This document discusses staff-student partnerships in academic research. It describes a project investigating how students in the arts and social sciences use technology for inquiry-based learning. Students were involved from the initial bid stage and formed a student ambassador network and working groups to engage in the research process. The research aims to understand how students use technology for formal and informal inquiry learning. It also examines issues of power, whose benefit the research serves, and whether students are "good enough" partners in academic research.