Category: In the News

“The UNESCO Chair invites comments and suggestions from all its partners, networks and colleagues on the draft piece for the 6th Big Tent Communique, before it gets its official shape in October’ 2015 in Catania, Italy. We encourage you all … Continue reading →

Joanna Ochocka, Budd Hall and Wafa Singh part of theOttawa launch of our new Strengthening Community University Partnerships: Global Perspectives book at the CUExpo 2015 conference in Ottawa on June 28th, 2015. Dr. Luc Mougeot of IDRC chaired the session … Continue reading →

19 May 2015 Dear Family, Friends and Colleagues We are deeply appreciative of and sincerely thankful to all for your warm, sensitive and caring messages and thoughts following the sudden and shocking death of our dear Martha on May 13, … Continue reading →

NEW DELHI: Rajesh Tandon bears the intrusion with a smile. He even allows photographs. “Martha would’ve wanted us to be normal. Let us be normal,” he stoically tells TOI at his Sarita Vihar residence. Tandon’s wife, Martha Farrell, one of … Continue reading →

With the most profound grief we share the tragic news that Dr. Martha Farrell, wife of Dr. Rajesh Tandon, and towering leader against discrimination and violence against women was killed in an armed attack while working in Kabul, Afghanistan providing … Continue reading →

The 12th PASCAL conference will be hosted by one of Italy’s leading institutions, the University of Catania in the beautiful island of Sicily. The theme of the conference concerns how cities and their regions are connected to their universities at … Continue reading →

Remembrances from Colleagues around the World “A powerful voice in the global community university engagement movement, Prof David Watson passed away on February 8, 2015. A renowned scholar, Prof Watson is best known for his leadership in founding the Community … Continue reading →

The Evaluation Study of Action Research, or ESAR, aims to investigate the validity of claims that action research projects produce intended outcomes and have a transformational impact. The ESAR is a collaborative project coordinated by Dr. Eileen Piggot-Irvine at Royal … Continue reading →

Dr Rajesh Tandon, President, PRIA & Co-chair, UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and Ms. Wafa Singh, Program Officer, PRIA pen down their thoughts on how the policy makers and the higher education in … Continue reading →

Prof. Budd Hall, Founder of the Office of Community Based Research (OCBR) at the University of Victoria, Canada, and Prof. Rajesh Tandon, President of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), India, started collaborating with GUNi in 2008, during … Continue reading →