Excellence in Engagement: Policies and practices for university‐community engagement 22nd June 2009 Centre for Knowledge, Technology, Innovation and Enterprise Newcastle University
Excellence in Engagement: Policies & practices for university‐ community engagement: Delegate Book
Excellence in Engagement: Policies and practices for university‐ community engagement A one day symposium at Centre for Knowledge, Technology, Innovation and Enterprise, Newcastle University, 22nd June 2009.
Introduction Universities are key institutions in the knowledge economy and will be a vital part of societal responses to the grand challenges of the 21st century such as climate change, resource scarcity and demographic ageing. This raises the question of how can universities’ knowledge and expertise can be mobilised and made relevant for those communities who have not benefited from a university education. This issue is particularly salient for socially excluded communities who face particular barriers in accessing higher education and interacting with universities. Can universities help these communities, re‐engage them with the knowledge economy, to reinvent this social compact to benefit all social strata? In this symposium, we address the practicalities of encouraging engagement with these excluded groups. Today, we hope to create a space where academics, HE managers and policy‐makers can debate and discuss the following questions:‐ • In an age of the ‘overburdened university’, how can a university adopt an engagement mission? • How can engagement be made complementary to the other key university activities, including teaching and research? • How can excluded communities hold universities accountable to their interests and needs? • What policies, indicators and performance measures support effective engagement activities? “Excellence in engagement” is a one‐day symposium where these questions can be discussed to produce common understandings, alongside highlighting tensions and contradictions in the practicalities of an engagement mission for higher education.
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Today involves a mix of invited speakers and panel discussion, alongside significant time for audience involvement. speakers today include:‐ •
Professor Paul Younger (Pro Vice Chancellor, Newcastle University)
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Professor James Powell (Pro Vice Chancellor, Salford University)
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Professor Phil Gummett (Chief Executive, HEFCW)
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Professor Markku Sotarauta (University of Tampere, Finland)
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Professor Allan Cochrane (Open University)
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Professor Angie Hart (Brighton University,)
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Dr Laura Saija (Catania University, Italy)
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Lynne Humphrey (KITE, Newcastle University).
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Ruth Williams (Centre for Higher Education Research & Information, Open University)
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Ursula Kelly (Programme Director, HEIs Impact Programme, Strathclyde University)
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Kim Aumann (Amaze Brighton)
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Professor David Charles (Director, KITE)
“Excellence in engagement” is a symposium organised within the Economic and Social Research Council funded project “Universities and excluded communities”, part of the Regional Impacts of Higher Education Initiative. This Initiative is co‐funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils for England and Wales, the Scottish Funding Council and the Department for Education and Learning Northern Ireland. We thanks the funders for the additional funds that they have made available to support the organisation of this event.
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Itinerary 9am 9.30am‐10.15am
Registration and Coffee Welcome & Introduction • Professor David Charles, Newcastle University, “Universities’ engagement with excluded communities • Ursula Kelly, Strathclyde University, “The regional impacts of higher education institutions” • Professor Paul Younger, “University/ Community Engagement at Newcastle University” 10.15am‐11.00am Opening Keynote Presentation: what do policy‐makers need to better stimulate university/ community engagement? • Professor Phil Gummett, HEFCW, “Effective policies for university/ community engagement”. 11.00am‐11.30am Coffee Break 11.30am‐1.00pm Plenary session 1: how can a university meaningfully adopt an engagement mission? • Professor Allen Cochrane & Ruth Williams, Open University, UK • Dr Laura Saija, University of Catania Discussant: Professor David Charles, Newcastle University. 1.00pm‐2.00pm Lunch Break 2.00pm‐3.30pm Plenary session 2: How can engagement be made complementary to universities’ other key missions? • Professor James Powell, Salford University • Lynne Humphrey, Newcastle University Discussant: Professor Paul Younger, Newcastle University 3.30pm‐4.00pm Afternoon Tea 4.00pm‐5.30pm Plenary session 3: How can universities be held to account for their engagement with excluded communities? • Professor Angie Hart, Brighton University, and Kim Aumann, Amaze Brighton • Professor Markku Sotarauta, Tampere University, Finland Discussant:Professor Phil Gummett, HEFCW 5.30pm Event closes
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Excellence in Engagement: Policies and practices for university‐ community engagement A one day symposium at Centre for Knowledge, Technology, Innovation and Enterprise, Newcastle University, 22nd June 2009.
