Power/Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge exchange is important for the mission of universities.
Through the lens of community organising, we help build power to make univeristies and communities the place it should be. Supported by a local network and tools, you can write what happens next, and achieve more for young people. Through the building of collective institutional power in places, we can win change that we're unable to achieve by ourselves. Citizens UK's Power/KE project sees universities as important to this mission.
Power Knowledge Exchange - Communities of Practice
After a conference with 120 HE leaders from 35 universities hosted by QMUL in January 2023, we are actively supporting four HEI communities of practice.
- Community Organising and the Civic University agenda
- Universities and a real Living Wage
- Curriculum development through Community Organising
- Student Unions and Broad-Based Organising
Higher Education Conference: Universities as Civic Actors and Agents of Social Justice
The renewed focus on a university’s civic obligations to its immediate geographical community opens up the possibility of rethinking the public role of universities. This includes the prospect of universities engaging much more directly in social justice work with other local civic partners.
Our conference on Wednesday 5 June, 9:30am-5pm, will explore how universities can use broad-based organising to win change.
Case Studies
Teaching
- Cardiff University - Community Jobs Compact (masters business school students)
- University of Essex - Democracy in Action module (final year undergraduates)
- Queen Mary of University of London - Civil Society Internship (final year politics undergraduates)
- University College London’s Institute of Education - Free School Meals for those with No Recourse to Public Funds (second year education students)
Research
- Aston University - Local Economic and Industrial Policy
- University of Birmingham - Environmental Research and Civil Society
- University of Nottingham / Nottingham Trent University - Misogyny as a Hate Crime
Engagement (Civic)
- Aston University - Health Outcomes in East Birmingham
- King's College London - Parent Power
- King’s College London - King’s Refugee Community Sponsorship Scheme
- King’s College London - Latin American representation
- University of Newcastle - Social Renewal in the North East
Engagement (Internal)
- University of Loughborough - Collective Anti-Racist Efforts
