Community University Partnership Programme Blog

PhD Studentship Opportunities at University of Brighton, 2017

The University of Brighton Collge of Arts and Humanities is a member of the AHRC TECHNE Training Partnership. This offers Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) PhD awards for those commencing study in September 2017. The University of Brighton also offers a number of fully funded PhD places. The University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied…

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Fully-funded PhD studentships at CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University

The Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University is recruiting for fully-funded PhD studentships linked to the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership – a collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, Sheffield Hallam, Hull, Bradford and Manchester Metropolitan University (http://www.wrdtc.ac.uk/the-white-rose-dtp/). We are seeking proposal across the range of CRESR…

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Benefits of volunteering for looked after young people and care leavers

Some of you may be interested in the following article, which used data that had been generated by a project evaluation conducted jointly by Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation, Greater Manchester Youth Network and Manchester Metropolitan University. The data were purposely collected in a way that allowed for more robustness than that typically required…

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Multi-Million Pound boost to support access into Higher level education across Sussex

Efforts to increase the participation in higher education of disadvantaged groups across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove received a major boost today as it was confirmed that the Sussex Learning Network has been successful in its bid for a share of a new £60 million per year programme. The National Collaborative Outreach…

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Metropolitan Universities Journal latest issue now published, includes an article from Cupp: Exploring shared spaces in Community University Partnerships

 Metropolitan Universities Vol 27, No 3 (2016) Campus and Community in Shared Spaces Guest Editor: Heidi Lasley Barajas Associate Professor and Chair College of Education and Human Development University of Minnesota Full Issue View or download the full issue PDF Table of Contents Editorials Increasing the possibilities through shared spaces Heidi Lasley Barajas PDF 2-5…

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British Science Festival

The University of Brighton and the University of Sussex are hosting the British Science Festival in September 2017. This is a big and diverse event and presents an excellent opportunity to disseminate your research to a wide public audience. To take part please take a look at the attached FAQ and follow this link to…

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Developing Community University Partnerships Course 2017, University of Brighton. ** early bird reduction if you book before 15th January**

The University of Brighton’s Community University Partnership Programme (Cupp) has been involved in brokering and developing partnerships with their local communities for the past eleven years. These partnerships are concerned with the exchange of knowledge and prioritise those that tackle disadvantage. The Cupp programme’s work involves building links between local community groups and academics, students and support staff. The programme…

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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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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…

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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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