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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…

What happens when a researcher wants to publish differently?: A vision of the possibilities – Cabaret as academic discourse with Dr Geof Hill, Thursday 23rd March, M218 Mithras House

Dr Geof Hill Birmingham City University Thursday 23rd March, 5pm Mithras House, room: M218 Geof will present his cabaret which was presented last year at Birmingham City University, Dublin City University and Oxford Brookes University. The cabaret runs for forty minutes and there will be time for questions and discussion following its presentation. Dr Geof…

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…

Nominations for Community Researchers for Needs Assessment for International Migrants

As part of the Needs Assessment for International Migrants, Brighton & Hove City Council and the University of Brighton are recruiting twenty community researchers from migrant communities in the City. Their role will be to gather experiences of members of our migrant communities using participatory action research. The community researchers will be offered full training…

Cupp seed funded project receives further bid success!

Professor Julie Doyle’s recent seed funded project ‘FutureCoast Youth: Creative Collaboration for a Changing Climate’ has led to further funding from the Austrian Climate Research Programme. A two year collaboration between the University of Vienna (Austria), Climate Media Factory (Germany), Climate Outreach (UK), ONCA Centre for Arts and Ecology (UK), and the University of Brighton, the…

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…

New University of Brighton Research Project: Insecurity and Uncertainty: Marginalised young people’s living rights in fragile and conflict affected situations in Nepal and Ethiopia

Cupp are about to embark on a research project, to be led by Dr Vicky Johnson from the Education Research Centre at the University of Brighton and international partners from Ethiopia and Nepal. The project, Insecurity and Uncertainty: Marginalised young people’s living rights in fragile and conflict affected situations in Nepal and Ethiopia has been…

Blog from a Cupp seminar 29/4/15. Challenging experiences of exclusion and marginalisation: A participatory video project with Amaze and the University of Brighton

Watch the video here This collaboration was a participatory video project that included a community psychologist from the university and parent service users from Amaze, a Brighton-based charity that supports the parents and carers of children with complex needs. Following an evaluation research project undertaken with Amaze, the group got together and set to work…

Sowing the seed: Incentives and Motivations for Sharing Research Data, a researcher’s perspective

This qualitative study, commissioned by Knowledge Exchange, has gathered evidence, examples and opinions on current and future incentives for research data sharing from the researchers’ point of view, in order to provide recommendations for policy and practice development on incentivising data access and re-use. Research with five research teams, with an established data sharing culture,…