Materials and Resources - Research and Development

Please see below for a selection of texts and publications written by members of Cupp staff and colleagues at the University of Brighton.
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Community Knowledge Exchange - Briefing Paper

This is one of a series of briefing papers that Cupp produces about their work. We aim for the briefings to act as an introduction to the main themes of the work we do and offer some examples that demonstrate this. Community Knowledge Exchange (CKE) is the term adopted by Cupp to describe activities that bring together the knowledge of local communities, voluntary organisations, practitioners and university academics to share their different understandings and perspectives on issues of common interest.

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Research and Development Support Leaflet

Cupp is interested in sharing experiences with and providing support to local, national and international universities and civil society organisations to explore the potential for partnership working in different local contexts. Have a look at this leaflet for more information.

Academic Experiences - Working in Community University Partnerships

This is a small collection of writing that provides five academic experiences of working in community-university partnerships. The contributors have all worked as part of the Community University Partnership Programme (Cupp) at the University of Brighton in the last five years.

This collection of stories is intended as an illustration of some of the experiences, thoughts, ideas and range of practices people are engaged in. Contributors were asked to tell a story in whichever way they wanted, based loosely on a set of questions posed by Cupp, and with a view to the final output being useful for those academics in the early stages of their community engagement work.

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Hart, A., & Church, A. (2011) 'Research leadership for the community-engaged university: Key challenges'. Metropolitan Universities Journal Special Issue, 22(2), 45-64.

Wolff, D., & Hart, A. (2011). Public engagement method: Brokerage. National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement website

Wolff, D., & Hart, A. (2011). Public engagement method: community of practice. National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement website 

Wolff, D., & Hart, A. (2011). Public engagement guide: working with local communites. National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement website

Mulvihill, N., Hart, A., Northmore, S., Wolff, D., & Pratt, J. (2011). South East Coastal Communities Project dissemination series paper 1: The future of university-community engagement. South East Coastal Communities website 

Mulvihill, N., Hart, A., Northmore, S., Wolff, D., & Pratt, J. (2011). South East Coastal Communities Project dissemination series paper 2: Models of partnership working in university-community engagement. South East Coastal Communities website

Mulvihill, N., Hart, A., Northmore, S., Wolff, D., & Pratt, J. (2011). South East Coastal Communities Project dissemination series paper 3: Geographies of collaboration in university-community engagement. South East Coastal Communities website

Mulvihill, N., Hart, A., Northmore, S., Wolff, D., & Pratt, J. (2011). South East Coastal Communities Project dissemination series paper 4: Embedding University-Community Partnership Working. South East Coastal Communities website 

Wolff, D. (Producer), Hart, A. (Producer), Northmore, S. (Producer), & Weinstein, D. (Director). (2011). Exploring community university partnerships: Learning from the South East Coastal Communities Programme [Motion picture]. UK: South East Coastal Communities. (Available from http://www.coastalcommunities.org.uk/films.html)

Hart, A., Northmore, S. (2010) Auditing and Evaluating University–Community Engagement: Lessons from a UK Case Study. Higher Education Quarterly, online edition.

Hart, A., Northmore, S. and Gerhardt, C. (2009) Auditing, benchmarking and evaluating university public engagement. Briefing paper commissioned by The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement. National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement: Bristol.

Bourner, Tom (2010) Student-Community Engagement in Context - The Long View
A paper for the conference 'Student Volunteering and Social Action: 1880-1990', 25 Nov at Toynbee Hall

Millican, J. (2009) The Role of Higher Education in Post Conflict Societies. Paper published by the Global University Network for Innovation.

Millican, J. (2008) ‘Social Engagement: working constructively within and between social groups to create more resilient and sustainable communities’, in Stibbe, A. (ed.) (2008) The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, Dartington: Green Books.

Hart, A. and Wolff, D. (2006) 'Developing local "Communities of Practice" through local Community-University Partnerships', Planning Practice & Research 21 (1) 121-138.

Hart, A. and Northmore, S. (2011) 'Sustainable community university partnerships', Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement Vol 4 (2011): 1-11