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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Blogs and opinion from a range of voices across the civic university movement:
How Universities Can Help Make “Place” Matter: Lessons from across the UK
A notable emergent theme in debates about the purpose and contribution of higher education has been a growing resonance of ‘place’ and demand for ‘place-based’ research with communities. This has in part been driven ...
Engaged universities and intelligent city/regions
In recent years, universities in Europe, North America and Australasia have begun to engage more effectively and collaboratively with local partners in the cities and regions in which they are located. Larger and more ...
Tackling the loss of trust in the HE sector
How universities can rebuild trust with their local communities, and the wider public, by becoming members of civic alliances “Everyone hates us!” he said. I had just come to the end of a meeting ...
The role of student leaders in supporting and facilitating civic activities
In Greg Burke’s recent blog reflecting on his journey from Whitehall to the heart of place-making, he asks, ‘how can we embed civic activity into institutions?’, sharing that ‘all too often, things fall away ...