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

Changing World

Intolerant governments across the globe are “slowly crushing” activist and advocacy groups that play an essential role in the development of democracy

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2010

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

The world we want