Towards a new architecture of knowledge: the office of community-based research 40 TH ANNIVERSARY SCUTREA – University of Warwick BUDD L HALL & LISE BERUBE, UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Towards a new architecture of knowledge: the office of community-based research
40TH ANNIVERSARY SCUTREA –University of Warwick
BUDD L HALL & LISE BERUBE, UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, BRITISH
COLUMBIA
Intolerant governments across the globe are “slowly crushing” activist and advocacy groups that play an essential role in the development of democracy
Canadian Contexts• Universities are Provincial responsibility
• Research Funding is a federal responsibility
• Canada recovering through deep cuts to social sector
• Minority Tory federal government
• Massive ecological footprint
Henry Marshall Tory“The modern state university is a people’s institution. The people demand knowledge shall not be the concern of scholar’s alone. The uplifting of the whole people shall be its final goal”
Henry Marshall tory- 1908
Frontier College - 1899
Faculty of extension-University of alberta-1912
Antigonish movement-ST. Francis Xavier-1930s-40s
Participatory research-OISE, University of Toronto-1970s
A canadian heritage
engagement rediscovered
Community-University Research Alliance-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Harris Centre at memorial University, Newfoundland
Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria
Extension at U of A Leads Engaged Scholarship
International Expressions
Community-University Partnership Project, University of Brighton
Science Shop of Wales
Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)
Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity
Beacons of Public Engagement, UK
“...the academy must become a more vigorous partner in the search for answers to our most pressing social, civic, economic, and moral problems, and must reaffirm its historic commitment to what I call the scholarship of engagement.”
Ernest Boyer, 1996
Dimensions of Engaged Scholarship
Community-Based Research
Community Service Learning
Continuing Education and Extension
Cooperative Education
Indigenous-Centred Research
Performance and the arts
Knowledge Mobilisation
University of VictoriaSteering Council on Civic Engagement
Office of Community-Based Research
Office of Cooperative Education
Office of Indigenous Affairs
Language in strategic plan
CHALLENGES
different knowledge cultures between and University and community
Funding patterns
Tracking contacts and results
tenure and promotion
getting buy-in across the full university
measuring impact
different knowledge cultures
joint community-university leadership
community-university engaged scholarship Institutes
academic support for advocacy issues
partnership agreements
payment to community researchers
Funding patternsAdvocacy for research funding to community researchers
creating partnership development grants
multiple funding packages
10 year partnerships
Data bases and tracking systems
Beyond the Expertise Data-Base: Yaffle to the Rescue?
tracking systems-trent university model?
Public access to university data bases?
Libraries rock!- university of victoria
recognizing excellence for tenure and promotion
Support for portfolio development
Broadening the concept of peers
Leadership
Visibility for those who succeed
campus wide discussions
Links to evolving practices elsewhere
Getting buy-in
Leadership
strategic planning
new structures
Listening to others
changing reward structures
measuring impactpublic access to facilities
public access to knowledge
student engagement
faculty engagement
widening participation
encouraging economic regeneration
institutional relationship and partnership building
from Angie Hart, Simon Northmore and Chloe Gehardt
National and GlobalCommunity-Based Research Canada
Canadian Alliance for Community service learning
global alliance for community engaged research
Les Talloires
global university networks for innovation