List of Speakers Kim Aumann, Amaze Brighton
Kim is a Visiting Fellow with the Faculty of Health, University of Brighton and works closely with the School of Nursing and Midwifery, supporting the involvement of parents in the development of Resilient Therapy, a new strategic approach to supporting children and families. Previously the Director and founder of Amaze, an information and support charity for parents of children with special needs applauded as an example of excellence and good practice, Kim has worked with parent carers for the past 15 years. She is now Director of ART (Amaze Research and Training) which she established as a result of her partnership work with the University of Brighton. Her organisation has been involved with the University’s Community University Partnership Project from the outset and has successfully forged creative links with different university partners, to tackle issues of disadvantage and inequalities together. Originally from Australia, Kim completed her studies in sociology, counselling, group work and research methods in the UK.
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Professor David Charles, Newcastle University
David Charles holds the David Goldman Chair of Business Innovation in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Business School. David is also director of the research centre on Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise (KITE). David has a wide range of research interests, which include innovation management, the role of universities in regional development, regional innovation policy and urban development. His work on universities and regional development has included leading an eight‐country EU Framework Programe project on this topic (UNIREG) along with a number of other projects for national government bodies, regional agencies, university associations, and OECD. Recent work on HE business interaction for the Higher Education Funding Councils and Office of Science and Technology attracted considerable policy and press interest and was cited by the Prime Minister, Science Minister and Bank of England. Building on these he also led an EU Marie Curie Training Site on Advanced Research Training in University Region Interaction. David has also led a number of studies on regional innovation policy and innovation in clusters for the EU, OECD and regional development agencies. His other recent research interests include research into the role of cities in regional competitiveness.
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Professor Phil Gummett, HEFCW
Professor Gummett is the Chief Executive at the Higher Education Council for Wales (HEFCW). Professor Gummett joined HEFCW from Manchester University, where he was Pro Vice‐Chancellor, former Head of the Department of Government and Professor of Government and Technology Policy. He was a founder member and non‐executive director of PREST (Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology) at Manchester – one of the leading science policy research centres globally, and is a former member, and Chair of the Board of Examiners, of the Training Board of the Economic and Social Research Council.
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Professor Angie Hart, Brighton University
Angie Hart is the Academic Director of the award winning Community University Partnership Programme at the University of Brighton. As part of that role, she is the Brighton lead for the HEFCE‐funded South East Coastal Communities Programme (www.cupp.org.uk). She is also Professor of Child, Family and Community Health in the School of Nursing and Midwifery in the Faculty of Health and Social Science. She teaches on professional courses for health and social care practitioners and undertakes participatory research into inequalities in health and social care in relation to children and families. Professor Hart is a child and family therapist, and until August 2008 she worked part‐ time as a research‐practitioner in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Sussex Partnership NHS Trust, Brighton. She worked both in a specialist team supporting fostered and adopted children, and in a generic CAMHS clinic located in a socially and economically deprived area of Brighton. As the adoptive parent of three children from the care system, she has much experience herself as a service user of health and social care services in both the voluntary and statutory sector. Professor Hart has published widely on health and social care services to disadvantaged children, their families and their supporters, especially in relation to fostering and adoption to midwifery and health visiting and in relation to the concept of resilience. She has also published her work on the development of community university partnership programmes. Her current work includes developing a series of communities of practice in collaboration with a local charity. This project involves working with groups of parents and practitioners to implement and develop Resilient Therapy.
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Professor Hart's degrees are in philosophy and social anthropology from the Universities of Sussex, Cambridge and Oxford, and she has a postgraduate diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling from the University of Sussex. Professor Hart has project‐managed and worked as a research collaborator on many multi‐disciplinary research projects. These include ones commissioned by major government agencies (e.g. the Department of Health and the Economic and Social Research Council).
