CEL for Community Partners

Guidance for our community partners who want to work with students to address real-world challenges and opportunities through 乱伦秀鈥檚 teaching.

CEL for Partners

Community Engaged Learning is a teaching method that combines academic coursework with the application of institutional resources to address community challenges and opportunities with mutual benefit.

The Community Engaged Learning Service (CELS) enables partnerships between 乱伦秀 academics/students and external partners by creating connections and building capacity.听

These partners can be based in London and anywhere else in the world. We particularly encourage partners from underrepresented backgrounds to work with us.听Besides CELS, 乱伦秀 also offers an ecosystem of services for our external partners.听You can pick as many of the services you like depending on your needs and interests.听

External partners can be:

Voluntary and community organisations
public bodies
business

See how you can get involved:听

Voluntary and community sector听

Service	Community Engaged Learning Service	乱伦秀 Volunteering Service	Evaluation Exchange	Co-Production Collective
What is this service?	The Community Engaged Learning Service exists to enable collaborations between 乱伦秀 academics, students and communities in London and the wider world. Students work with communities to address a community challenge or opportunity through research and/or any other project as part of students鈥� assignment. For example, students and partners can work together to develop neighbourhood plans and social prescribing projects, monitor the air pollution in the community, develop exhibitions and collaborate on anything else the community might need that can be linked back to student learning. 听 For more information: 听 Community Engaged Learning Service. 听听	The Volunteering Service exists to connect 乱伦秀 with other communities across London, primarily听 by engaging students in enriching volunteering opportunities. 听听 We have three main services:听 Community Partners 鈥� we place 乱伦秀 students with volunteering opportunities at our听network of around 400 community organisations. Increasing and Evaluating Student Impact in Knowledge and Learning Exchange - for more information, please visit their pages here. 乱伦秀 Public Engagement -听individual researchers may reach out seeking patient or public engagement input to their research 鈥� this is primarily done on a case by case basis, driven by individuals and their connections.听 Student-Led Volunteering Programme 鈥� we support students to set up and run their own听community projects.听 Community Research Initiative for Students 鈥� we help create research collaborations听between Postgraduate Taught students and community organisations.听听 In addition we provide advice and support to 乱伦秀 colleagues on issues relating to volunteering,听 and help them build links with London鈥檚 voluntary and community sector.听听	We are a partnership between 乱伦秀 and voluntary and community sector organisations in Camden and east London that aims to improve evaluation practice.听听 Postgraduate students and researchers work collaboratively with organisations based in or working with communities in Newham and Camden.听听 Find out more here on our webpage. 听听	Co-Production Collective is a co-production community where everyone is welcome.听听 Together we learn, connect, and champion co-production for lasting change.听听 We support co-production projects and enable others to co-produce, bring people together to share learning and ideas, and build evidence and influence to make the case for co-production.听听 Anyone is welcome to participate in our co-creation opportunities!听听 Find out more on our 听听听
Examples	听听		Find out more about the experiences of students and what they did in the pilot Evaluation Exchange and about the long-lasting impact it had for the students鈥� involved, here.	听听听
Who benefits from this service?	Partners who want to invest in a long-term partnership with 乱伦秀 and further their mission through student and academic input. Partners who also want to be co-educators with 乱伦秀 academics and take an active role in student learning.听	Voluntary & Community Sector organisations by being able to recruit more volunteers, and thereby being able to increase their impact upon their beneficiaries.听听 Students benefit from being able to volunteer 鈥� we know they develop new skills, get insights into their academic work, and improve their wellbeing.听	Postgraduate researchers benefit from making connections, developing skills, and understanding a different sector. 听听 Voluntary and community sector organisations benefit from building confidence and capacities in evaluation practice.听	Anyone! Whether you鈥檙e an individual or part of an organisation, you can come along to any of our sessions to help co-produce Co-Production Collective, meet others who are interested in co-production, and develop your own practice. 听听 We work with grassroots and voluntary sector groups and organisations, as well as researchers, local authorities and other public sector partners. 听听
What role can the partners play?	The partners can offer students data, resources, come up with a community asset or challenge and ask for student support, offer their time and advice to students on-site or in the classroom depending on the project. 听听	Partners can use our service to recruit 乱伦秀 student volunteers for ongoing roles and one-off events. You can do this though our online directory, by attending our volunteering fairs and events, and through our newsletter and social media. If your opportunities are relevant to an academic department, we can help promote your roles to those students too.听听 Partners also collaborate with our student-led volunteering groups, for example by inviting one of the groups to work with your beneficiaries.听	We are a partnership, so partner organisations play a key role.听	Organisations are welcome to join our community and co-produce with us. 听听 You can share your learning, 听expertise, and opportunities at our sessions or by writing for our blog. 听听 You can commission us to deliver training, 听partner with us on specific projects, or explore other ways in which we could work together. 听听
Who isn't this service for?	For partners who want a one-off activity with 乱伦秀 students, i.e. gardening day or organising an event (see volunteering).听	We only work with not-for-profit charitable organisations and volunteering projects run by statutory organisations like the NHS.听	Our programme is currently focused on partnering with organisations in Camden and east London.听	Co-Production Collective genuinely is for everyone, whether you鈥檙e brand new to co-production or experienced in working in this way. 听
What should a partner be aware of?	Community Engaged Learning projects take time to establish. Plan between 3-6 months in advance to establish a CEL project. 听 Thinking what is best for the community organisation, but also for the students is key for a mutually beneficial partnership.听听	Partners need to have well-run volunteering programmes and sign up to a code of standards 鈥� see 听	This year, 12 voluntary or community sector organisations will be matched with small teams of postgraduate students and researchers. They will work together for 6 months, from September/October 2021 鈥� April 2022. During this time teams will have contact at least once a month and will work on a specific evaluation challenge that will be agreed at the start of the project.听	Our everything we do, including how we work with others. 听听听
Contact	Community Engaged Learning Service	Partnerships Manager, or听	Evaluation Exchange Project Manager听听听

