University partner for our placement/assignment not pulling weight

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For one of my assignments at university we have been put into pairs for a project which involves sending emails and questionnaires out to external people.

I drafted and sent our introductory email, and have now drafted the questionnaire and an email to go alongside it. We went through it together over Teams and there was no gratitude or acknowledge that I'd spent time putting it all together, just a few critical comments. At the end of the call my partner told me to email it, I said I'd draft an email first and get them to take a look and mentioned I would be out all day so wouldn't be able to send it and could they. They said no, I can do it when I get home.

I feel frustrated because I feel like I've been doing everything for them, and it just seems a poor start to the project. They're a mature student and it feels like they're acting like they're in charge/they're my manager.

I know it's petty but it's really annoying me, and I want them to send the questionnaires out so they've done some 'part' of it rather than relinquishing it all to me. It's a long-term university project that we'll be doing for the next year or so together.

I've also disagreed with some of their points but again they just dismiss my comments as if they know better as they have some relevant work experience. For example, for the questionnaire they've asked for all respondents to reply within a few days. They're busy professionals and I think we should give them longer, there's no real urgency to their replies as we won't be using their replies until later on in the project (around March time).

University lecturer here, I would personally do the work so you know it's done well, but keep a record of your contributions, perhaps in a shared document, so that your partner can see it too. This will be helpful down the road if you need to raise the issue with your lecturer/tutor about lack of contribution. Speaking from my end of it, we are well aware of these sorts of students who don't engage much and try to coast on through on the efforts of everyone else. You want a good mark, so do the work to the best of your ability, but don't hesitate to make it known to whoever needs to know that they have been less than helpful with completing the work. It probably won't be a surprise to whoever is leading the module/project.

As for dates, I would give them a time frame, say a week to complete it, because people do act faster if they have a deadline. But expect to follow up with them maybe after 1 week and again maybe a month later to any non-responders.

As above but also track changes to any and all documents