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Lynne Humphrey, Newcastle University Lynne Humphrey is a Research Associate interested in the political development of multi‐level governance, with a specific focus on the theory and practice of civic and 'third sector' engagement within a wider context of attempts at 'democratic renewal'. Her work has focused on the UK but more recently she has been involved in research that has looked at leadership and governance in Greece. Lynne is also studying for a part‐time PhD aiming to contribute to contemporary debates on philosophy of history through an examination of the legal re‐ presentation of evidence of the Holocaust over time and social context.
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Ursula Kelly, Strathclyde University Ursula Kelly is Assistant Director (Policy and Communications) in the Information Resources Directorate of the University of Strathclyde. She has over 20 years experience working in and with higher education institutions in the UK and internationally. After graduating in English and Philosophy from the University of York, she worked as a lecturer in the Universities of Lodz and Warsaw (Poland) and for the British Council before joining the University of Strathclyde International Office in 1990. From 1992 –2000 she worked as PA and Senior Assistant Registrar to the Strathclyde University Principal, which involved a strong focus on higher education policy matters including extensive work with the UK Dearing and Scottish Garrick Committees. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce in 2001. She has directed a number of high profile projects relating to aspects of higher education policy and higher education in the economy. These have included projects for Universities UK , Universities Scotland, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council Knowledge Transfer Taskforce and the London Development Agency as well as for individual Universities such as the University of Liverpool and Queen Mary, University of London.
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Professor James Powell, Salford University
For the past thirty years he has been researching into all aspects of communication and the mid‐career education of professionals especially those in the construction industry. He has designed, directed and produced a number of national/European award winning multi‐media learning packages. He has also been responsible for developing effective professionals' learning strategy based upon a fourfold model of learning. He has been Chair of CONTACT – the Collaborator between the four universities of Greater Manchester and of the Innovation Park Steering Committee, the body responsible for a major development of Salford for the Knowledge Economy and ESRC's Cognitive Engineering Panel, EPSRC's Engineering Education and Training Committee. He has also been on EPSRC’s Engineering Board. He was SERC/EPSRC's IT Awareness Coordinator and was charged with developing its Innovative Manufacturing Initiative programme known as "Construction as a Manufacturing Process". He has published over 200 refereed academic papers, 13 books and has received over £34 million of financial support for his research, developments and information transfer studies. He has an international network of over 30 design and action learning researchers who are brought together to tackle major projects. His explorations include team building and simultaneous engineering for Lucas Industries, the development of Command and Control training simulations for the National Fire Services College and the Metropolitan Police Force, and achieving Cultural Change with busy Chartered Builders. His latest research studies involve: creating and evaluating a portfolio of virtual reality demonstrators for the construction industry under LINK IDAC; developing an Action Learning programme to
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empower “cultural change for innovation” in small and medium enterprises. He is a non‐Executive Director of USE Ltd and the Excellence North Awards and a Trustee of Salford City Reds Community Foundation NW and the Bayswater Institute. He was responsible for the Powell Report on Postgraduate Education for SERC which has led to significant changes in such training, especially the development of the Engineering Doctoral and the IGDS programme. This has led him to recent studies concerning the promotion of creativity and innovation in designers. His own creative leadership skills have recently been explored in a recent major study funded by the DTI. He is also co‐initiator of Salford's industry driven IGDS programme on IT for construction. . He is currently a member of EPSRC/ESRC's Link programme linking People and ICT. He developed the CIOB's strategy for research and was part of its OSTEM expert mission to Japan. He is a recent former Chair of the North West Enterprise Forum. He is undertaking a major project with Brazilian partners to improve construction in that country. He recently led the £2 million NWDA project, known as ‘Bouncing Higher’, which ensure higher wealth creation through innovation of the small enterprises in the north of the UK. He co‐ordinated the European Universities Associations major programme exploring the relationships between universities and their creative city‐regions. He is presently on the Board of the PASCAL international Observatory for ‘place management, social capital and learning regions’ where he is leading their development of a global consortium of universities striving for a Modern Renaissance. He is a Director of Community Finance Solutions – a university community enterprise helping the developments of ‘community banks’ and ‘affordable housing’ using Community Land Trusts. Finally, he was a recent a member of the Regional Assembly's Knowledge Economy Priority Group. He is member of the HEFCE’s Business and Community Committee and with their support leads a consortium of five British Universities benchmarking themselves against the five best enterprise Universities in the rest of Europe with a view to developing ‘performance metrics and drivers’ for University Third Stream activity, known as UPBEAT. This has led to a pioneering way of structuring staff development for university academics to improve the levels and qualities of their engagement with business and the community. Using this approach he has increased the income to his own university per annum to around £15 million with a considerable contribution of funding for new project/process development. His major prizes and awards are: Taylor Woodrow Prize, 1967; British Interactive Multi Media Award, 1978; European Multi Media Award, 1979; Artificial Intelligence in Learning Award, 1983; Bangermann IT Challenge for SMEs (British Best), 1990; Queen’s Award for Higher and Further Education (Construct IT), 1999; Shell LIVEWire North West Enterprise Award, 2001; North West Excellence Award for Innovative Excellence, 2002. On the 15th June 1996, in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, he was awarded the OBE for "services to science and to engineering research and education".
