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Cupp Brighton Autumn Digest blog

Cupp’s Brighton Autumn Digest brought many people from university and community backgrounds together last week to celebrate and reflect on community-university partnerships. All were welcome to share and learn about current local partnerships – and the offer of cake obviously worked as the room was packed out! The showcasing began with a fascinating tour of the Waste…

Towards a Knowledge Base for University-Public Engagement: Sharing Knowledge, Building Insight and Taking Action

Towards a Knowledge Base for University-Public Engagement: Sharing … The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement has published a paper summarizing findings and recommendations from the AHRC project, “Researching the Engaged University.” It is based on a literature review of research into university-public engagement and consultation with over 90 researchers and professionals in the field and…

Danny Burns: Systemic Action Research. Cupp international seminar blog

After a long time of trying we have finally got Danny to cross the road from the Institute of Development Studies to Cupp at the University of Brighton to do an international seminar for us. Hurrah! So, we are here at a Cupp international seminar on 11 September 2012 with 16 colleagues from academia and…

How are you feeling? A stroke survivor’s poetry project – presentation and slides by Ceri Davies

On Our Doorsteps (see here: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cupp/whatwedo/community-knowledge-exchang… ) supports community and university partners to work together on topics of mutual interest in locations that are close to University of Brighton buildings. We run a seed fund which helps provide resources to kick start this partnership working. Last year, one of those projects was How are you…

On Our Doorsteps – Bridge Project, Hastings by Deborah Madden

The aim of the project is to enable a group of young people to become more integrated within their own community by showcasing the Adventure Playground in Ore. Plans for our event in the Adventure Playground are developing apace. The young people from Hastings Academy are planning and contributing ideas that will be of interest…

On Our Doorsteps – People Place Product by Ceri Davies

Staff and students from the University of Brighton’s Faculty of Arts have undertaken a ‘mini-festival’ of collaborative creative events with a diverse range of neighbours and partners from across the city and beyond. This has been seed funded from the On Our Doorsteps programme. Check out their website for an update on this project: http://onourdoorsteps.community21.org/…

Coastal Cultures 1 June 2012. University of Brighton, Eastbourne Campus. Conference blog

Tom Carter, introduced the day. This is the second event in a series, the first one was about ‘what is the coast’? At this first event they discussed that the coast is a very particular form of space, betwixt and between. Where does it begin and end? Coastal paths sometimes go a couple of miles…

COMMUNITY AWARD FOR OUR UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

An event which was co organised by the University of Manchester, and the Community Archive for Channel Islands Evacuation has been shortlisted for a Manchester Histories Festival Community Award. The event took place in Stockport Art Gallery and War Memorial last year,and was filmed by BBC Television. The news report can be viewed here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-15536660…

Cupp community research forum – Rotherfield St Martin : live blog

We are at Mayfield House, Univesity of Brighton with 30 participants drawn from academic, community and public sectors. Chaired by Adam Chugg Director of 3VA the voluntary organisation infrastructure body based in East Sussex. The focus of the event is Rotherfield St Martin, an innovative service based on the use of volunteers to work with older people….

Cupp international seminar – live blog

Re-imagining community based research. We are at Mayfield House, Falmer Campus, University of Brighton at a seminar led by Deborah Warr, with 20 people present (mix of academics, community practictioners, students, university admin staff). Deborah Warr is a Senior Research Fellow in the McCaughey VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Community Health and Wellbeing, in…