Other 乱伦秀听projects and services:听

- visit their website for more information.听听
乱伦秀 Public Engagement -听Individual researchers may reach out seeking patient or public engagement input to their research 鈥� this is primarily done on a case by case basis, driven by individuals and their connections.听
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Public sector听

Service	Community Engaged Learning Service	Co-Production Collective	乱伦秀 East
What is this service about?	The Community Engaged Learning Service exists to enable collaborations between 乱伦秀 academics, students and communities in London and the wider world. Students work with communities to address a community challenge or opportunity through research and/or any other project as part of students鈥� assignment. For example, students and partners can work together to develop neighbourhood plans and social prescribing projects, monitor the air pollution in the community, develop exhibitions and collaborate on anything else the community might need that can be linked back to student learning.	Co-Production Collective is a co-production community where everyone is welcome.听听 Together we learn, connect, and champion co-production for lasting change.听听 We support co-production projects and enable others to co-produce, bring people together to share learning and ideas, and build evidence and influence to make the case for co-production.听听 Anyone is welcome to participate in our co-creation opportunities!听听 Find out more on our 听听听	Schools Engagement connects target schools with 乱伦秀 to give young people greater opportunities to learn and progress. Programmes include hands-on workshops in schools with 乱伦秀 students / staff, Saturday clubs, individual tutoring and mentoring. 听听
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Who benefits from this service?	Partners who want to invest in a long-term partnership with 乱伦秀 and further their mission through student and academic input. Partners who also want to be co-educators with 乱伦秀 academics and take an active role in student learning.	Anyone! Whether you鈥檙e an individual or part of an organisation, you can come along to any of our sessions to help co-produce Co-Production Collective, meet others who are interested in co-production, and develop your own practice. 听听 We work with grassroots and voluntary sector groups and organisations, as well as researchers, local authorities and other public sector partners. 听	School communities 鈥� students and staff. 乱伦秀 students and staff also benefit, gaining life skills, and knowledge of what east London education communities need.听听
What role can partners play?	The partners can offer students data, resources, come up with a community asset or challenge and ask for student support, offer their time and advice to students on-site or in the classroom depending on the project.听	Organisations are welcome to join our community and听co-produce with us.听听 You can share your learning,听听expertise,听and opportunities at our sessions听or听by writing for our blog.听听 You can听commission us to deliver training,听听partner with us on specific projects, or explore other ways in which we could work together.听听	Partners would be schools who want to commit to sustained engagement with 乱伦秀. Partners using this service would share feedback and data on participation and participants, which we need for monitoring and evaluation.听
Who isn't this service for?听	For partners who want a one-off activity with 乱伦秀 students, i.e. gardening day or organising an event (see volunteering).听	Co-Production Collective genuinely is for everyone, whether you鈥檙e brand new to co-production or experienced in working in this way. 听	Schools outside Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Hackney or Barking & Dagenham, and independent schools anywhere. Schools wanting one-off /ad hoc workshops/visits.听
What should a partner be aware of?	Community Engaged Learning projects take time to establish. Plan between 3-6 months in advance to establish a CEL project. 听 Thinking what is best for the community organisation, but also for the students is key for a mutually beneficial partnership. 听	Our everything we do, including how we work with others. 听	乱伦秀鈥檚 Access & Widening Participation unit has a programme of activities that schools could take part in if not eligible for 乱伦秀 East Schools Engagement 听 Other have similar offers 听听乱伦秀 East schools engagement is working with schools already and taking a targeted approach to schools we haven鈥檛 worked with, based on widening participation data around e.g. MID.听听
Contact	Community Engaged Learning Service		, 乱伦秀 East Schools Engagement lead

