What is Civic Engagement?

The Community Knowledge Initiative supports and promotes the ethos of civic engagement among students, staff and the wider community.
 
We define civic engagement as:
a mutually beneficial knowledge-based collaboration between the higher education institution, its staff and students, with the wider community, through a range of activities including:
  • Service Learning / Community Based Learning
  • Community-Engaged research
  • Volunteering
  • Community / Economic regeneration
  • Capacity-building
  • Outreach programmes
  • Community-campus partnerships
  • Access / Widening Participation