Welcome to CiviCast: our new regular series of podcasts and blog posts, amplifying the voices shaping the future of civic universities and the places they call home.
CiviCast is the platform for a range of opinions, views and commentary on the UK's civic university movement, designed to spark dialogues that illuminate the contribution that universities and other anchor institutions can make to the places they call home, and debate solutions to the challenges they face on their journey. Whether you prefer to read our blog or listen to our podcasts, we invite you to join the conversation.
Do you have a civic story to tell, or an idea to maximise the impact of place-based collaboration? Get in touch to contribute to this new series!
Adam Leach, NCIA Programme Director
CiviCast
A new and regular series of podcasts from the National Civic Impact Accelerator, available wherever you get your podcasts!
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CiviCast Debate Stage
Blogs and opinion from a range of voices across the civic university movement:
NCIA Action Learning Event: Reflecting, Learning, and Looking Ahead
T he NCIA Action Learning Programme came together for its final in-person event in Birmingham in March. It was a day designed not just to mark the end of a journey but to serve as ...
Beyond Boroughs: Universities Collaborating for a Thriving Capital
The capital, a vibrant and complex ecosystem, is home to over 100 universities, a diverse array of institutions ranging from specialist colleges to large, multi-faculty universities, private institutions and International outposts, spread across 33 local ...
Launching the Civic Impact Dashboard Prototype
After a User-Centred Design (UCD) process conducted over the last half of 2024, documented in previous blogs in this series, we are pleased to launch the first working prototype of the NCIA Civic Impact Dashboard.The ...
Resourcing Civic: Optimism in a Time of Crisis
Civic university teams are full of optimists. They're connectors, listeners, initiators. They're people who make things happen, often under the radar and unrewarded.Civic university teams need to be full of optimists because they're under intense ...