CO-LAB 4.0 Empowerment through Education
CO-LAB 4.0: Empowerment through Education
Date: Monday 2nd March, 11.30 – 3pm, Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre
The Collaboration and Communities Learning Circle of Warwick Institute of Engagement are putting together plans for the 4th edition of COLAB, an annual workshop that brings together Warwick staff and students and their key collaborators for a series of conversations about what collaboration can achieve and to enable networking and future collaborations to grow.
COLAB 4 focuses on the transformative role Warwick’s education can play when it works to empower people outside the organisation to change their communities and places for the better. It explores innovative ways in which Warwick’s staff (and students) collaborate with stakeholders outside the academy to exchange skills and knowledge.
The session will be of interest to staff, students and community organisations with an interest in collaborative forms of public engagement and knowledge exchange.
Schedule
| 11.00 am | Arrival, registration and welcome. |
| 11.20 am | Panel 1 - Practical Knowledge Exchange that Sticks |
| 12.10 pm | Panel 2 - Empowerment through Community Learning |
| 1.00 pm | Lunch, networking, further discussion and Short Interactive Session |
| 1.45 pm | Panel 3 - Learning by Serving, Serving by Learning, plus Q&A |
| 2.35 pm | Completion of Short Interactive Session Further opportunities for discussion and networking over refreshments |
| 3.00 pm | End |
Through this session we will highlight examples of teaching and knowledge exchange, and what those examples demonstrate about the ways Warwick can empower external people and organisations, and how those collaborations can (or could) create space for external knowledge and lived experience to shape teaching and learning at Warwick.
Practical Knowledge Exchange That Sticks
Panel
Andrew Todd (Chair)
Panellists:
Michaela Gummerum (Psychology) and Ramona McGarry (Coventry City Council's digital inclusion coordinator ) on their collaborative #CovConnects project.
Kate Owen (WMS) and Mohamad Alobeid (Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre) on their Health Champions project.
Panel focus: How Warwick and partners co-create lasting impact (digital inclusion, health literacy). How Warwick people partner with community organisations to build capability that persists after the university steps away.
Empowerment through Community Learning
Panel
Doreen Foster (Chair)
Panellists:
Kate Astbury (SMLC) and Jacque Roberts (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Second Generation) on their collaborative research project with the Vincentian community in Britain to engage with the history of the island of St. Vincent and the Vincentians that came to the UK.
Tamara Friedrich (WBS) and Jo Kerr, Chair of Tile Hill Community Partnership, discussing their roles in Community Learning Lab and the ways in which the University can empower local community leaders.
Tara Tighe and Lauren Milwain (Warwick Arts Centre) and Mary-Ann Galgey (Arts Lead and Teacher, Southfields Primary School) will discuss The Classroom of Creativity a programme that connects four Coventry primary schools in Hillfields, Foleshill, Willenhall and Canley to practicing regional artists and the creative programme at Warwick Arts Centre.
Panel focus: How does collaboration enable learning in the community. How does knowledge exchange take place in community settings and what is the role of Warwick staff and students in collaborative action for community empowerment.
Learning by Serving, Serving by Learning
Panel
Prof Will Curtis (Chair)
Panellists:
Tara Mulqueen (Law) and Alan Markey (Coventry Independent Advice Service) on the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Clinic they set up at Holbrooks Community Centre in Coventry. With the support of trained student volunteers, the clinic advises on aspects of the process of applying for PIP, challenging decisions and addressing gaps in local advice provision.
Jo Gaffney (Wellbeing) will be joined by Ella, a Year 11 student from a local secondary school, to reflect on Mental Health Champions, a project which empowers young people to take a lead in management of their mental wellbeing and that of their peers.
Charlie Byfield (SCAPVC/FTV student) and Simon McCarthy (CEO Coventry Irish Society) on the impact of Charlie's internship with the charity, funded by WIE.
Panel focus: How placements, internships, volunteering, and youth co-creation deliver tangible value to host organisations and real learning for Warwick students.
