RT: Gwyneth calls out prisons policy going backwards - again! When will we get a grip to make government make real progress here? xitter.cf/jurgengrotz/status/101…
theguardian.com/society/2018… by Gwyneth Boswell
Visiting professor, School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia
This redoubled our efforts to work for this answer to “What is a University?” And what it should be! xitter.cf/uea_ucu/status/9754083…
Michael Kyriacou's astonishing speech from Friday's Rally for the Future of Higher Education. Is what we're fighting for any clearer now @UniversitiesUK @UEA_VC? #USStrike #afinestrike xitter.cf/jemiddleton22/status/9…
@JEBounford We have to respect and support how rural communities can build connectivity for alliances #arvac2014
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#arvac2014 What are the boundaries? Government will constantly test them. May need to stop calling it volunteering at some point.
@JEBounford Ockenden thinks the govt is finally realising volunteering needs infrastructure - can't just be cut loose
@respros N Ockenden: volunteering shaped by technology, ageing pop trends, state views/funding - effects on connectivity?
@respros Pearce argues for building on locality-based opportunities for extending connectivity
@katygoldstraw Prof Pearce argues how to make community ideals real in the real world - draw on the power of numbers to do what matters!
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#ARVACausterity The missing stages are sustainability and transformation
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Interested in #impact & #community #participation in #research? Great resource from #UEAFulbrightEvents at tinyurl.com/q9k62mb via @ARVAC
Steve Martin asks what proactive engagement adds to research - diversity makes it more robust #UEAFulbrightEvents
@UEAFPol: Susanne Martikke tells VCS to resist research colonialism by setting own research goals #UEAFulbrightEvents
Susanne Martikke says VCS cuts can spur creative researching with academics to show impact #UEAFulbrightEvents
Carol Pound examines aphasia friendship participatory action (research) outside and inside academic research constraints
#UEAFulbrightEvents Sally McVicker on CONNECT volunteer work by and for people with aphasia as Conversation Partners sets up common practice
#UEAFulbrightEvents Beresford argues for shortest distance of research to challenge distorting and isolating views of diverse groups
#ueafulbrightevents Beresford says community is torn by global events like war - self-accounts of the impact of war counter easy compliance
#UEAFulbrightEvents ARVAC members are aiming the keep the focus on amplifying community voice and research for community actions