Building Community University Partnership Resilience

该项目推动了一个真正的、战略性的社区大学合作伙伴关系，在互联社区计划和其他项目中发挥作用。它启动了一场文化转变，承认社区参与研究对于理解和促进社区大学合作至关重要。推动社区伙伴和学者参与社区大学伙伴关系工作的一个因素是，这些项目具有改善社会条件和解决不平等问题的潜力。随着越来越多的合作伙伴关系产生积极影响，英国社区和大学之间的合作作为社会变革的一种工具正在获得动力。然而，社区合作伙伴在有效参与与大学学者的个人伙伴关系以及影响和促进良好做法的更大的战略决策小组方面存在一个重大能力问题。例如，虽然许多学者有机会通过参加会议和获得教师资助来支持任何持续的学习，但社区合作伙伴很少有机会见面或建立网络来分享他们的经验和增加他们的知识库。他们参与的资金很难获得。到目前为止，我们所知道的关于什么有助于和阻碍社区大学伙伴关系工作的大部分都是从学术角度提出的。没有机会学习社区合作伙伴的经验，并将其用于改善未来的工作和相关的高等教育政策。我们希望为英国范围内的社区合作伙伴网络奠定基础，该网络一旦形成，将影响高等教育的政策和实践：1：社区合作伙伴共同撰写了这份申办，并将领导实现其与社区动员和包容有关的目标。一个学术参与小组将与社区合作伙伴并行工作。我们计划首先召集20名经验丰富的社区合作伙伴，分享他们的成功，反思挑战，并确定有希望的做法，以支持伙伴关系努力解决社会不平等问题。为此，我们将创建一个由社区合作伙伴和其他人组成的核心规划小组，以利用我们北美合作伙伴的专业知识，在2012年6月组织首届英国广泛社区合作伙伴峰会。通过创建一个安全的空间，让合作伙伴可以公开和自由地探索他们与大学合作的经验，我们希望建立社区合作伙伴的能力，以影响他们合作的大学，并在国家层面分享从中学到的东西，为HEFCE的政策和资金提供信息。首脑会议的规划将通过整理CCP、Beacons和SECC项目确定的经验教训和共同关切的问题来提供信息。2：首脑会议应激励和鼓舞与会者，使他们帮助推动首脑会议在地方、区域和国家各级提出的建议和行动。这种经验应该有助于维持和建立社区伙伴的韧性，使他们感到适合就权力、公平、共同决策、资金和可持续发展等问题进行对话并影响政策。将设立工作组，为社区伙伴为首脑会议后续活动作出贡献提供工具/机制。这一阶段的一个重要特点是，社区伙伴和共产党学者将在初次首脑会议后立即举行会议，继续对话和采取行动，以产生高质量的成果。3：我们将为一个自给自足的社区合作伙伴论坛创建一个中心，以便在项目资金停止时集体分享和学习峰会。至关重要的是，通过该项目建立的能力可供未来的国家方案使用，并为个别大学、高等教育机构和研究理事会的战略发展提供支持。项目后资源将通过NCCPE网站上的专门存在提供给学术界和社区合作伙伴使用

This project advances an authentic, strategic community university partnership working across the Connected Communities Programme and beyond. It kick starts a cultural shift that acknowledges community engagement in research as essential to understanding and promoting community university collaborations. One of the drivers for community partners and academics engaged in community university partnership working is the potential these ventures have for improving social conditions and tackling inequalities. Collaboration between communities and universities in the UK as a device for social change is gaining impetus, as more and more partnerships produce findings that demonstrate positive impact. However, there is a major capacity issue for community partners to participate effectively both in individual partnerships with university academics and in the larger strategic policy making groups that have impact and promote good practice. For example, whilst many academics have the opportunity to support any ongoing learning by attending conferences and securing faculty buyouts, community partners rarely get to meet or network to share their experiences and increase their knowledge base. Funding for their participation is hard to acquire. So far, the majority of what we know about what helps and hinders community university partnership working has been presented from an academic viewpoint. The chance to learn from community partner experience and feed this into improving future working and related HE policy is overlooked. We want to set the foundation for a UK wide community partner network that once formed, will influence HE policy and practice:1: Community partners have co-written this bid and will lead on delivering its objectives in relation to community mobilisation and inclusion. An academic engagement group will work in parallel with community partners. We plan to start by bringing together a group of 20 experienced community partners to share their successes, reflect on the challenges and identify promising practices that support partnership working to tackle social inequalities. To do this, we will create a core planning group of community partners and others, to organise the first UK wide community partner Summit in June 2012, drawing on the expertise of our North American partners. By creating a safe space at which partners can explore their experiences of working with universities openly and freely, we hope to build community partner capacity to influence both the university that they work with and share the learning from this at a national level to inform HEFCE policy and funding. Summit planning will be informed by collating the learning and common issues of concern identified by the CCP, Beacons and SECC projects. 2: The Summit should inspire and enthuse attendees so that they help advance the recommendations and actions from the Summit at local, regional and national levels. The experience should help sustain and build the resilience of community partners so that they feel fit to shape conversations and influence policy regarding issues of power, equity, shared decision making, funding and sustainability. Working groups will be established to provide the vehicle/mechanism for community partners to contribute to Summit follow-up activities. A significant feature of this stage will involve community partners and CCP academics meeting together to continue dialogue and action immediately after the initial Summit to produce high quality outputs. 3: We will create a hub for a self-sustaining community partner forum to collectively share and learn from the Summit when project funding ceases. It is vital that the capacity built through this project is available to future CCPs and feeds into strategic developments for individual universities, HEFCE and the Research Councils. Post project resources will be available for academics and community partners to use, hosted through a dedicated presence on the NCCPE website