Community-University Engagement and Praxis

Introduction: The benefits and challenges of community-university engagement - Kush May-Chahal, Floor Mijland and Saskia Postema


PART I: Strategic frameworks for community-university engagement


1. Ushering a new era of development through community-university engagement in India: opportunities,


challenges and policy implications - Anshuman Karol and Nikita Rakhyani


2. Incentivising university senior leadership to invest in community engagement: reflections on the experience


at the universities of Birmingham and Swansea - Martin Stringer


3. What's in it for whom? Community-university collaborations in engaged education: a case study from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Frederique Demeijer, Laura de Groot, Marjolein Zweekhorst


and Geertje Tijsma


4. Engagement ecotone: a call for a recalibration of societal attitudes towards a community-university-driven just city - Craig Lee Martin, Arthur De Jaeger, Mandy Koenraads, Saskia Postema, Pieke Hoekstra, Tako Postma, Gilbert de Nijs,


Theo van Drunen, Jan Paul Peters, Melissa Campos, Madevi Sewnath, Kim My On and Juan Carlos Prazmowski


PART II: Cultural and local contexts in community-university engagement


5. University-community engagement in the Global South: experience on local heritage and citizen science


projects at Universidade Lurio in Mozambique - Innocent Hakizimana Abubakar


6. Philosophy Outside the Walls: teaching students and society the value of applied philosophy - Yorick Karseboom


7. Service learning in the Philippines: origins, growth and development - Mark Anthony D. Abenir


8. Dance on Prescription: a cultural addition to healthcare and vice versa - Radboud Droog, Marlien Seinstra, Nynke Doelle and Floor Mijland


9. Unshackling minds: applied psychology approaches to community-university engagement in the Caribbean - Tracy A. McFarlane and Sophia S. Morgan


PART III: Capacity building and empowerment through community-university engagement


10. The University for Birmingham: working with citizens to co-create research - Kush May-Chahal and Giulia Pizzolini


11. Nurturing sustainable university-community engagement in Tanzania: lessons from St Augustine University of


Tanzania and University of Dodoma - David Haruna Mrisho and Okechukwu Chukwuma


12. The transformative power of social-artistic co-creation: grassroots innovation through community engagement - Rose Figdor, Wytske Lankester, Hans Schouwenburg and Lisbeth Verharen


13. Science Together with Tunisian communities: co-creating public health interventions - Asma Ferchichi, Hassine Karim Glaied, Siwar Nsibi and Dorra Rezig


14. Rules of engagement: preserving academic values in impactful collaborations with public sector partners - Albert Meijer, Mirko Tobias Schaefer and Floris Bex


Conclusion: Opening the doors for community-university engagement - Kush May-Chahal, Floor Mijland and Saskia Postema