{"id":26012,"date":"2024-05-20T08:57:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T07:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=26012"},"modified":"2025-03-31T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:20:20","slug":"civic-universities-for-a-civil-society-unlearning-habits-of-impact-engagement-and-action-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/civic-universities-for-a-civil-society-unlearning-habits-of-impact-engagement-and-action-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Universities for a Civil Society: (Un)Learning Habits of Impact, Engagement, and Action for Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26014 size-full\" title=\"University of Birmingham\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Seminar-series-900x-1.png\" alt=\"City-REDI Seminar Series banner saying 'Welcome to the City-REDI seminar series', with a section of the Aston Webb dome on the right hand side, separated from the rest of the banner by 4 black lines\" width=\"900\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Seminar-series-900x-1.png 900w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Seminar-series-900x-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Seminar-series-900x-1-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Seminar-series-900x-1-250x140.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 16 May, City-REDI held its fourth external seminar of 2024, featuring Helen Jarvis from Newcastle University with an online webinar about community organising as a place-based theory and method of civic university engagement.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The seminar follows the publication of Professor Helen Jarvis&#8217;s paper &#8216;Community organising in higher education: activist community-engaged learning in geography&#8217;, highlighting the transformative potential of place-based community organising as both a theory and practice of progressive social change, and as a critical approach to the social purpose of community engagement in Higher Education Institutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Empirical vignettes from an enduring partnership between Newcastle University and Tyne and Wear Citizens (a chapter of Citizens UK) challenge the rhetoric of civic universities on community engagement, notions of \u2018impact\u2019 and the moral responsibility of universities and students to take an active role in civil society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Civic Universities for a Civil Society: UnLearning Habits of Impact, Engagement, Action for Change\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KuHRIeE9KWc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:<br \/>\nThe views expressed in this analysis post are those of the author and not necessarily those of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/research\/city-redi\">City-REDI<\/a>\/ WMREDI or the University of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=z8oksN7eQUKhXDyX1VPp8yWdezIigchHkCztz4L15OhUNDRTTFpLWUlZOVM5N1lCQlJXQ0o5NkZEUC4u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign up for our mailing list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 May, City-REDI held its fourth external seminar of 2024, featuring Helen Jarvis from Newcastle University with an online webinar about community organising as a place-based theory and method of civic university engagement. The seminar follows the publication of Professor Helen Jarvis&#8217;s paper &#8216;Community organising in higher education: activist community-engaged learning in geography&#8217;, highlighting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/civic-universities-for-a-civil-society-unlearning-habits-of-impact-engagement-and-action-for-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Civic Universities for a Civil Society: (Un)Learning Habits of Impact, Engagement, and Action for Change&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2235,"featured_media":26014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[848],"tags":[1675,1677,438,1674,1676,794],"class_list":["post-26012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-universities","tag-action","tag-city-redi-seminar-series","tag-civic-universities","tag-engagement","tag-helen-jarvis","tag-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28200,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions\/28200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}