Juliet Millican MA Education
Senior Lecturer
contact:
Economic and Social Engagement
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644155
Email: J.Millican@brighton.ac.uk
Research interests
- Student Community Engagement
- University partnerships with civil society
- The promotion of citizenship in states recovering from conflict
- Experiential and reflective learning
- Adult Literacy and Community Education
Recent publications
Community Univesity Partnerships at the University of Brighton, CUPP – a Case Study, Millican (2012)'Building Staff Capacity for accredited community based learning – exploring the territory' SEDA publication, forthcoming.
'Engaging with the Other: Student Community Engagement and the development of citizenship after conflict' Millican, J. (2012)in Laker, J., (ed) (forthcoming) Citizenship, Democracy, and the University: Theory and Practice in Europe and North America, California, St Jose State University.
Reviewing your own Research Bourner, T and Millican, J (2012) in Research Methods for Post Graduates, Greenfield, T. (ed) 3rd edition, forthcoming, Routledge.
'Connected Communities: Community–university partnerships through communities of practice' Angie Hart, Alex Ntung, Juliet Millican, Ceri Davies, Etienne Wenger, Howard Rosing, Jenny Pearce (2012) AHRC; www.ahrc.ac.uk
'Student-community Engagement and the Changing Role and Context of Higher Education' Millican, J. and Bourner, T. (2011) in Bourner, T. and Millican, J. (eds) (2011) 'Student learning from community engagement' Education and Training Journal, special issue, vol 53 no 2/3 UK, Emerald.
'Student-community engagement and graduate employability' (2011b) Bourner, T and Millican, J in Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, volume 13 Number 2, August 2011 pp 68 – 85 Open University.
'Community University Partnership research in practice at the University of Brighton, England: Processes and Pitfalls' Millican, J. and Hart, A. (2011) in Rizoma Freireano, (2011) Spain, Instituto Paulo Freire.
'Social Engagement: working constructively within and between social groups to create more resilient and sustainable communities' Millican, J. (2009)Stibbe, A. (ed) (2009) The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, Gloucestershire, Green Books.
Developing Adult Literacy, McCaffery, Merrifield, Millican 2007, Oxfam
Delivering Cupp, Bulloch, Cohen, Hart, Maddison, McDonnell, Millican, Rodriguez, Wolff, (2007) and Community University Research Engagement: The Cupp Help Desk, Millican and Rodriguez, 2007 and Art in the Woods, An Exploration of a community/university environmental arts project, Millican and Nunn (2007) in Community University Partnerships in Practice, Hart, Maddison, Woolf, (2007) NIACE
Currents of change: Exploring relationships between teaching, learning and development, Stackpool-Moore, Taylor, Pettit and Millican, (2006) IDS
'I will stay here until I die' in Women, Literacy and Development, Robinson Pant, (2004) Routledge
Eliminating World Poverty– The Implications for Literacy Response to white paper , Millican 2001, commissioned by DfID
Older People can Learn, Millican, 2000, University of Natal
Re-defining Post-Literacy in a Changing World, Rogers, Maddox, Millican, Jones, Papen, Robinson Pant 1999, DfID
Adult Literacy, a handbook for development workers, Fordham, Holland, Millican, 1995, Oxfam
Reading, Writing and Cultivating, a handbook for Literacy workers, based on experiences in Senegal,in English and French, Millican, 1990 & 1993, CESO
Recent conference papers
The Role of Higher Education in Post Conflict Societies. Millican 2009. Paper published by the Global University Network for Innovation.
Working with and Learning from Community Partners, Millican 2008, Paper prepared for CLT conference, Brighton.
What can Student Community Engagement programmes contribute to the development of citizenship in a society recovering from conflict? Millican 2008, Paper presented at higher education conference, Barcelona.
The role of Community University Partnerships in sustainable development, Millican 2007, paper presented at SD conference, Bournemouth.
Models of Mentoring, Enabling universities to support asylum seekers and refugees, Millican 2005, paper presented at HERAN conference, London.
Research supervision
Juliet is interested in supervising students in informal and higher education and in areas of citizenship and civil society.
- Richard Wallis: EdD Autonomy and Learner responsibility among first year undergraduate students, (current)
Background
As associate academic director of a Community University Partnership programme I have extensive experience in Higher Education in the UK, particularly in the introduction of experiential and reflective learning, student community engagement and the promotion of community/university partnerships. I also head up our international help desk supporting other universities in developing their own engaged partnership work.
I have over 20 years experience of adult and continuing education in the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia in the fields of Adult Literacy, community education and HE. Much of this has included project proposal writing and management , faciltiator training and curriclum development, materials design and participatory evaluation. I have been involved in capacity building projects in Egypt, The Gambia, Senegal, India, Nepal, Malawi and South Africa and responsible for project reporting and the management of advisory teams.
My current research interests include ctizenship and transformational learning in Higher Education, participation as a pedagogical approach and the contribution of a university to conflict resolution, community reconstruction and local development.
Teaching
- Course Leader: MA Communities:Engagement and Enterprise
- Contributions to MA programmes in Applied Social Science in areas of participation and democracy, partnerships with civil society
- Research supervision of student led modules (Learning by Objectives) and social and community research practice
Consultancy experience
2012 – Qatar, Doha: Consultancy training visit to Georgetown and Qatar Universities to develop Student Service Learning programme with Migrant Workers.
2011 – Senegal: Organisation of International Conference on Community University Partnerships in Africa with Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar
2010 – Dakar, Senegal, consultancy visits in support of an international partnership.
2009 – Dakar, Senegal, University partnership project consultancy visit on behalf of EPA, British Council
2008 – Bosnia and Hercegovina – Second phase of Action Research project
2007 – Bosnia and Hercegovina – Participatory action research project with Dzemal Bijedic university, East Mostar, into student community engagement.
2007 – Rajisthan, India, Doctoral research project into participatory approaches to literacy learning.
2006 – The Gambia – Participatory Evaluation of the REFLECT project, Action Aid
2005 – The Gambia – Project Management visit to the Gambian Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, on behalf of Education for Devleopment.
2004 – A series of consultancy visits on behalf of the British Council for CELL (Curriculum Enhancement for Lifelong Literacy) in order to develop teacher support materials for Adult Literacy Pathways curricula.
2004 – The Gambia, project management visits, plus training for literacy teachers
2003 – Cairo, British Council, Leading Curriculum Design team working on rewriting Adult Literacy Curriculum and developing a Teacher's Guide.
2003 – The Gambia, project management visits and organisation and management of Ugandan exchange visit to the Gambia from UNAD.
2002 – The Gambia and Egypt, ongoing project management visits.
2002 – Presenter, New Literacies conference, Cape Town.
2001 – Nepal – Output to Purpose Review, Commumity Literacy, for DfID
2001 – Reserch and writing of advisory paper for DfID on Literacy and Poverty
2001 – The Gambia – project management and facilitator training
2001 – Cairo – Project management and development of training data base
2001 – Zimbabwe – Key speaker at Literacy working group, DfID
2001 – Project design and management, Gambian Association of the Deaf
2001 – Cairo – Facilitator training, and development of a series of tool kits for community development
2000 – Guinea – Sierra Leonian Refugee camps, Training of trainers in PRA, programme and materials design for a Literacy and Conflict resolution programme.
2000 – South Africa, final evaluation visit
