Category: In the News

Following the first session of the Workshop held in January 2019, Dr. Rajesh Tandon, Founder-President of PRIA and Co-Chair, UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, facilitated the second phase of the training from 22nd … Continue reading →

On 2nd March 2019, Dr. Budd Hall (University of Victoria & Co-chair, UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research & Social Responsibility in Higher Education) held a consultation with TEFCE (Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education). The … Continue reading →

An awards scheme, founded by the University of Brighton in memory of its former Vice-Chancellor Sir David Watson, has been relaunched and is inviting applications from around the world. The ‘Professor Sir David Watson Award for Community-University Partnerships’ recognises the … Continue reading →

This call is an invitation to potential partnerships from the global South to consider applying to become a hub in the K4C Global Consortium. Background The UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education was created … Continue reading →

“We are excited to share with you the new website of the Rethinking Research Collaborative (https://rethinkingresearchcollaborative.com) and the outputs from the programme of strategic research and capacity strengthening that have been implementing for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The project … Continue reading →

Brianna Strumm, Carleton University, has reviewed our book “Strengthening Community University Research Partnerships: Global Perspectives by Hall, B., Tandon, R. and Tremblay, C. (eds.)” in Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, Volume 3/Issue 2/Fall 2017. Read the full … Continue reading →

The first International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals: Actors and Implementation, which was organized by the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi), took place from 18-19 September 2017 in Barcelona. Academics, researchers, policy-makers, managers, civil society organizations, governmental agencies and businesses convened … Continue reading →

Current global trends suggest a time of exciting possibility for scholars as critical, community-engaged, and participatory epistemologies come to the fore. In line with this school of though and through this book on ‘Dissident Knowledge’, Noam Chomsky, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, … Continue reading →

Prof Budd Hall, UNESCO Co-Chair will be speaking at a public forum at the University of Toronto on March 2, 2018 on ‘The Socially Responsive University: Knowledge Democracy and Community Engagement’. The topic of his address will be Beyond the … Continue reading →

On Monday the 29th of January at the University of Helsinki, Budd Hall presented the first Orlando Fals Borda Lifetime achievement award in community-based research to Dr. Marja-Liisa Swantz of Finland.  The award, created by the UNESCO Chair in CBR … Continue reading →