Programme

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Thursday, 4th June
08:00	Registration Hogan Mezzanine II Foyer
09:00	Opening Ceremony Minister for State, Pat Carey Hogan Mezzanine II
09:15	KN1 Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy Hogan Mezzanine II
	Life President of Focus Ireland, Visionary and Social Innovator
	Education for Active Citizenship: Essential Learning » Stanislaus Kennedy
09:45	KN2 Professor Robert Bringle Hogan Mezzanine II
	Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies and Director of the Centre for Service and Learning at Indiana University-Purdue University, USA
	Civic Engagement: What, How, and Why? » Robert Bringle
10:30	Poster Session with Refreshments Hogan Mezzanine II Foyer
11:00	WS-1A Practice Room 681/682
11:00	OP-1C Partnership Room 685 Clodagh Harris
	Community Inclusive Practice Facilitation » Laura Regan Cultural Safety as a requirement for Co-creating Knowledge with Marginalized Social Work students » Eveline Milliken Embedding Community Education and Development Courses in the Community: The Learning Partnership of Waterford Women's Centre and Waterford Institute of Technology » Mary Fenton, Maeve O'Grady, Helen Basanth
11:00	OP-1D Philosopy Room 686 Brian O'Donnchadha
	Away with Words: A study in Reciprocal Learning and the Co-creation of Knowledge » Mary O'Malley-Madec, Claude Madec New Ecologies between Rural Life and Visual Culture in the West of Ireland: History, Context, Position, and Art Practice. » Deirdre O'Mahony
11:00	OP-1E Policy Room 687 Sean Costello
	Beginning to introduce Service-Learning at the University of Granada (Spain) » Jose L. Arco, Francisco D. Fernández, Patricia J. Morales, Michael M. Morris The Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme in Ireland » Maria Meehan For the Greater Good: Locating civic engagement within Service Learning and Social Marketing within Ireland » Christine Domegan, Lorraine McIlrath
11:00	OP-1F Practice Room 688 Brid Quinn
	Evaluation of a programme for gifted disadvantaged students attending after-school classes in university in Ireland » Eleanor Cooke Student City » Jan Frohburg Working with communities to achieve access to higher education: A new role for Occupational Therapy? » Patrick Hynes, Marie O'Keeffe, Maria Larkin, Niamh Finnerty, Roisin Neville, Mary Geraghty, Marybeth Gallagher
11:00	OP-1G Practice Room 689 Margaret McGrath
	Self-advocacy: A programme facilitated by students from the Discipline of Occupational Therapy, Trinity College Dublin with women in prison » Katie Cremin, Sarah Quinn The Use of Special Study Modules as a Learning Tool for Increasing Community and Civic Engagement in an Irish Undergraduate Medical Curriculum » Gerard Flaherty, Rosemary Geoghegan, Lorraine McIlrath Toward an Holistic Approach for Teaching and Learning: Learning Inside and Outside the Academy » Timothy Murphy
11:00	RT-1H Practice Room 679/680 Josephine Boland
	Education for Change: Students in Higher Education as Agents for Community Development » Makume Tlaleane Oops! It's OUTSIDE the Box: Perspectives on The WIT Buddy Programme 2000-2009 » Nuala Lennon GIVE (Guided Initiative in Voluntary Engagement) - Achievement Through Collaboration » Anna Murphy, Edward O'Shaughnessy StudentAID Chernobyl: Irish student engagement in post Chernobyl Belarus » Joseph McGrath A case study of partnership between third level institutions and National Award Authorities. » Aidan Healy
12:30	KN3 Professor Brenda Gourley Hogan Mezzanine II
	Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, UK
	Higher Education as a Force for Societal Change in the 21st Century » Brenda Gourley
13:00	LUNCH
14:00	KN4 Professor Pat Dolan Hogan Mezzanine II
	UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement, NUI Galway, Ireland
	Civic Engagement as a Source of Resilience, Social Support and Coping in Higher Education in Ireland » Patrick Dolan
14:30	KN5 Professor Alan Smith Hogan Mezzanine II
	UNESCO Chair in Education for Pluralism, Human Rights and Democracy, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
	Three arguments for a commitment to civic engagement by higher education in Northern Ireland » Alan Smith
15:00	Poster Session with Refreshments Hogan Mezzanine II Foyer
15:30	WS-2A Practice Room 681/682
	Changing the World or Providing Free Workforce? Creating True Partnership for Social Change » Michal Schuster, Tamar Berenblum
15:30	WS-2B Practice Room 683/684
	Common Learning Goals for Curricular and Co-Curricular Community Service » Robert Bringle, Lorrie Brown
15:30	OP-2C Partnership Room 685 Mary O'Malley-Madec
	DCU in the Community Shangan Road Centre, Ballymun - Model of transformational education for civic engagement and community development » Jean Berry The Digital Hedge School Project: Challenges and Opportunities within a Multi-Generational Partnership » Sarah Knight, Jenny Beale, Tony Hall, Veronica McCauley Community Based Learning: Hedge Schools for the 21st Century » Sean Costello, Caroline Clarke
15:30	OP-2D Philosophy Room 686 Iain MacLaren
