Category: In the News

The first International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals: Actors and Implementation, which was organized by the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi), took place from 18-19 September 2017 in Barcelona. Academics, researchers, policy-makers, managers, civil society organizations, governmental agencies and businesses convened … Continue reading →

Current global trends suggest a time of exciting possibility for scholars as critical, community-engaged, and participatory epistemologies come to the fore. In line with this school of though and through this book on ‘Dissident Knowledge’, Noam Chomsky, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, … Continue reading →

Prof Budd Hall, UNESCO Co-Chair will be speaking at a public forum at the University of Toronto on March 2, 2018 on ‘The Socially Responsive University: Knowledge Democracy and Community Engagement’. The topic of his address will be Beyond the … Continue reading →

On Monday the 29th of January at the University of Helsinki, Budd Hall presented the first Orlando Fals Borda Lifetime achievement award in community-based research to Dr. Marja-Liisa Swantz of Finland.  The award, created by the UNESCO Chair in CBR … Continue reading →

The University of Groningen will be organizing a 10 day summer school in Gulu, Uganda from July 20-30, 2018. The theme for the summer school is ‘Youth, Education and Work in (post-) conflict areas’. More details are as in the … Continue reading →

The Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the University of Victoria hosted the Canadian launch of the Chair’s forthcoming initiative, Knowledge for Change (K4C) at the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa on December 14, 2017. The discussions were focused on … Continue reading →

A project tailoring university research to the needs of a community is to be the first recipient of a new international award, hosted by the University of Brighton. The award, launched this year in memory of the University of Brighton’s … Continue reading →

“Our UNESCO Chair is pleased to announce that Dr. Crystal Tremblay, a long-time researcher and colleague with our team has been named Special Advisor on Community Engaged Scholarship to the Provost of the University of Victoria. In this new position, … Continue reading →

The newest edition of the new book titled, ‘Cooking with Action Research: Stories & Resources for Self & Community Transformation‘ compiles various articles that share experiences, resources and tools used in specific practices in different places. The book talks about the process of producing, … Continue reading →

A dialogue between UNESCO Co-Chairs, Dr Budd Hall & Dr Rajesh Tandon on ‘Participatory Research: Where have we been? Where are we going?’ has been published as an article by the journal ‘Research for All’ (Volume 1, Number 2, pp. … Continue reading →