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Dr Laura Saija, University of Catania
Laura Saija was born in Catania (Sicily, Italy) in 1975 and trained as an Engineer and Urban Planner at the University of Catania. After a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2004 and receiving her PhD in Urban and Environmental Rehabilitation and Design from the University of Catania in 2005, Laura joined the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning as a Lecturer. Since 2002, she has been part of the Laboratory for the Ecological and Environmental Design of the Territory ‐ a Participatory Action‐Research group committed in promoting community‐led development in the area of Eastern Sicily. This research laboratory contributed to establishing, in 2005, “La Casa della Città di Catania”, the first research center for University Engagement in Southern Italy. In 2008 she published a book on the ethical assumptions underpinning Participatory Action‐Research, and her most recent publications focuses on Participatory Action‐ Research efficacy in promoting local development in distressed areas also challenged by the heavy presence of mafia‐like structures of power.
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Professor Markku Sotarauta, Tampere University, Finland
Professor Markku Sotarauta is head of the Department of Regional Studies and director of the Research Unit for Urban and Regional Development Studies (Sente). He holds the Chair of policy‐making theories and practices in the University of Tampere, Finland. Further work support and funding for the research group is gained through both academic research funding and through other outside contracts. In early 2002 he received a nomination for the adjunct professorship in the Tampere University of Technology, and in 2008 he was appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Newcastle University Business School (UK) for a three year period. Sotarauta has consulted for the Finnish Parliament, many Finnish ministries, OECD, cities and regions, and other organizations, in economic development, strategic management, strategic planning, leadership in networks, competitiveness of regions, etc.
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Ruth Williams, Open University, UK
Ruth graduated in politics and international relations and has a masters degree in higher and further education from the University of London. She works as a researcher on several academic and policy‐related projects concerning universities and their engagement with communities and other stakeholders at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information. These include:‐ • On social disadvantage, she is co‐director of the ESRC‐funded research project Higher Education and Regional Transformation – Social and Cultural Perspectives. This project runs until December 2009 and is exploring the impact of universities on the lives of local and regional communities and in particular their role in alleviating social disadvantage. • On institutional partnerships, she has completed an interim evaluation of Lifelong Learning Networks. These networks are groups of higher education institutions and further education colleges that have been set up to improve progression opportunities for vocational learners into and through higher education. • On employer engagement, she led a systematic review that explored engagement in course development by employers not traditionally involved in higher education. • On students, she has recently completed a study on student engagement, and undertaken a number of projects on student feedback and its collection and use in relation to the quality and standards of learning and teaching in higher education, and produced a good practice guide. Other work includes the management of the Higher Education Empirical Research Database ‐ a database comprising summaries of empirical literature on a range of
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topics concerned with higher education for DIUS, GuildHE, HEFCE, HE Academy and UUK. The database is an open resource and free to users; it is accessible at http://heerd.open.ac.uk/. In recent years, her other work has included the management of quality assurance in central and eastern Europe. Ruth has managed three multi‐country projects for the European Training Foundation (an agency of the European Union), a project for the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and another to establish a quality assurance agency in Albania.
