Category: Knowledge Production

Research for All is a new open-access journal focusing on research that involves universities and communities, services or industries working together. It highlights the potential in public engagement for robust academic study, development of involved communities and research that has impact. Theoretical … Continue reading →

The UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research & Social Responsibility in Higher Education is pleased to present it’s next open access publication; an e-book titled ‘Knowledge & Engagement: Building Capacity for the Next Generation of Community Based Researchers.’ This book … Continue reading →

The UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research is pleased to present before you, the two knowledge products emerging out of the IDRC supported study on Community University Research Partnerships. This research study investigated the structures that have been put in … Continue reading →

The UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education is pleased to present the User’s Manual on Institutionalizing Community University Research Partnerships. This is the second open access publication under the IDRC sponsored study on Mainstreaming … Continue reading →

Under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) sponsored project on ‘Training the Next Generation of Community Based Researchers‘, a global survey was undertaken that provides the much needed information about the current state-of-the-art in CBR training in various regions … Continue reading →

The practices of community-based research spring from the understanding that research and knowledge are not created and stored in the university, then disseminated to the general public, but that research and knowledge are influenced by and created in response to … Continue reading →

Under the IDRC Project on ‘Community University Research Partnerships’, a global survey was undertaken, to map community university research partnerships, the structures in this regard and the perspectives of various stakeholders. The survey results also documents the ‘best practices’ undertaken … Continue reading →

In the late 1990s, a Ugandan intellectual and civil society activist called Paulo Wangoola returned home to the Kingdom of Busoga on the Eastern shores of Lake Victoria. After 25 years of work in various parts of Africa and abroad, … Continue reading →

‘Over 3 decades PRIA has been engaging with Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to help them realize their social responsibility towards a community’s needs and aspirations. This has been one of the focal points of action under the UNESCO Chair in … Continue reading →