EPIC

CKI / EPIC Events – Semester 2 – 2013

Please see below information on upcoming events at the Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI), NUI Galway. All events are free of charge, everybody welcome.  

Further information available from Ann Lyons, EPIC Coordinator, ann.lyons@nuigalway.ie.

Places are limited so please book a place by emailing Mary Bernard at mary.bernard@nuigalway.ie

Workshop - Doing Action Research

Professor Jean McNiff, Independent Researcher

Date:               Tuesday 26^th February

Time:              10.00 am –4.00 pm

Venue:             Room SC200A, The Concourse, NUI Galway

Event Details

This event is a full-day workshop and will address issues regarding the principles and practices of action research, and how it differs from other approaches to research. The workshop will examine aspects of the research process such as developing research questions, collecting data and generating evidence, as well as the key issue of how to make judgements about the quality of action and research, and how to test the validity of knowledge claims. It will also consider how to write up your action research and make it public for wider use. The workshop will be interactive throughout, so be prepared to participate and have some fun. 

Professor Jean McNiff is an independent researcher who works in a wide variety of settings, including the community and voluntary sector, schools, colleges and universities. She holds a part-time position as Professor of Educational Research at York St. John University in the UK and Visiting Professorships at the University ofTromsø, Norway, the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa, and Beijing Normal University and the Ningxia Teachers’ University, People’s Republic of China. In describing her work, Professor McNiff says “The main thing I try to do is share workable ideas in a way that enables people to say to themselves, ‘I can do this too’”.

To book a place at this workshop please contact Mary Bernard. on or before Friday 22nd February

Workshop - Using a Logic Model Approach to Evaluation

Siobhán McGrory, Independent Consultant and Trainer

Date:               Friday 22^nd March 2013

Time:              10.00 am –1.00 pm

Venue:             The View, Áras na MacLéinn, NUI Galway

Event Details

This event is a half-day workshop (morning) and will provide an introduction to a practical Logic Model framework for planning and measuring outcome-focused work, examining what is an outcome-focused approach and why it may be useful to work in this way.

Siobhán McGrory works as an Independent Consultant and Trainer. Over the past number of years she has provided training and support to a broad range of organisations in applying an outcome-focused approach to their work and in the development of Logic Models. She has considerable experience in project management, planning, evaluation, policy development and partnership working as well as mentoring and professional development of staff in a broad range of workplaces. She has also lectured to post graduate level for the Department of Health Promotion, at NUI, Galway.

To book a place at this workshop please contact Mary Bernard. on or before Tuesday 19th March.

CKI 10th Anniversary Lecture - Knowledge Democracy: What is it and Why is it important?

Professor Budd Hall, Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Date:               Wednesday 10^th April 2013

Time:              11.00am – 1.00pm

Venue:            Siobhán McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway

Event Details

This lecture will discuss future possibilities in the area of community-university engagement at NUI Galway, exploring practices associated with community-based research and the opportunities for the co-creation of knowledge between the university and the wider community. Professor Hall will draw on his pivotal work in Canada where he has been centrally involved in the development of community-based research in higher education. It promises to be a thought-provoking lecture that will provide inspirational ideas for community-university collaborations in the area of community-based research.  

Professor Budd Hall is Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and Professor of Community Development in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and Secretary of the Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research, Budd was the founding Director of the University of Victoria Office of Community-based Research and Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Studies.  Former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, Budd Hall has served as the Chair of the Adult Education Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education or the University of Toronto from 1995-2001 and as the Secretary-General of the International Council for Adult Education from 1979-1991.  Budd has worked in Nigeria, Tanzania, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Thailand, Yemen, Uganda, England, and the United States.  He has done both theoretical and practical work for almost 40 years in various aspects of community-based adult education and learning and participatory research. He has served as President, Chair or Vice-President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, International Council for Adult Education, Canadian Network for Democratic Learning, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Coady International Institute Advisory Board. He is a member of the International Adult Education Hall of Fame and was selected for the 2005 Canadian Bureau of International Education Innovation in International Education Award.  He is the husband of Dr. Darlene Clover, father of Dana and Shawn Hall, Grandfather of Quincy Pugh Hall and Ashton Edward Hall.  He is also a poet.

To book a place at this lecture please contact Mary Bernard. on or before Monday 8th April

Workshop - Community Arts / Socially Engaged Arts in practice

Professor Darlene Clover, University of Victoria, Canada

Date:                          Wednesday 10^th April 2013

Time:                          10.00am – 1.00pm

Venue:                        The View, Áras na MacLéinn, NUI Galway

Event Details

Oriented towards those involved in community-based arts as well as interested staff and students in the university, this half-day workshop will look at the definitions, potentials and challenges of community based and socially engaged arts practices.

Darlene E. Clover is Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, Canada. Before coming to the university in the early 2000s, she coordinated a global programme on environmental adult education for the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE).  Her areas of teaching in the university include community, cultural and ecological leadership, adult, feminist and arts-based education and participatory and arts-based research methods. Darlene has spent many years exploring and promoting the activist work of community-based educator-artists.  Her current studies (and activist work) focus on the Human Library project in Victoria and Ottawa and other critical adult education work in libraries, galleries and museums in Canada and the United Kingdom. Her most recent books include The arts and social justice: Recrafting adult education and community cultural leadership (NIACE, 2007) and Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural development and the contemporary university: International Perspectives (In Press, Manchester University Press).

To book a place at this workshop please contact Mary Bernard. on or before Monday 8th April

Workshop - Doing Community-based Research

Professor Budd Hall & Professor Darlene Clover

Date:               Thursday 11^th April 2013

Time:              10.00am – 4.00pm

Venue:            Seminar Room, Moore Institute, NUI Galway

Event Details

This day-long workshop will be co-facilitated by Professors Darlene Clover and Budd Hall and will look at the practical issues involved in establishing and sustaining community-university research partnerships. This event should be of interest to university staff and students and those involved in community and voluntary organisations.

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Ann Lyons | Community Knowledge Initiative |  National University of Ireland Galway | Galway | Ireland

Phone: +353 (0)91 492228 | Mobile: 087 7677080 | Email: ann.lyons@nuigalway.ie