Converge: releasing the potential of the university
York St John University and the Leeds and York NHS Foundation Trust provide courses in the arts for people who use mental health services
Public Involvement in Research
This case study describes an initiative to build a strategic approach to involving health and social care service users in research in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at UWE Bristol.
Bristol’s first ever BioBlitz provided an opportunity for academics and volunteer naturalists to combine knowledge and expertise with public engagement experience to deliver an exciting biodiversity event for local people.
Students volunteer to experience and explore working in museums, archives and libraries at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL). Volunteering is accredited through a link with Reading University Students' Union RED (Reading Experience and Development) Award.
A collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and UWE to create a website containing interviews with people from British crafts, to offer alternative views on the museums 20 century ceramics collection.
Collecting and Curating Popular Music Histories
Academics at the University of Liverpool are working on an AHRC funded project in partnership with the UK museum sector to develop effective strategies for collecting, preserving, representing, and interpreting popular music.
UWE historians (Dresser and Fleming) were co-opted to advise on the contents of the MShed Museum scheduled to open in 2011
Student-led activities in partnership with the community where both students and permanent residents volunteered together, aiming to overcome growing community issues of ‘studentification’.
History, Heritage and Public Engagement
A unique public engagement project led by the School of History at University of East Anglia (UEA), benefitting students, the university, local heritage partners and the community.
Researcher Curator is an AHRC-funded project running in partnership between Nottingham University, Nottingham Trent University and the Galleries of Justice. It is targeted at researchers from non-museums backgrounds.
University engagement at the Eisteddfod
Techniquest and Cardiff University worked in partnership to develop a range of interactive exhibits to engage people in research carried out by the university, to celebrate Cardiff University’s 125th anniversary at the National Eisteddfod (Europe’s largest cultural festival), at subsequent...
BA (hons) students of various disciplines are annually empowered to re-interpret the Royal Cornwall Museum’s collections in creative ways that will appeal to young people aged 16-24, creating surprising interventions to both engage this age group and represent them to other sectors of Cornwall’s...
Future animals: Friend or Food?
‘Future animals’ was an integrated arts and science project that brought together teenagers, Cardiff University staff and students, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, and an artist to discuss how human manipulation of past animals produced animals of the present day, and to design animals for...
Trinity College Dublin are marrying the universities knowledge with the expertise of people with aphasia, to develop a framework to support student assessment in the Department of Clinical Speech and Language
Collaborative oral history research project to create an animated film marking the 40th anniversary of the salvage and return of the ss Great Britain to Bristol
Third/fourth year students at The University of Bath communicate mathematics in an exciting, interactive way to the public through four tasks - an exhibition at Bath Taps Into Science, a master class for the Royal Institution, a student-led project, and a mathematics project in any medium.
Manchester Beacon Science Festival Community Awards 2010
Fostering new partnerships between research networks and community groups. This case study explores the role of the Museum as a bridge to build links between universities and community groups.
Accessing our National Heritage
The Adult Education Centre at University College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland commenced collaboration in 2008 to harness and leverage the resources and exhibitions of the National Library for the benefit of adult learners.
Collaborating for Social Justice: a community-university partnership
Mutually beneficial partnership between Thrive, a community organisation committed to assisting people to overcome poverty and the Centre for Social Justice, Durham University
The project facilitated inter-disciplinary student volunteer teams who designed, developed and delivered innovative and exciting learning modules for primary school children at risk of disengaging with education. It is a collaboration between the university, business and schools.
Developing low carbon neighbourhoods: a collaborative action research project in Newcastle
Improving university engagement with communities and neighbourhoods in Newcastle upon Tyne to discern local visions and actions relevant to building low carbon communities/neighbourhoods
Beacon North East Co-inquiry Action Research (CAR) Project
Members from BE North East, community group, Thrive, Durham University and Newcastle University formed co-enquiry action research group to research co-enquiry
Developing Durham Local Food Network: the role of a Master's student
Co-inquiry partnership (community-university research partnership), centred around the provision of a masters Postgraduate bursary awarded to Amy Mycock to develop a website for Durham Local Food Network.
Digging where we stand: a research collaboration between older people and planning students
Community-university research partnership involving postgraduate planning students worked with older people in two diverse neighbourhoods to draw out qualities of those neighbourhoods that were supportive or detrimental to older residents’ quality of life.
Techniquest ran a special weekend of interactive activities at its centre in Cardiff in November 2010 about the human body, with partners including Cardiff University and the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) to give its visitors opportunities to find out more about themselves.
The Community University Partnership Programme's (Cupp) Helpdesk helps to build trust, commitment and understanding between the University of Brighton and its communities.
Beacon for Wales funding rounds
The Beacon for Wales has been focussing on raising the profile of engagement as a valid activity for university academics, and has managed to award £208k to 16 projects across four different Welsh universities in two funding rounds.
