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The 2009 conference is hosted by The Science Shop, Queen's University Belfast
Maximizing Community Outcomes: Bringing Community Development Practice into Higher Education Community Engagement
Does university engagement with communities benefit those communities as much as it could? Recent research says no. This workshop will focus on one of the possible missing pieces. Most higher education community engagement is conducted without knowledge of community development theory and practice. This workshop will review community development principles and practices, and then will engage participants in designing models for integrating those principles and practices into higher education community engagement.
Theme: Knowledge exchange, transfer or exploitation?
Presenters Name: Randy Stoecker
Presenters Institution: University of Wisconsin
Presenters Biography:
Randy Stoecker is a Professor in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment in the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. in Counselling from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He moderates/edits COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development (http://comm-org.wisc.edu), and conducts trainings and speaks frequently on community organizing and development, community-based participatory research/evaluation, and community information technology.
He has led numerous participatory action research projects, community technology projects, and empowerment evaluation processes with community development corporations, community organizing groups, community information technology programs, and other non-profits in North America and Australia.
Randy has written extensively on community organizing and development and community-based research, including the books Defending Community (Temple University Press, 1994), Research Methods for Community Change (Sage Publications, 2005) the co-authored books Community-Based Research in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning (Temple University Press, forthcoming). You can find his complete vita at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/stoeckerfolio/stoeckvita.htm.