5 Mechanisms for Academic Engagement in Civic Priorities

Resourcing civic work within universities was identified as a major challenge across multiple partnerships through the NCIA action learning programme. We wanted to test a model to support early career academics build expertise and sustain involvement in civic work. Alongside our own experimentation, we wanted to learn from the wider civic, public and community engagement network within higher education; to find out how they support academics to engage with civic priorities and think about how we could evaluate the different models we were sharing.