Other 乱伦秀 projects and services for public sector organisations:听

Rapid Evaluation Advice and Learning Service (REAL) -听pilot project has emerged as part of the Listen and Respond activity听and is exploring how the skills and expertise of 乱伦秀 staff and students can be utilised to support Camden Council to reflect on and evaluate their service delivery during the Covid-19 outbreak, and to use this learning to inform future service delivery to local people.听

Businesses

Whether you鈥檙e a global company, SME, third sector organisation or local authority, we have the people and processes that can get you connected to world-changing ideas and innovations.听
You can choose the Community Engaged Learning Service to address community challenges and opportunities and promote your mission.听
For more information about the services provided to businesses at 乱伦秀, please visit 乱伦秀 Enterprise.

Benefits of introducing CEL

Access to resources through connection to the university

Universities often have resources that are not available to community organizations. These include specialized knowledge, trained researchers and funding opportunities (Kellog, 2002).鈥�

鈥婩urther community partners鈥� missions and goals

When students are engaged with a group or organization in communities they become knowledgeable about the mandate, mission and services of that group or organization. The partner can benefit from student volunteering and overall from what the partnership can bring (Jones & Hill, 2001).鈥�

鈥婸otential pool of job applicants

Students who become engaged with an organization and spend time there can become potential employees for an organization and can be vetted through the partnership opportunity.鈥�

Here you can find examples of collaborating with students on teaching projects

Services available to you

Training and mentoring

CELS Community Partner Training听

If you are a community partner and want to collaborate with students on teaching projects, we offer a training and听mentoring session to enable you to understand how best to collaborate with 乱伦秀 students and staff and turn your听idea into a teaching project.听

Attending this session will help you to:鈥�

understand what are the opportunities for collaboration with 乱伦秀 students and staff in teaching鈥�
understand what are the limitations for collaboration with 乱伦秀 students and staff in teaching听鈥�
understand how you can work with 乱伦秀 students and staff in a digital learning environment鈥�
Understand how you can turn your idea into a teaching project

To request training for you or your team, email: communityengagedlearning@ucl.ac.uk.

We will try to match community projects with 乱伦秀 courses and students. CELS cannot听guarantee the partnership.听

Funding

Community co-educators projects

This project is for partners who want to become educators for 乱伦秀 students. These partners will receive听training, support and up to 拢600 of funding (Higher Education Innovation Fund).听

鈥婽hese partners can:听鈥�

Develop a case study for 乱伦秀 students that can be used in the classroom听鈥�
Develop a university-community project based on the needs of their organisation or of the communities听they represent with the support of the CELS team鈥�. For example, see Live Projects.听
Co-deliver teaching (if appropriate)听鈥�
Offer feedback on student assignments (if appropriate)鈥�
Support 乱伦秀 students as co-decided鈥嬧€�

Email听communityengagedlearning@ucl.ac.uk听to听express your interest and find out whether there is听funding available.听

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