	Civic engagement through an activity theory lens: the case of service learning as 'boundary work' in higher education » Janice McMillan engagEnable: Connecting universities and communities » Jan Strom The Civic Role of Universities » Rhonda Wynne
15:30	OP-2E Practice Room 687 John Heneghan
	Does doing good lead to feeling good? Reflections and insight on service learning: The students' perspective » Hannah Barton Volunteering and learning: Irish student teachers on placement in Africa » Anne Ryan, Eamonn McCauley Service Learning in Zambia: "A life enhancing experience, that was definitely worth it ..." » Paul Butler, Dympna Casey
15:30	OP-2F Partnership Room 688 Ruth McMenamin
	Community-University Partnerships - Reflections on Collaboration between Galway Simon Community and the Department of Occupational Therapy, National University of Ireland, Galway » Linda Connell, Neifinn Ni Dhufai Boltuin, Ashleigh Waldron, Margaret McGrath Creative engagements with archaeology: Children's perspectives of the past » Thomas Kador, Jane Ruffino Promoting health through education - Evaluation and reflections on a pilot initiative between Cairde and Dublin City University » Anne Matthews, Sarah Duku, Cherif Labreche
15:30	OP-2G Policy Room 689 Kelly Coate
	Mainstreaming Civic Engagement Activities in HE: How an understanding of policy work can moderate the challenge of policy change. » Conor Galvin The evolution and revolution in UKM's social responsibility policy, organization and arrangements towards encouraging sustainable university community engagement programs » Ismail Bahari Is a survey of Community Leaders a good idea? Measuring Community Engagement » Andy Nicolaides
15:30	RT-2H Partnership Room 679/680 Alison Farrell
	A university helpdesk in action: Improving community and cross-faculty collaboration » Angie Hart, Ceri Davies Community Engagement: A partnership approach in Co Offaly » Catherine Corcoran The Talloires Network: Building a Global Movement of Engaged Universities » Susan Stroud Role of Universities in Designing Inclusive Policy for Socially Excluded Communities in the State of Maharashtra, India » Chandrakant Puri ExtensiÃ³n CrÃtica: The radical engagement agenda of Latin American universities » Paul Younger, Humberto Tommasino Women Legal Leaders & The Legal Feminism Clinic » Dana Myrtenbaum Strengthening Community Engagement in a Research University in Malaysia: Tensions, Dynamics and Challenges » Saran Kaur Gill Linking Communities of Learning and Learning Communities » Brid Quinn
17:00	D.I.S.C / Ballymun Music Programme Hogan Mezzanine II
20:00	Conference Dinner at Dublin Castle St. Patrick's Hall
	Welcome by Martin Manseragh, Minister of State at the Departments of Finance, including special responsibility for the Office of Public Works, and Arts, Sport and Tourism, with special responsibility for the Arts.
Friday, 5th June
09:00	KN6 Professor Maria Nieves Tapia Hogan Mezzanine II
	Programma National Educación Solidaria Ministerio de Educación, Argentina and Founder and Academic Director of Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario (CLAYSS), the Latin American Center for Service-learning, South America
	Academic excellence and community engagement: reflections on the Latin American experience » Nieves Tapia
09:30	KN7 Professor Michael Cuthill Hogan Mezzanine II
	Director of the University of Queensland Boilerhouse for Community Engagement Centre, Australia
	A role for the university in working collaboratively for the common good: Engaged scholarship and community-based participatory research » Michael Cuthill
10:30	Poster Session with Refreshments Hogan Mezzanine II Foyer
11:00	WS-3A Partnership Room 681/682
	The Role of Partnership in Civic Engagement » Ceri Davies
11:00	WS-3B Practice Room 683/684
	The Use of Study Circles as a Teaching Tool to Enhance Service Learning, Students' Civic Engagement, and Community Partnerships: A Collaborative Approach » Rhoda Frumkin, Katia Gonzalez-Acquaro, Susan Rosenberg
11:00	OP-3C Practice Room 685 Ellen Fowler
	Collaborating Across Communities and Continents: Community Engagement in Rural Ireland » Diane Doberneck Social Farming in Ireland-policy networks as a tool for multi-disciplinary collaboration » Aideen McGloin, Deirdre O'Connor, Jim Kinsella, Stephen Hynes Universities and Community Engagement: Capacity-building and empowerment of excluded communities » Lynne Humphrey
11:00	OP-3D Partnership Room 686 Christine Domegan
	Practice into Theory: Learning from an act of civic engagement » Yvonne McKenna The South East Coastal Communities Programme (SECC): Improving health and wellbeing through partnership working between universities and communities » Angie Hart, Elizabeth Hoult
11:00	OP-3E Philosophy Room 687 Jennifer Buckley
	For Public Scholarship? Rethinking higher education from the new governmentality to human rights » Su Ming Khoo Higher education and social engagement: An open glocal multiversity » Valtencir Maldonado Mendes, Josep Lobera The Roles of Academia in Regional Sustainability Initiatives » Gyula Zilahy, Donald Huisingh
