Community University Partnership Programme Blog

Blog #7 Knowledge Exchange Trip: Florescer by Bethan Prosser

My last visit in Sao Paulo was to the first trans homeless shelter in Brazil, named Florescer (to bloom /flower), which opened 4 months ago. I visited with Denise, one of the professors setting up the Gender Identity clinic at UNIFESP, and Eduardo, Phd student doing research with the trans homeless community. It was impressive to meet…

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Blog #5 Knowledge Exchange Trip: UNIFESP School of Nursing by Bethan Prosser

Fresh from the homeless shelter and songs of love, I found my way to the federal university of Sao Paulo: UNIFESP. There are many campuses around the city and this health site is located right next to one of the main hospitals. I met a number of academics and professionals connected with the nursing school…

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Blog #3 Knowledge Exchange Trip: Labmovel in Sao Paulo, Bethan Prosser

Everywhere you go in Sao Paulo, there’s graffiti – ranging from ambitious large art works to tags that are undecipherable to the untrained eye.  It therefore feels appropriate that my first meeting with a ‘community partner’ was with an urban art and digital technology project, Labmovel. The lead for this work, Gisela Domshke, has worked…

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Blog #2 Knowledge Exchange Trip in Sao Paulo

I’ve sat down to write my first blog in Brazil and wondering how to explain Sao Paulo…and suddenly an incredible bird with large black and white tail feathers has flown down into the garden to look at me. I keep getting this strange mix in Sao Paulo – the familiar everyday life of any city,…

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Blog #1 Knowledge Exchange Trip to Brazil

On Tuesday I will be going to a region of the world I’ve never been to before and I have that glorious mixed feeling of nervousness and excitement! I will be flying to Brazil and undertaking a knowledge exchange trip focused on community-university partnerships (CUPs), supported by a Santander Travel Grant. I plan to make…

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Eastbourne Exchange Event 2016 – Quick reflections blog!

This year our annual Cupp Digest transformed into the Eastbourne Exchange Event! It was a great first event that brought students, staff, residents and local practitioners together to celebrate the community oriented life of the campus. Because the exchange brought so many different aspects of community-university activities, it’s actually quite a challenge to sum up and…

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Session at the resilience forum: using the ‘miracle question’ to develop a vision and strategy

http://www.boingboing.org.uk/index.php/our-blog/262-future-vision-blog This is a really nice blog by Becky Heaver from a session I facilitated at the Resilience Forum

VIDEO COLLECTION OF TRAINING IN COMMUNITY BASED RESEARCH

Dear Colleagues, The UNESCO Chair in CBR, in partnership with the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia are pleased to share new resources on training in Community-Based Research.  These products are some of the outcomes of the SSHRC funded ‘Building the Next Generation of Community-based Researchers (“The NextGen…

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Please donate to the The Professor Sir David Watson Awards for community-university partnerships

These important awards have been created in memory of Professor Sir David Watson, honouring his leadership in the area of community-university engagement. Community-university engagement is still an emerging field of action, making effective partnerships between community movements and academics often difficult to achieve. The awards will enable community-university engagement participants to share stories of their…

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