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Thursday, 18 March 2010
Saturday, 5 September 2009
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
JISC Content Conference 29th June 2009
Delivered a session: Beyond the Library Walls -- the Benefits, Challenges and
Opportunties of Public Engagement.
Opportunties of Public Engagement.
I was able to use the excellent case study examples of Mapping Creativity and the MMU
Public Engagement Fellows to illustrate how use of Social Media has opened up the dialogue
between HE and external audiences. HE is moving towards an understanding that one
directional knowledge transfer is a poor example of what the outcomes can be if we open
ourselves to ideas and influences from outside the university.
Colleagues from Manchester on the Mimos project are making contact next week following the
presentation.
Sarah O'Donnell on the train going through the Cotswolds
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Friday, 15 May 2009
Corporate Social Resposibility and Public Engagement
Interesting chat on the bus today after Notre Dame. Basically Notre Dame University has the most beautiful campus that you have ever seen including an 85,000 seater-stadium, a golden dome, a recreation of the grotto in Lourdes, a lake etc. However these amazing facilities are not used by local people at all - only by the students. And the University doesn't really make it easy for local people to come and visit - they make the community park their cars right at the periphery of the campus, there's issues around security etc.
Part of my mission at MMU is to make the campus more accessible to local people - I want to find ways to share, not just the knowledge but the physical resources that we have but the question is whether this activity is seen to be part of public engagement? Or whether it is corporate social responsibility. I don't see how you can be effective at public engagement without being a good neighbour? But I realise that this makes the whole debate around what is public engagement even more complicated than it already is...we've heard so many different terms on this trip - civic engagement, public engagement, community engagement, outreach etc. Adding one more element to this could tip things over the edge.
Part of my mission at MMU is to make the campus more accessible to local people - I want to find ways to share, not just the knowledge but the physical resources that we have but the question is whether this activity is seen to be part of public engagement? Or whether it is corporate social responsibility. I don't see how you can be effective at public engagement without being a good neighbour? But I realise that this makes the whole debate around what is public engagement even more complicated than it already is...we've heard so many different terms on this trip - civic engagement, public engagement, community engagement, outreach etc. Adding one more element to this could tip things over the edge.
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