Tag: impact

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place public policy universities

The heart of impact

A year of war on the eastern borders of Europe. A cost of living crisis. Here in the UK, public services on their knees after a decade of dismantling. So why talk about universities, and the role they can play in their communities? The short answer is because they are there, and they last. They […]

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education public policy reflection

How can universities be civic-minded?

A host of universities now claim to be ‘civic’. But what does that really mean, and how can we tell?  Over the past year, I have been part of a team at Sheffield Hallam University working to answer these questions. We have been exploring the idea of a ‘civic index’, following on from the Civic University Commission’s […]