Full Description
Universities have challenging times ahead: the demands of a global student, new technology, employers wanting work-ready graduates and shifting ideologies that influence who hold and create knowledge. The role of a university as a civic institution becomes increasingly contested. How can and should universities engage with communities to create lasting social impact?
This collection offers global perspectives on community-university engagement, highlighting innovative approaches to co-production, participatory research and collaboration with stakeholders beyond academia. The book explores the challenges and successes of partnership working, demystifying the university's role beyond teaching, positioning it as an anchor institution that can drive social change.
Contents
Introduction: The benefits and challenges of community-university engagement - Kush May-Chahal, Floor Mijland and Saskia Postema
PART I: Strategic frameworks for community-university engagement
1. Ushering a new era of development through community-university engagement in India: opportunities,
challenges and policy implications - Anshuman Karol and Nikita Rakhyani
2. Incentivising university senior leadership to invest in community engagement: reflections on the experience
at the universities of Birmingham and Swansea - Martin Stringer
3. What's in it for whom? Community-university collaborations in engaged education: a case study from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Frederique Demeijer, Laura de Groot, Marjolein Zweekhorst
and Geertje Tijsma
4. Engagement ecotone: a call for a recalibration of societal attitudes towards a community-university-driven just city - Craig Lee Martin, Arthur De Jaeger, Mandy Koenraads, Saskia Postema, Pieke Hoekstra, Tako Postma, Gilbert de Nijs,
Theo van Drunen, Jan Paul Peters, Melissa Campos, Madevi Sewnath, Kim My On and Juan Carlos Prazmowski
PART II: Cultural and local contexts in community-university engagement
5. University-community engagement in the Global South: experience on local heritage and citizen science
projects at Universidade Lúrio in Mozambique - Innocent Hakizimana Abubakar
6. Philosophy Outside the Walls: teaching students and society the value of applied philosophy - Yorick Karseboom
7. Service learning in the Philippines: origins, growth and development - Mark Anthony D. Abenir
8. Dance on Prescription: a cultural addition to healthcare and vice versa - Radboud Droog, Marlien Seinstra, Nynke Dölle and Floor Mijland
9. Unshackling minds: applied psychology approaches to community-university engagement in the Caribbean - Tracy A. McFarlane and Sophia S. Morgan
PART III: Capacity building and empowerment through community-university engagement
10. The University for Birmingham: working with citizens to co-create research - Kush May-Chahal and Giulia Pizzolini
11. Nurturing sustainable university-community engagement in Tanzania: lessons from St Augustine University of
Tanzania and University of Dodoma - David Haruna Mrisho and Okechukwu Chukwuma
12. The transformative power of social-artistic co-creation: grassroots innovation through community engagement - Rose Figdor, Wytske Lankester, Hans Schouwenburg and Lisbeth Verharen
13. Science Together with Tunisian communities: co-creating public health interventions - Asma Ferchichi, Hassine Karim Glaied, Siwar Nsibi and Dorra Rezig
14. Rules of engagement: preserving academic values in impactful collaborations with public sector partners - Albert Meijer, Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Floris Bex
Conclusion: Opening the doors for community-university engagement - Kush May-Chahal, Floor Mijland and Saskia Postema
