Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Ph.D. program in Civil Society & Community Research at UW–Madison

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Dear SCRA members,

We are currently accepting applications for the Ph.D. program in Civil Society & Community Research (CSCR) in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The philosophy of the School of Human Ecology is that human development and well-being are promoted through the interactions between people and the ecological settings (organizations, social networks, communities) of which they are a part.

The CSCR program offers opportunities to conduct research in community settings, often in collaboration with community organizations or coalitions, and to become participant-scholars in change processes. Current students are involved in action research projects related to promoting positive youth development, civic engagement, health equity, primary prevention, youth-adult partnership, community organizing, and systems change. The CSCR program supports students to build expertise in mixed-methods research design that draws on theory from multiple disciplines. The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a dynamic research environment with leading graduate programs across the social sciences. It is also the state's land grant institution, and our faculty and students often conduct work in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin–Extension, offering additional opportunities for community-based research and outreach.

We are able to provide financial support for graduate studies through research and teaching assistantships that provide tuition remission and a stipend.

Applications must be received by: January 3rd, 2014 For additional information, please visit: http://www.sohe.wisc.edu/is/is-graduate-overview-of-degrees.htm
For questions related to the application process, please contact Liv Lindenberg [llindenberg@wisc.edu] For questions about the program, please feel free to contact me or other Human Ecology faculty.

Brian D. Christens

Assistant Professor, School of Human Ecology University of Wisconsin–Madison bchristens@wisc.edu

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

Latest Edition of Partnerships Available
 
Read the latest edition of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, North Carolina Campus Compact's peer-reviewed, online journal hosted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Volume 4 Number 2 (2013) includes:
  • Invited articles from Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Judith Ramaley, and Dr. William Muse;
  • Submitted articles from Dr. Alexa N Darby, Dr. Frances Ward-Johnson, Gabrielle Newman, Margot Haglund and Tammy Cobb of Elon University and Dr. Julie Shackford-Bradley of the University of California at Berkeley; and
  • Book Reviews from Dr. Susan Stinson and Dr. Cathy Hamilton of UNC Greensboro.


Call for Submissions: Partnerships 2015 Special Issue

The editorial staff of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement announces a special issue to be published in 2015 with guest editors Brandon W. Kliewer at Florida Gulf Coast University and Judith Ramaley, President Emerita, Portland and Winona State Universities. Please read in Volume 4, Issue 2, the complete call  for Reconsidering spaces of participation and democratic engagement: The public life of higher education reconsidered. We look forward to your interest, questions, and submissions.
Abstracts due: March 15, 2014
Final drafts due: October 30, 2014
Expected publication date: Summer 2015

Sunday, November 3, 2013

New issue of Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning!

[Announcement from Comm-engagedscholarship]

Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,

The Fall Issue (Volume 20 Number 1) of The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning is about to be released. Volume 20 Number 1 includes the following articles:

  *  Community as Teacher Model: Health Profession Students Learn Cultural
     Safety from an Aboriginal Community (Cathy Cline, William Godolphin,
     Gagun Chhina, and Angela Towle)
  *  The Relationship between Service-Learning and Degree Completion (Kelly
     Lockeman and Lynn Pelco)
  *  Act Local or Global?: Comparing Student Experiences in Domestic and
     International Service-Learning Programs (Elizabeth Niehaus and Lena
     Kavaliauskas Crain)
  *  Do University Communications About Campus-Community Partnerships Reflect
     Core Engagement Principles? (Christy Kayser Arrazattee, Marybeth Lima,
     and Lisa Lunday)
  *  Book Review Essays, including one by Dwight Giles, University of
     Massachusetts Boston and and Janet Eyler, Vanderbilt University, as well
     as one by Darcy Lear, University of Chicago.

The yearly subscription rate for Volume 20, which includes both the Fall and Spring issues (released respectively in November, 2013 and April, 2014), is $29.00. Shipping is included in the price except for Canada ($5) and International addresses ($20).

For more information, visit ginsberg.umich.edu/mjcsl/

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New Issue Published--Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement

[Announcement from ijcre listserv]

Readers:

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement has just published its latest issue at http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Margaret Malone Managing Editor, Gateways Margaret.Malone@uts.edu.au

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement Vol 6 (2013) Table of Contents

Research articles (Refereed)
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Levels and networks in community partnerships: A framework informed by our overseas partners (1–21)
              
Community-based research decision-making: Experiences and factors affecting participation (22–37)
              
Choice, power and perspective: The neglected question of who initiates engaged campus-community partnerships (38–56)
             
Building equitable community-academic research collaborations: Learning together through tensions and contradictions (57–76)
               
Every teacher is a language teacher: Preparing teacher candidates for English language learners through service-learning (77–92)
            
A robust University-NGO partnership: Analysing school efficiencies in Bolivia with community-based management techniques (93–112)
          
Community–University Partnerships: Using Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) (113–30)
       
Needs and readiness assessments: Tools for promoting community-university engagement with Aboriginal communities (131–49)
          
Practice-based articles (Non-refereed)
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Successes, challenges and lessons learned: Community-engaged research with South Carolina's Gullah population (150–69)
             
Community monitoring: A strategy to watch out for (170–77)
              
Knowledge Transfer in Asia
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A Hong Kong University first: Establishing service-learning as an academic credit-bearing subject (178–98)
           
All my friends are here: Four initial case studies on student design agencies (199–217)
         
In Light of Visual Arts –  A knowledge transfer partnership project as experiential learning (218–27)
               
Reviews
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Community-university research partnerships by P Hall and I MacPherson (eds) (228–30)
              
Higher education and civic engagement by L McIlrath, A Lyons & R Munck (231–32)
             
Transforming cities and minds through the scholarship of engagement by L Hoyt (233–35)
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Paul Ashton, Marilyn Krogh, Margaret Malone, Phil Nyden and Pauline O'Loughlin Editorial Committee Gateways