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
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.
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.
How MMU and people in Hulme and Moss Side came together to breath new life into film archive collections. In 2009 MMU's Northwest Film archive worked alongside a local cultural broadcaster on a public engagement fellowship project using archive footage as a platform to co-create a new short...
Manchester Community Science Awards
Four awards of up to £2000 each were available to develop PE activities during the Manchester Science Festival 2010.
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.
Step Up- Community Leadership Programme
Step Up was a bespoke leadership development programme led by the Manchester Beacon and Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations, designed to support and mentor leaders from the BAME communities.
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
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.
The Community University Partnership Programme's (Cupp) Helpdesk helps to build trust, commitment and understanding between the University of Brighton and its communities.
The focal point for charitable activity at Oxford University - a network that helps coordinate the work of partners in the public engagement process.
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.
Quality Streets - Participatory research in Stoke’s UniQ
Quality Streets is a participatory consultation in the neighbourhood of the University. The project involved local residents and workers, and students as a community research team to find out what people think about the area.
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.
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.
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’...
Two to the Left, Two to the Right
A fun event to raise awareness of the positive impact of students in the community.
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.
Bursting the Bubble: Peer-led Research
Bursting the Bubble, research into students, volunteering and the community adopted a peer led participatory methodology, involving student researchers in all stages of the process
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.
Garden Share Feasibility Study
Student volunteers from the University of Bath led a feasibility study into the use of student gardens as allotments for local residents in the Oldfield Park area of the city
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
Manchester Leadership Programme
An academically accredited programme to produce leaders of the future, and help the integration of the university within its community.
