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Working with you

The University of Brighton actively works with community groups and organisations to help our local communities to thrive, and to improve teaching and research.

Our Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) aims to bring together local people, voluntary organisations and university staff and students to share the different types of knowledge that they hold, for the benefit of all parties. 

We work together to solve problems and develop working relationships that help local communities and the university in the long term. Our approach takes an active approach to problem solving to achieve enduring outcomes for both community and university partners.

Working with CUPP

CUPP can offer a range of national and international support to universities and civil society organisations to explore the potential for partnership working in their local content and to share our experience in:

  • Addressing marginalisation and inequality issues through local partnerships
  • Embedding social engagement into university policy, teaching and research
  • Ensuring the university knowledge base is accessible to its local community

We offer support in:

  • Strategic change - changes within organisational structure and planning to accommodate partnership work
  • Research - approaches to community based research
  • Teaching - developing curricula that facilitates engagement
  • Discipline-based projects - developing project ideas in specific discipline areas
  • Practical - managing partnerships and building relationships
  • Evaluating - helping assess the impact of work
  • Access - identifying community priorities and navigating the university

Working closely with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) we have also provided support to various UK universities in their engagement work.

We have also worked internationally with universities in Senegal, Cameron, Ethiopia, Qatar, Pakistan, India, Bosnia, Belgium, Canada and the US and are currently involved in a cross European Erasmus project on sharing experience of community university engagement.

CUPP in action

Ignite project on making the arts more accessible

Our Ignite programme

Find and fostering community-university partnerships

Detail of an inclusive art student project (drawing of a figure)

Students in the community 

Take a look at how our students put theory into practice.

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