11:00	OP-3F Policy Room 688 Maria Meehan
	A Civic Engagement Model for Business Disciplines » Janice Buddensick, Mary Lo Re The challenge of embedding a civic engagement dimension into undergraduate healthcare education: Reflections from the Department of Occupational Therapy, National University of Ireland, Galway » Margaret McGrath, Deborah Hoban
11:00	OP-3G Policy Room 689 Mary O'Riordan
	Civic Engagement and Curriculum Change at a South African Research University » Gerda Bender Developing an institutional engagement strategy for a research-intensive civic university in the UK » Paul Younger Teaching and learning for civic engagement: Sustainability through alignment » Josephine Boland
11:00	RT-3H Practice Room 679/680 Marilla Keating
	Give us the Tools and We'll Finish the Job » Michael Kenny, Aine Kenny Now for the Science Bit - Implementing Pilot Community-Based Learning Projects with DIT Chemistry Students » Claire McDonnell Service learning a tool for promoting cultural sensitivity and civic engagement » Dympna Casey, Kathy Murphy, Deirdre Van Der Putten Students Learning With Communities - Learning from community-based learning at DIT » Catherine Bates, Elena Gamble Non-formal Learning Spaces: The UL Farmers Market and a Business Communications Class » Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin, Colin Fitzpatrick Supporting Campus Civic Engagement Around Wisdom and Older People » Ricca Edmondson The community as a learning environment: Engaging with people with communication disability through a pilot interdisciplinary service learning experience » Rena Lyons, Ruth McMenamin, Sean Dinneen, Yvonne Finn
12:30	KN8 Mary O'Malley Hogan Mezzanine II
	Poet, Member of Aosdána, Ireland
	The Walls » Mary O'Malley
13:00	LUNCH
14:00	WS-4A Practice Room 681/682
	Engaged Scholarship: Samoan Learning Circle » Michael Cuthill, Lorraine McIlrath
14:00	WS-4B Partnership Room 683/684
	Reciprocal academic-community partnerships: Stories from Occidental College in Los Angeles and Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts » Maria Avila, Alan Knoerr, Nicolas Orlando, Mary Carlton, Lauren Watanabe, Mary Bombardier, Kiara Nagel
14:00	OP-4C Partnership Room 685 Catherine Bates
	Collaborations as a resource: Doing what we can with what we have » Sarah Clancy Community interpreting - A service-learning setting for bilingual students » Miriam Shlesinger
14:00	OP-4D Philosophy Room 686 Lorraine Tansey
	Bridging the Research-Policy Divide Through Participatory Practice: The Role of Civic Engagement in the Knowledge Society » Alice Feldman Education for Active or Political Citizenship? Critical Reflective Learning in Context » Michael Murray
14:00	OP-4E Practice Room 687 Thomas Kador
	An investigation of the impact of Service Learning on Students, Community Partners and Academic Staff in Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy at NUI Galway » Margaret McGrath, Ruth McMenamin Exploring dynamic processes of collaborative group learning in a blended Community Based (Service) Learning module for 3rd year Fine Art students » John McGarrigle Service Learning and academic credit - matters arising! » Ann Bourke, Mary Finlay, Clare Fay
14:00	OP-4F Practice Room 688 Timothy Murphy
	Evaluation of a College Service Learning Initiative » Edel Randles, Laura Commane Occupational Therapy Students working in collaboration with RehabCare's Asperger's Residential Services. » Deirdre Fitzgerald, Aine Gallagher, Elaine Scally, Margaret McGrath, Agnes Shiel Teaching and learning active citizenship - Student, faculty and community experiences of service learning in the postgraduate classroom » Clodagh Harris
14:00	OP-4G Policy Room 689 Mary Murphy
	Civic Engagement in Practice: An action research collaboration in the development of a social enterprise » Michele O'Sullivan, Eleanor Fitzgerald Institutional Approaches to Supporting Faculty for Civic Engagement: South Africa and America » Robert Bringle, Gerda Bender Media Literacy: Can the audience set the media agenda? » Mimi Doran
14:00	RT-4H Practice Room 679/680 Josephine Finn
	Framing "Second-Chance" Learning within the Traveller Community: University of Limerick's Traveller Access Initiative » John Heneghan, Micheal Ohaodha, Annette Fleming, David Odonnell The Framework for Traveller Education at the University of Limerick » John Heneghan, Patrick Hoey, Olive O'Reilly, Micheal Ohaodha Adult Learners Are Engaged » Michael Kenny Enhancing educational support through student volunteering: A case study of two UCD New ERA projects delivered in partnership with UCD student volunteers. » Jennifer Murphy, Fiona Sweeney Engaging the Civic community with hard to reach groups » Margaret Alipoor, Nadira Mirza
15:30	Poster Session with Refreshments Hogan Mezzanine II Foyer
15:45	Reflections from Professor Elizabeth Hollander Hogan Mezzanine II
	Senior Fellow, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service Tufts University, USA
16:20	KN9 Fergus Finlay Hogan Mezzanine II
	Chief Executive of Barnardos

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