URBAN will be hosting the Plenary on Wednesday, Oct 27th from 3:30 PM to 5:OO PM at the Resource Center for Non-Violence. URBAN will also be hosting the Networking Breakfast on Thursday, Oct 28th from 8:OO AM to 9:00 AM at the Stevenson Event Center Courtyard
London et al. “We are about life-changing research” in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement Ron Glass & Rebecca London W.T. Grant Foundation blog post
All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice ConferenceOctober 26-28, 2022 Santa Cruz, California Co-presented by the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz andUrban Research Based Action Network (URBAN) We are excited to announce that the All-In Conference will take place in Santa Cruz, California, on October 26-28, 2022. The conference brings together university Read more…
Edited by Dr. Steve McKey and Dr. Claudia Lopez the Special Issue “New Trends in Community-Engaged Research: Co-producing Knowledge for Justice” in the Social Sciences Journal is now out with many contributions from URBAN folks! All of the articles are open-access, check them out here
Wed., March 2, 16:30 GMT/11:30am ET. Free zoom registration here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8bwk6a. Panelists will be discussing the three NEW articles out today in the Forge: https://t.co/fKF4f0J2i2 Participatory Budgeting in Mexico Community Care is the Language of Peace in Kenya and the Philippines Young Women’s Peace Activism in Cameroon The panel is open to Read more…
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Cal Poly Pomona is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the 2016 Dale Prize. The Dale Prize pairs a scholar and a practitioner for dialogues on a focused planning topic, with a goal of linking theory and practice. Awardees participate Read more…
On Saturday, October 24 a collaborative comprised of Philadelphia parents, teachers, and researchers will host Convening on High Stakes Testing: Envisioning Alternatives & Planning Next Steps. The event will take place from 9:30am-4:00pm at Temple University in the Kiva Auditorium, Ritter Anex (1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue).
The event is designed to create partnerships in support of replacing high stakes testing with more meaningful forms of assessment and accountability. Collaborating organizations include URBAN, Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools, Caucus of Working Educators, Opt Out Philly, Teacher Action Group, Temple Teacher Network, United Opt Out, and University Community Collaborative . (more…)
Hope and Healing in Urban Education is the latest work by Shawn Ginwright, Associate Professor of Education in the Africana Studies Department and Senior Research Associate for the Cesar Chavez Institute for Public Policy at San Francisco State University. The book proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by Read more…
The URBAN scholar-activist network’s publications committee has drafted guidelines to aid editors and reviewers of sociological journals and conference papers in assessing community- based research submissions. The guidelines are also intended to support community-based researchers who are presenting studies for critical reviews. Please send your thoughts and questions to charlotte_ryan@uml.edu. Read more…
The School of Education of the University of California, Davis seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher. This opportunity is funded by the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation and focuses on the domain of public participation in scientific research (PPSR) as a tool to promote science learning, environmental stewardship, and civic engagement. This is Read more…