Intergenerational Reminiscence Project
The Intergenerational Reminiscence Project aims to break down barriers between the elderly and local school children through student volunteer facilitated workshops, which focus on two-way communication of knowledge and life experience.
UCL Step Out and other adventures
A collaboration between UCL's public engagement unit and their volunteering services unit to encourage postgraduate students to develop public engagement projects.
A collaborative one-day informal learning & community engagement event themed around aspects of medieval society to celebrate Adult Learners Week, held at Cosmeston, a reconstructed medieval village near Cardiff
The focal point for charitable activity at Oxford University - a network that helps coordinate the work of partners in the public engagement process.
All My Worldly Possessions: The Guernsey Evacuee Experience
Exploring the Guernsey Evacuee Experience enabled university researcher Gill Mawson to talk about her work and the Bury Archives. Sharing the stories of evaluees made the Archives and university research more accessible to the general public.
Practical Piracy is a series of workshops led by post-graduate researchers from the University of Warwick to engage children with their research in a fun and engaging manner.
Liverpool Applied Social Research Module
An optional accredited research project as part of undergraduate sociology courses. Students are placed with a Voluntary, Community or Faith Organisations to research a problem/issue identified by the client organsation. Placements cover a range of topics including domestic abuse, mental health and...
A National Trust Student Ambassador hosted a Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the University of Plymouth to raise awareness of the National Trust among the student body.
Nottingham Trent University and the Galleries of Justice Museum are currently working together to deliver a vocational qualification called the Professional Certificate in Heritage Tourism to provide entry-level training. Thereby opening up a new way the sector to help diversify the workforce.
Real World Science – Engaging with the Experts
The collaboration between The University of Manchester research scientists and museum educators to design and host a programme of ‘Engage with the Experts’ A-Level Study days entitled ‘Genes to Phenotype’ and ‘The Hard Cell’ Stem Cell Debate day.
The Whitworth’s student engagement programme is pioneering a model where the students are active learners, and co-producers. This way of working impacts upon both the students and gallery staff as co-learners and provides provide an empowering platform for student talent, creativity, vision and...
A 24 hour bodiversity study carried out in six university campuses across the country in 2010, offering a diversity of student volunteering opportunities and engaging people from across communities.
Since 2005 occupational therapy students have participated in the Study of Occupation course from first to fourth year, a component of which involves service-learning through the ‘Study of Occupation Practice’ (SOOP) course.
What can academics, practitioners and parents do to fight the odds for children who do not sail through life easily? This question has driven the work of the Bouncing Back project team.
Dance, Tag Rugby and Netball societies from the University of Brunel designing and delivering after school coaching sessions for primary school pupils in partnership with the West London Academy Children's University
Discovery is a student-led registered charity based at Swansea University that links student volunteers with a comprehensive range of community activities. These include running a charity shop, fund raising and publicity, volunteering with children and vulnerable adults, and environmental projects.
Social Policy into Practice - learning through volunteering
An optional 20 credit module in the second year of the BA Social Policy degree at the University of Birmingham. It enables students to volunteer locally, giving an opportunity to gain practical experience of organisations and settings in which social policy is put into practice at ‘ground level’...
Through community placements, undergraduate and MSc students studying entrepreneurship at the University of Southampton were given the chance to work with social enterprises as part of their assessed coursework.
Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies
The Ryedale Flood Research Group and the 'Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies' Project is an excellent example of developing effective ways of engaging citizens in interdisciplinary scientific work.
Research Informing Practice on Student Volunteering
Exploring the impacts upon volunteering practice within the University of East London, following participation in the 'Bursting the Bubble' research, commissioned by the NCCPE
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and several science partners in the city joined together to develop interactive activities for visiting schools for National Science and Engineering Week.
The Museum of English Rural Life seeks to capitalise on the expertise of the wider research community to give its temporary exhibitions increased relevance and depth.
Centre for Social Justice and Community Action
Durham University’s Centre for Social Justice and Community Action (CSJCA) was set up to promote relevant, community-based participatory research.
Working with community organisations and with sports clubs and societies of Warwick Students Union to develop community volunteering projects based around their activities. The aim was to promote a change in the approach to volunteering within Warwick Volunteers.
Kairos, Working Women Together (WWT)
Kairos WWT is a small organisation that recruits female-only volunteers to meet and offer friendship to women working on the street. They work with Warwick Volunteers to offer a wide range of volunteering experiences to Warwick students
London Student Volunteers Fortnight
In 2009 nine London universities came together with multiple community organisations and schools to coordinate a broad range of volunteering events and programmes across London, a pilot which has developed into an annual event.
Manchester Leadership Programme
An academically accredited programme to produce leaders of the future, and help the integration of the university within its community.
