Community Development

Nematollah Azizi - Leverhulme Visiting Professor within CR&DALL

We are very pleased to announce that Nematollah Azizi from the University of Kurdistan, Iran, has been appointed as Leverhulme Visiting Professor within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, hosted within CR&DALL. We are most grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for funding this position from January 2023 for 12 months, and very much look forward to Nematollah's stay with us. He was previously a collaborator in our British Academy, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)- funded project, Strengthening Urban Engagement of Universities in Asia and Africa (SUEUAA).

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Thursday, 15 December, 2022

Water and Fire: Enhancing capacity and reducing risk through 15 'Best Bets' for transformative adaptation with vulnerable residents on the Cape Flats

This project has been brought to CR&DALL by Anna Wilson, who recently joined us from the University of Stirling. Two interconnected, mutually exacerbating global trends are putting an ever-increasing number of people at risk of environmental hazards or disasters: the climate crisis and increasing urbanization.

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Wednesday, 14 December, 2022

Role of ALE in the Development of Local Communities 

An international conference took place in Chisinau, Moldova on 9-10 November 2022 on the role of ALE in the development of local communities with extensive participation from Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo and the Ukraine. It was part of the DVV International Regional Project for Eastern Neighbours and jointly organized with the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA). In addition to the countries mentioned above there were interesting case studies also from Germany, Greece and Sweden as well as the European Training Foundation (ETF).

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Monday, 5 December, 2022

PASCAL Learning Cities Networks gets off the ground again with a conference on ‘Learning from Crises'

The 2022 PASCAL Conference has taken place on the theme of Learning & Crisis: Future Proofing City Responses. The conference was organised by the University of Tampere , Finland. The Faculty of Management and Business Studies played host to around 80 participants from countries with around 30 participants joining online.

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Thursday, 27 October, 2022
ALA Quest - Issue 3, 2022

ALA Quest - Issue 3, 2022

Welcome to our latest issue of Quest featuring stories and news about life-changing adult education programs around Australia.

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Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
Missing Millions: Considering the untapped potential of millions of working-age people in the UK

Missing Millions: Considering the untapped potential of millions of working-age people in the UK

This report presents research that provides an understanding of the current impact of the low levels of investment in training in the UK and, in addition, tries to quantify how many people’s potential contribution to society is being squandered as a result of not having access to regular skills development. And the inevitable impact of that on social mobility.

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Monday, 12 September, 2022
Education Inequalities

Education Inequalities

This report by Christine Farquharson, Sandra McNally & Imran Tahir draws on extensive evidence to further our understanding of education inequalities in today’s world. The focus is education inequalities in the United Kingdom (UK), and predominantly in England.

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Monday, 12 September, 2022

Author(s): 

Mike Osborne
Roberta Piazza
Zenaida Reyes

Working Paper: 

WP1001/2022

ISSN: 

2397-057X

In this paper, we consider the roles that HEIs can have with wider society in pursuit of an agenda of social responsibility through contributing expertise to the service of communities that reflects locally defined needs and demands.

In particular, our concern will about the role played by HEIs in overcoming the refugee and migrant crisis that many countries face and contributing to development of societies capable in handling the diversities and differences in society.

We posit that there is potential for a new model of societal impact that might surface, more willing “to positively recognize diversity and help minorities maintain cultural and religious practices while integrating them into public life” (Wright & Bloemraad 2012, p. 78), as well as to foster greater social cohesion (Koopmans 2013), if these activities are strengthened as a part of institutions’ activities.

Citation: 

Osborne, M., Piazza, R. and Reyes, Z. (2022) Universities' community engagement in Europe and Southeast Asia: supporting immigrants and refugees. CR&DALL Working Paper. CR&DALL WP1001/2022, CR&DALL, Glasgow (UK).

Keywords: 

Universities, migration, communities, activities, migrants, development

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Thursday, 18 August, 2022
You are invited to the launch of Adult Learners Week 2022 – #ConnectWithLearning

You are invited to the launch of Adult Learners Week 2022 – #ConnectWithLearning

Adult Learning Australia invites you to celebrate adults who have connected with learning and changed their lives at the Adult Learners Week 2022 launch on 1 September.

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Thursday, 18 August, 2022
Are adult learners in Europe happier than non-learners? Professor Ellen Boeren

Are adult learners in Europe happier than non-learners? Professor Ellen Boeren

This paper borrows insights from the literature on European welfare regimes to analyse the relationship between happiness and participation in adult education. The academic literature and policy discourses on adult education tend to claim that participation in learning is correlated with happiness despite the lack of strong European comparative empirical evidence on this topic.

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Thursday, 14 April, 2022

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