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Community-university engagement in the United Kingdom
National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE)
www.publicengagement.ac.uk
The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement is part of the Beacons for Public Engagement project. It's role is to inspire a culture change in how universities engage with the public.
Centre
for Continuing Education - University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk/cce
The Centre for Continuing Education will be re-launched in the autumn 2009 as the Centre for Community Engagement. It offers a range of activities from short courses, residential summer schools to continuing professional development.
Centre for Community Engagement - University of Bradford
http://www.brad.ac.uk/cce/
The University of Bradford's Centre for Community Engagement is an initiative to help the University work more closely with communities.
Science Shops:
Science Shop Wales
www.scienceshopswales.org.uk
Science Shop Wales employs a team of trained researchers, and University students and their tutors to carry out research for the community. Further, they produce a range of leaflets covering some of the many topics raised by their projects.
Science
Shop Northern Ireland
http://researchservices1.qub.ac.uk/Scishop/scisho/Scienceshop/
The Northern Ireland Science Shop is a link between the universities and
the community, has offices at Queen's University Belfast and the University
of Ulster and has contacts with non-profit groups throughout Northern
Ireland. Community and voluntary groups often require specialist skills
to develop their work - the Science Shop can put these groups in touch
with students who might be able to work with them.
Interchange
- Learning through Service
www.liv.ac.uk/ssp/interchange
Interchange is a registered charity, supported by the three Higher Education
Institutions on Mersyside, which links Higher Education with the local
voluntary sector.
Other:
Student
and staff volunteering projects
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2004/04_21/
Case studies of good practice from the Higher Education Active Community
Fund
Community Network
Analysis and ICTs - Bridging and Building Community Ties
www.cna.org.uk
Joint venture between the University
of Brighton and SCIP (Sussex Community Internet Project) as part of the People at the Centre
of Communication and Information Technologies (PACCIT)
Research Programme.
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