the 2nd to the 3rd of October 2025 at CPUT’s Granger Bay Campus in Cape Town, South Africa.

 Focus Areas:

• Social justice, decolonisation, and student-staff partnerships
• Global South perspectives and African theories
• Opportunities and challenges in resource-constrained contexts

Call for Submissions: We invite student and staff teams to submit abstracts for panel discussions or poster presentations centering on social justice and decolonisation in student-staff partnerships.

• Poster Presentation: 10-minute presentation in person (30 minutes with Q&A)
• Online Panels: 3 papers per panel (50 minutes total, including Q&A)
• In-Person Panels: Same format as online panels

 Key Dates:

• Submission Deadline: 30th June 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: Week commencing 28th July 2025
• Registration Opens: 24th August 2025 and closes on 15th September 2025

 Submit Your Abstract: To submit your abstract, please click here: Submission Link

 Location: The roundtable will take place at CPUT’s Granger Bay Campus, Beach Road, Mouille Point, Cape Town. For accessibility information, contact dsjpevents@uct.ac.za 

 Publication Opportunity: Selected participants will be invited to submit their papers for the Special Section on Student-Staff Partnerships in the Global South in the International Journal for Students as Partners by 31st January 2026.

For more details, visit: https://www.cput.ac.za/dsjp/events/roundtable/global-sap-roundtable 

We look forward to your participation in advancing the conversation around student-staff partnerships in the Global South.

Best regards,

DSJP Team