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The NCACE Blog platform fosters a vibrant community of writers exploring collaborations between higher education and the arts, showcasing diverse stories, experiences, and reflections on cross-sector partnership.

The keyword is collaboration: dwelling among pathways through NCACE’s evidence garden

David Amigoni (Professor of Victorian Literature and Director, Institute for Social Inclusion, Keele University)

Keyword searches will help to unlock the NCACE collections for researchers and practitioners. I was pleased to be invited to reflect on what Evelyn Wilson described as an ‘evidence garden’ recording the complex pathways of knowledge exchange that characterise NCACE’s multi-sector-connecting mission at the March 2023 Evidence Cafe launch of the new NCACE Collection. The … Read more…

The Art of Engagement: creating foundations for an international learning community in social practice

Dr Loraine Leeson, Middlesex University

Social practice is a growing phenomenon amongst artists globally, who are increasingly drawing on their creativity to address urgent intersectional issues of social and environmental justice. There are nevertheless still relatively few opportunities to formally develop the knowledge and understanding needed for effective practice in this field. The nature of learning for engagement in the … Read more…

‘What do Universities actually do?’: Some thoughts on Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange and Creative Arts Collaborations.

Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg (The Open University, UK) and Graeme Surtees (The Stables, Milton Keynes)

‘What do Universities actually do?’ was the question our partner Graeme at The Stables, Milton Keynes had most wanted an answer to, before we began collaborating together. This was a very valid question and provided me with a focus for this blog. It’s a co-authored blog, since universities often try very hard to imagine ‘what … Read more…