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Professor Paul Younger, Newcastle University
Paul L Younger is Pro‐Vice‐Chancellor for Engagement at Newcastle University. His background is in geology and environmental engineering, and he is particularly renowned for collaborative work with grassroots communities (in the UK and developing countries) to empower them to tackle issues of post‐industrial pollution and the provision of clean water. The research and outreach programme on these themes which Paul established in 1992 continues strongly to this day, and won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education for Newcastle University in 2005. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (the top professional honour for engineers in the UK). A gifted communicator, Paul currently serves as Public Orator for the University, recently delivering honorary degree citations for the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP (in Jan 2007), Sir David King (May 2006) and Baroness Onora O’Neill (April 2008), amongst many others. A fluent Spanish speaker, Paul has recently been appointed to the water research panel of the government of Greater Madrid. He has extensive experience in community‐based development projects in Latin America, and is currently directing a major EU‐funded technology transfer project in that continent. Paul is Director of three companies, engaged in the groundwater control and geothermal energy sectors, and is author of some 250 items in the international literature. He is the Principal Investigator of Beacon North East, one of six pilot ‘Beacons of Public Engagement’ funded by HEFCE, RCUK and the Wellcome Trust. He also serves on the public engagement panel of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Societal Issues Panel of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Paul is Chair of the Board of the Great North Museum.
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Excellence in Engagement: Policies and practices for university‐ community engagement A one day symposium at KITE, Newcastle University, 22nd June 2009.
Participant list Surname Alexander Archer Askins Aumann Baines Banks Bate Benneworth Berry Bhayani Braiden Brown Candy Charles Cochrane Conway Dobson Farrar Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Franks Fuller Gilbert Gillespie Gilroy Goddard Goodwin Gray Grodecki Gummett Guthrie Haq Hardill Harris Hart Hudson Humphrey Irawati Jackson Kelly
First name Catherine Abigail Kye Kim Sue Sarah Sally Paul Joanna Ali Mohammed Lesley Donna Roger David Allan Cheryl Marc Max Ann Kim Aarron Sara Lindsay Andrew Rose John Vicki Sam Adam Phil Christopher Jackie Irene Steve Angie Ray Lynne Dessy Amanda Ursula
institution Durham University Northumbria University Northumbria University Amaze Brighton Manchester Metropolitan University Durham University Lancashire Business school Newcastle University Newcastle University Bath University Newcastle University University of Dundee Northumbria University Newcastle University Open University Newcastle University JISC Leeds University University of Central Lancshire Science Shop Wales Glasgow University Durham University Manchester University Newcastle University Newcastle University Newcastle University Northumbria University Manchester Metropolitan University University of Oxford HEFCW Manchester University Newcastle University Nottingham Trent University Science Shop Wales Brighton University Durham University Newcastle University Newcastle University Leeds University Strathclyde University
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Livingstone Lu Lyons Macnamara Martin McGourty McIlrath McKenna Mejia Newbery Olivier O'Toole Peck Pennington Powell Prospert Purvis Regan Richardson Roberts Robinson Robinson Rodrigues Ross Rutten Saija Sear Shakespeare Shaw Slee Sotorauta Steel Tansey Thomas Tibbitt Vallance Wakeford Wardrop Watermeyer Watson Whitehurst Williams Wilson Winter Wray Wynne Younger
Karen Lucy Ann Oisin Eileen Orlaith Lorraine Emma Francesco Robert patrick Mo Frank Mike James Claire Catherine Aiden Ranald Joanne Fred Anna carlos Brian Roel Laura Leigh Tom Keith Peter Markku Linda Lorraine Colwyn John Paul Tom Laura Richard Paul Fiona Ruth Penny Nyomi Felicity Rhonda Paul
Newcastle University Newcastle University NUI Galway Northumbria University Queens Belfast University College Dublin NUI Galway Queens Belfast Columbia Newcastle University Newcastle University Newcastle University University of Cumbria Durham University Salford University Newcastle City Council Beacon NE Woodholmes Group Newcastle University Newcastle University Durham University Northumbria University University of Aveiro, Portugal
Newcastle University Tilburg University University of Catania Woodholmes Group Newcastle University Northumbria University Northumbria University Tampere University Bath University NUI Galway RCUK and Wellcome PASCAL Newcastle University Newcastle University Strathclyde University University of Cardiff Newcastle University Newcastle University Open University University of Cambridge Newcastle University UWA University College Dublin Newcastle University
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