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Does volunteering with refugees and migrants increase students’ political participation?

Posted on April 18, 2018 by rcharl00April 18, 2018

What are the benefits of student volunteering, beyond enhancing a CV or developing soft skills? Are there other talents developing or changes in behaviour less obvious and unintended when an undergraduate gives their time to a project or cause?   … Continue reading →

Posted in Higher Education, Participation, PhD experiences, Public engagement, Research

An unbroken chain of commitment that gives hope to victims of human rights violations

Posted on November 17, 2017 by rcharl00November 18, 2017

I have gone 28-hours without sleep. I was awake through the coldest night of winter so far with many other hardy souls from De Montfort University, Leicester, to demonstrate our solidarity with victims of breaches of human rights worldwide with … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Higher Education, Participation, Public engagement, Research | Tagged Civic Participation, higher education, Political engagement, Public engagement, student activism

Public Engagement Blog: Proaction Cafe creates debate about what Smart City should look like

Posted on May 12, 2017 by rcharl00May 12, 2017

Using waste ground coffee to grow mushrooms, create a make-do-and-mend culture and find ways to stimulate a ‘sharing economy’ were at least three ideas for a ‘Smart City’ I didn’t see coming. They were given to me at Leicester’s first Proaction … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Community Development, Higher Education, Participation, Public engagement, Research, Smart City | Tagged Leicester, Public engagement, Smart City

Public Engagement blog: The Why, Where, How, When and Who of academic blogging

Posted on May 7, 2017 by rcharl00May 10, 2017

Welcome to this lightning guide to the benefits of blogging at De Montfort University’s Research Conference for Doctoral and Early Career Researchers entitled: Your Research Journey: The challenges of writing. I have a blog that I update when I can. Often it … Continue reading →

Posted in Higher Education, Participation, PhD experiences, Public engagement, Research | Tagged Academic blogging, Blogging, good ideas, Learning, Leicester, Public engagement, student experience

Public Engagement blog: Design your life in an app and define what a Smart City could be…

Posted on February 26, 2017 by rcharl00February 26, 2017

What is a Smart City? Most people don’t know what a ‘Smart City’ is, and let’s face it why would they care? Even the most simplified definition, like this one, taken from Wikipedia, would switch off any man or woman in … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizen Science, Community Development, Participation, Public engagement, Research, Smart City | Tagged Leicester, Public engagement, Smart City

Public Engagement blog: Is austerity motivating students to volunteer in an era of tuition fees?

Posted on January 15, 2017 by rcharl00February 26, 2017

Here is a piece of writing that I did recently that ambitiously I was hoping to turn into a research paper and send to an academic journal. My PhD supervisors’ feedback was that the scope was too broad and I should … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Higher Education, PhD experiences, Public engagement, Research | Tagged austerity, higher education, Public engagement, student experience, tuition fees, volunteering

Public Engagement Blog: Students learning with Syrian refugees creates a powerful energy

Posted on September 3, 2016 by rcharl00September 4, 2016

In a gloomy, dank school gymnasium in a backstreet of Berlin I got a tiny insight into what life is like for the displaced people of Syria who find themselves trying to settle in Germany. One sports hall in the complex was … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Community Development, Public engagement, Research | Tagged #RefugeesWelcome, Berlin, Learning, Public engagement, Refugees, Syria

Public engagement blog podcast: Recreating the 1960s cinema experience

Posted on July 11, 2016 by rcharl00July 24, 2016

There’s nothing like a great piece of music, fashion or a movie to set the scene of the 1960s some of the most exciting and creative times in modern history. Earlier this month I was lucky enough to take part in … Continue reading →

Posted in Community Development, Higher Education, Participation, Public engagement, Research | Tagged 1960s, Cinema, Public engagement, Research

Public engagement blog: Understanding the public good of university lifelong learning activities in communities

Posted on April 14, 2016 by rcharl00July 24, 2016

I recently presented at the Annual Conference of the University Association of Life-long Learning at the University of Oxford. As I am not an academic, rather a practictioner as Head of Public Engagement at De Montfort University, I do not … Continue reading →

Posted in Higher Education, PhD experiences, Public engagement, Research | Tagged Public engagement

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