CKI 10th Anniversary Lecture - Knowledge Democracy: What is it and Why is it important?
10 April 2013 - 10 April 2013 , 11.00
At Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway
Organised by Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI)
Delivered by Professor Budd Hall, Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education.
This lecture will discuss
future possibilities in the area of community-university engagement at
NUI Galway, exploring practices associated with community-based research
and the opportunities for the co-creation of knowledge between the
university and the wider community. Professor Hall will draw on his
pivotal work in Canada where he has been centrally involved in the
development of community-based research in higher education. It promises
to be a thought-provoking lecture that will provide inspirational ideas
for community-university collaborations in the area of community-based
research.
Professor Budd Hall is Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in
Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
and Professor of Community Development in the School of Public
Administration at the University of Victoria and Secretary of the Global
Alliance on Community-Engaged Research, Budd was the founding Director
of the University of Victoria Office of Community-based Research and
Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Studies. Former Dean of the Faculty of
Education at the University of Victoria, Budd Hall has served as the
Chair of the Adult Education Department at the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education or the University of Toronto from 1995-2001 and as
the Secretary-General of the International Council for Adult Education
from 1979-1991. Budd has worked in Nigeria, Tanzania, Venezuela, Brazil,
Chile, Germany, Thailand, Yemen, Uganda, England, and the United
States. He has done both theoretical and practical work for almost 40
years in various aspects of community-based adult education and learning
and participatory research. He has served as President, Chair or
Vice-President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult
Education, International Council for Adult Education, Canadian Network
for Democratic Learning, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the
Coady International Institute Advisory Board. He is a member of the
International Adult Education Hall of Fame and was selected for the 2005
Canadian Bureau of International Education Innovation in International
Education Award. He is the husband of Dr. Darlene Clover, father of Dana
and Shawn Hall, Grandfather of Quincy Pugh Hall and Ashton Edward Hall.
He is also a poet.