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Community-University Collaborations:Exploring Models, Sharing Good
Practice
Grey College, DurhamSeptember 9th and 10th 2010
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WELCOME!
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About the conference• Models of engagement• Sharing good practice• Bringing together university and community
representatives• Talks, workshops, showcasing event• Community-based wellbeing research theme
(particularly tomorrow)• Reflections – the changing relationship between
universities and wider society - regionally, nationally and internationally
• Acknowledgements
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Community engagement at Durham University• Effective community engagement (CE) is increasingly
important for the future of all universities
• CE is about enhancing the positive impact of the University on society – economically, socially and culturally
• Durham’s future strategy is to undertake CE through three interlinked strands:
– Business and knowledge transfer
– Schools outreach and academies
– Community outreach and engagement
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Is there a Durham model of community outreach and engagement?
Building...
organically
responsively – existing assets
– wider world
sustainably
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Durham Phoenix• Making it easier for community groups and
organizations to access the University, and for members of the University to access the community
• A central portal…..
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Community Partners’ Scheme
• Gives community groups and organisations access to the University’s…• staff volunteering scheme• information professionals• student societies• training and development opportunities• student placements• research and the ‘knowledge economy’• facilities and events
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Staff Volunteering Scheme“to give staff the opportunity to take time off from their normal work without losing pay to engage in approved activities that will be of mutual benefit to the University and the community”
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Staff Volunteering Scheme – an example of Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV)
• ESV is increasingly common not only in private sector but also in public sector organizations including HE
• Benefits to the University, its staff, the receiving organizations and the wider community
• Many Durham staff already involved in volunteering activities
• Building on what is already happening, and developing new opportunities
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Staff Volunteering Scheme - Key points• Open to ALL staff (not just academics) on BOTH
campuses• Up to FIVE DAYS paid time in any one year• Pilot phase – one year initially, now in year 2• A range of volunteering activities is available, or staff
can propose their own• Target of 5% of all staff by October 2010 (=175)• Open to existing volunteers and new ones• Now introduced as part of staff induction, and
community engagement is included in staff appraisal/development activities
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Sport in the Community• Street League
• Second Chance football and Multisport Project
• Looked after Children
• Female Learning Support Students
• Young Person’s Sports Sessions
• ACCESS and IMPACT scheme
• Lunchtime mentoring
• Debating programme
• Sports sessions for the homeless
• Stockton Health and Lifestyle Programme
• Asian Women’s Group
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Beacon NEJoint venture Durham University, Newcastle University and the Centre for
Life, NewcastleVision• Public Engagement is part of the role of every academic and universities
are valued by and open to the community Missioni. To enable members of the public to help shape research, alongside
academics ii. To enable academics to learn from those outside academia, who have
expertise through experience iii. To build capacity and understanding of public engagement at all levels of
the university
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BeaconNE themes
Social justice and social inclusion
(Prof. Sarah Banks [email protected])
Energy and environment
(Dr Tom Henfrey [email protected])
Vitality and the life course
(Dr Mark Booth [email protected])
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Engaged research• Benefits at all levels, from undergraduate projects through
to post-doctoral research• Academics can assist in accessing funding streams not
otherwise available to groups (and vice versa)• Varies in terms of timescale, time constraints, cost,
expertise, and nature of engagement:
Passive - Public lectures/other dissemination
Active - Consultative
- Collaborative
- Participatory/Co-inquiry
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What is the role for a University like Durham in the 21st century?
• Non-partisan broker• Knowledge generation; knowledge exchange• Economic engine• Challenging ‘received wisdom’ and encouraging ‘out
of the box’ thinking• Serving the needs of the community and wider
society – fulfilling its civic responsibility• Bringing the outside world into the region, and the
region into the outside world
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Now more than ever….
If not now, when?
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The Future….‘Experience Durham’
More in-depth, place-based work
Web/internet links
Internationalisation
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Further information:
• www.durham.ac.uk/phoenix (Phoenix)• www.beaconnortheast.co.uk (BeaconNE)• www.dur.ac.uk/beacon/socialjustice/ (CSJCA)
• E-mail: [email protected]
• See also: http://www.dur.ac.uk/whatson/ and • http://www.dur.ac.uk/attractions/