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:
Seizing the Current Policy Moment: Re-thinking the Geography of Higher Education
In a recent WONKHE article about the implications of the Budget for higher education (HE), Justine Andrew and Debbie McVitty explore how to move the conversation about strategic collaboration in HE from speculative to practical ...
Prototyping the Civic Impact Dashboard
Prototyping the Civic Impact Dashboard Adira Andlay and Jess Redmond, Senior Researchers at the Institute for Community Studies at The Young Foundation, share their insights about challenges higher education staff face in understanding their ...
NCIA reflections on The Geography of Higher Education in England and Wales
In October 2023, NCIA’s Policy & Partnership Manager John Fell accompanied the OECD team on a week of meetings with case-study university ‘clusters’, as research for the OECD’s report on The Geography of Higher Education ...
Challenging assumptions with user-centred design
Adira Andlay and Jess Redmond, Senior Researchers at the Institute for Community Studies at The Young Foundation, discuss their learnings about data needs for university civic impact and the dangers of assumption-based decision making ...