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Public perceptions of Australian Universities - announcement from Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance

The following announcement has been made at the AUCEA website.

Universities Australia recently commissioned consultants to undertake a major study on the public perceptions of Australian Universities. In this request,  the consultants are seeking to ensure they have access to the most relevant literature to inform their work.  Please support this work in any way you are able, in particular by providing the Consultants as soon as possible with any relevant literature and/or studies you are aware of or think will assist their work.

 

The request

Big Tent II - Community-University Engagement in 2030: A Scenario

Here is a draft of Perspectives from the "Big Tent" global dialogue on Community-University Research and Engagement to be held on October 17, 2011. This is the second global statement by the "Big Tent" group of international community university research and engagement networks and will be finalised following discussions that will be chaired from the University of Glasgow by Dr Rajesh Tandon of PRIA and Professor Michael Osborne of PASCAL amongst the networks.

We welcome comments from our subscribers in advance of the dialogue and thereafter.

 

New Knowledge Exchange Call in UK

The next Knowledge Exchange of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK will open from the 1st September 2011 until the 27th October 2011. The ESRC will again be running two schemes, the Follow on Fund scheme and a Knowledge Exchange Opportunities scheme.

This call is aimed at social science researchers at all stages of their career and at organisations in the business, public and civil society sectors, with the intention of encouraging dialogue and collaboration between these groups. 

U-Multirank: Multi- dimensional Global ranking of Universities; a feasibility project.

This is a project funded by the European Commission led by a consortium headed by CHEPS in the Netherlands. It is concerned with field-based ranking of HEIs.

According to the project's website:

14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

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