Bronwyn Jane Adams Memorial Award
This award is offered in memory of Bronwyn Jane Adams, a former Professional staff member of the University of Melbourne. The objective of this award is to provide recognition and assistance to outstanding Professional staff to enable them to pursue a worthwhile activity in relation to their work.
2008 Award recipient explores innovative and best practices in University-community engagement
Janine Campbell is the Administrative Manager of the McCaughey Centre in the Melbourne School of Population Health, and is being supported through the Bronwyn Jane Adams Memorial Award to undertake a project that explores innovative and best practice in the area of University-Community engagement. Her particular focus is on identifying inventive ways in which professional staff can contribute to building and supporting community partnerships, and enhancing knowledge translation and exchange within their academic departments.
In the first stage of her project Janine will visit a number of universities in the United Kingdom in May 2009 to share learning from her own experience within the McCaughey Centre, and to find out more about the ways in which a range of institutions are partnering with their surrounding communities to inform their teaching, learning and research endeavors. The UK visits will encompass a number of leading individuals and groups within the field, including the Community University Partnership Programme (Brighton University), the Department of Lifelong Learning & Comparative Education and the School of Continuing Education (University of London), the Community Knowledge Initiative (National University of Ireland), The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (University of Bristol), Research Support Services at the University of Warwick, the Centre for Widening Participation Policy Studies (University of East London), and the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (Glasgow).
In addition to the UK visits, Janine's program of activity includes attendance at a local conference on University-Community Engagement, the development of a Knowledge Transfer resource guide for Professional staff, and the coordination and conduct of a university-wide seminar focusing on ‘New directions in knowledge transfer and university-community engagement: How administrative staff can support and advance KT in teaching, learning and research’.
Janine is most appreciative of the opportunity afforded by the Bronwyn Jane Adams Memorial Award to undertake this project.
Applications are now open for the 2009 Bronwyn Jane Adams Memorial Award
Two awards will be made in 2009 for:
- HEW 8 and above
- HEW 7 and below.
Download the application template, which includes further information about the application process (.doc, .pdf).
Successful applicants will be notified in June 2009.