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Community resilience, universities and engaged research for today’s world

Weaving Together the Strands of Engaged Research and Community Resilience Engaged research Community resilience Weaving the threads together Conclusion Engaged Research in Action: Informing Sexual and Domestic Violence Practice and Prevention Phoenix House Conclusion Engaging with the Past: Reflecting on Resilience from Community Oral History Projects Purpose of community oral history projects Trust and relationship building Negotiation of the story Conclusion Keeping Afloat after the Floods: Engaged Evaluation of a School-Based Arts Project to Promote Recovery Literature review Methods Results Using art to make meaning as an individual Making art in context of a school after a disaster Using art to make meaning as a school community Discussion Conclusion Making Space for Community Learning: Engaged Research with Teacher Aides in Disadvantaged Schools Background to the research project Schools as organised ‘communities’Schools as communal spaces in disadvantaged communities Engagement in professional learning communities Conclusion Trailblazing and Extending Emergency Service Education: A Journey of Engaged Research and Partnership Building The fire and emergency service landscape Going where none have gone before Looking back to see where we’ve been, looking forward to see where we’re going Conclusion Resilience of the Horticultural Community: Engaged Researchers Promoting Productivity and Profitability Economic capital: horticultural production in the Bundaberg region Environmental capital: blessings and curses Social capital: resilience in the horticultural production community Engaged research Conclusion

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Weaving Together the Strands of Engaged Research and Community Resilience
Wendy Madsen and Madonna Chesham Abstract: Over the past few years, an increasing awareness of our vulnerabilities related to a surge of natural disasters has resulted in increased political and research attention on resilience, both personal and community. Academics, as members of...
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Resilience of the Horticultural Community: Engaged Researchers Promoting Productivity and Profitability
Phil Brown and Talitha Best Abstract: Brown and Best analyse an agricultural research case study to highlight the interdependence of environmental, economic and social capitals and the roles each play in building sustainability and community resilience. Agricultural industries play...
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Making Space for Community Learning: Engaged Research with Teacher Aides in Disadvantaged Schools
Kerry Aprile and Helen Huntly Abstract: Community groups are connected to much larger social, cultural and organisational systems that shape members’ perceptions, identities, roles and capacity to adapt to change. This chapter examines the constraints that social and organisational...
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Universities Actively Engage in Entrepreneurship Education for Graduates
The twenty-first century graduate is in many respects an intrapreneur or entrepreneur. Routine work will be less and less his or her province. The graduate will have to be a problem solver under situations of uncertainty; playing the role of the troubleshooting Wolf, who steps into fix the awkward problem,...
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The University of Copenhagen's Research and Innovation Council
UCPH's Research and Innovation (R&I) Council is responsible for identifying and pursuing the university's strategic development within research, innovation, and business collaboration, and for prioritizing how the university shall publicize its activities externally [46]. The council works in accordance...
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Step 3: Assess Stakeholders’ Interests, Priorities, and Communications Needs, Through Mental Models Research
With a full expert characterization of the situation, both the technical and social aspects, we proceeded to Step 3 of the Process: conducting purposeful and empirical research with target stakeholders to identify their interests, priorities, and information needs. With this insight, the Team was able...
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Communities and Culture: Findings and Research Needs
The studies reviewed here suggest that some neighborhood characteristics related to disorganization and instability (heterogeneity, residential instability, family disruption, collective efficacy) are associated with both violent and nonviolent crime and the pattern is not consistent with the differential...
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Engaged research
Engaged research is not a well-defined term within the literature, with a range of research activities being passed as ‘engaged, from consultancies to equal partnerships, each with different levels of engagement, power differentials and philosophical bases (Nation, Bess, Voight, Perkins, & Juarez,...
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Community resilience
Like ‘engaged research, the term ‘community resilience’ is not readily defined within the literature. Indeed, there are multiple meanings because resilience has been used in different ways by different disciplines (Reid & Botterill, 2013). However, Brian Walker and David Salt (2012) and Fikret...
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Engaged Research in Action: Informing Sexual and Domestic Violence Practice and Prevention
Kathy Prentice and Tania Signal Abstract: The counselling staff at Phoenix House understand research to mean ‘finding out’ and therefore use research in their everyday practice. The work is guided by robust rationales and is based on using practice experiences to inform research,...
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