Dr Martin Galvin - Strengthening the Civic Mission of Higher Education
Channel: Epidemiology and Public Health UCC
Date: 2017-05-18

This seminar discusses the civic mission of Ireland's universities and the work being done nationally via Ireland's Campus Engage initiative to promote this. The results of the self-evaluation exercise conducted by UCC, under the guidance of the Carnegie Foundation, show the potential UCC has to differentiate itself as a leading civically engaged university; particularly in the area of Community Based Research and Learning. We discuss some of the practicalities involved in structuring community partnerships and the importance of researching and learning with and not on communities.  Finally we discuss the role engaged scholarship can play - across research, teaching and service in the College of Medicine and Health - in developing partnerships that promote social justice, public health and environmental sustainability.