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Announcing the 2017 Conference Call for Proposals, September 14 – 16, 2017

The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) is pleased to announce that proposals are now being accepted for the 2017 conference in Galway, Ireland. The conference will take place September 14 – 16, 2017 and is hosted by NUI Galway. The conference program chair is Lorraine McIlrath. The theme of this…

Commissioning In Crisis – New report from Lloyds Bank Foundation

Commissioning in Crisis – published December 2016 This research brings together the experiences of small charities who have taken part in 120 tenders and shines a spotlight on a catalogue of errors and unacceptable hoops small charities are forced to jump through to be able to continue supporting local people in need. The report identifies that…

South Downs National Park Research Priorities for academic year 2016/17

The Research Team at the South Downs National Park Authority is pleased to announce our new list of research priorities for the academic year 2016/17. These can be found on our website: https://www.southdowns.gov.uk/discover/research/research-opportunities/ We would be very grateful if you could advertise these opportunities to your students. In addition, if you are interested in any…

UALL Annual Conference, York – 5- 7 April 2017

Audio and presentation from Cupp seminar: A Rose by Any Other Name? Using Poetry as a Tool for Collaborative Research

Helen Johnson hosted a Cupp seminar exploring the development of a new method, in which social scientists, artists and community partners work together as research partners. The intention was to produce art-as-research, which is engaging, accessible, meaningful, and rooted in the interests of the communities it represents. Helen began developing this method in Montreal this…

The call for abstracts is open for the Brighton and Sussex Food Network’s symposium!

The call for abstracts is open for the Brighton and Sussex Food Network’s symposium. The symposium is multi-disciplinary and open to non-academics. Next year’s theme is Food Agendas in a Post-Brexit Future See attached for details. Deadline 16 Dec 2016. There is also a reading group and seminar series – scroll down for more details. If…

Music, singing and wellbeing: what works?

https://whatworkswellbeing.org/music-singing/ See this link for reports from the What works – wellbeing research group that reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of interventions based on music and singing for wellbeing. These reports might be useful evidence for voluntary projects who utilise music or singing.

Showcasing the university at annual Eastbourne Strategic Partnership event

The Eastbourne Strategic Partnership (ESP) recently invited Associate Professor Anne Mandy (Health Sciences) & Bethan Prosser (Community University Partnership Programme) to discuss their local community-university engagement activities and to showcase the Eastbourne e-bike scheme at their annual event. The event brought together ESP members across statutory, public and private sectors to share and learn about…

Cupp Seed Funding Programme 2016 – summary of new projects

The seed fund supports new and emerging areas of partnership between the university and local community organisations. These partnerships are focused on an area of expertise in the university with identified benefits for teaching or research and clear need within the community that the partnership can demonstrate making a difference towards. Development support is provided…

Video from The European Conference on Education 2015 (ECE2015) Panel in Brighton, includes presentation from me on “Utilising Community University Partnership Spaces for Addressing Inequalities”

http://iafor.org/challenging-practices/ Dr. Linda Morrice introduces Dr. Kerry Harman, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, David Wolff, University of Brighton, UK, and Dr. Tamsin Hinton-Smith, University of Sussex, UK who discussed their concerns with how education can contribute to greater equality, and how we can begin to imagine more democratic and empowering spaces in education during The…