Professor Katy Shaw, Director of the UKRI/AHRC Creative Communities programme and Professor of Writing and Publishing at Northumbria University, talks to NCIA's John Fell about a range of topics including:

• Creative Communities outputs, including their recently-launched podcast series on their Community Innovation Practitioners.
• Devolution as an opportunity to supercharge change and growth locally.
• Devolving R&D and innovation at a local level.
• How universities can help foster diversity in creative industries.
• The Case for Culture Report's recommendations, and the impact of Covid on the creative industries and geographic decentralisation.
• Using university cultural spaces as a gateway to engage with the public.
• And more!

Creative Communities homepage
Creative Communities Podcast
Creative Communities Policy Labs
The Case for Culture Report (2022)

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In the last of our special series of conversations between Prof John Goddard OBE and leading voices in the HE sector:

John talks to Sjoerd Louwaars, founder of Onbound, to get an international perspective on the civic university movement, including:

- How the UK can learn from Europe and vice versa.
- Universities as 'mulitiversities'
- Approaching institutional transformation as an urban area development
- Perspectives on leadership development in Higher Education from France
- Territorial development building bridges around missions in Spain
- Students as key players in the civic engagement agenda in The Netherlands
- The value of intermediate organisations for interdisciplinary education and research
- and more!

Introduction by NCIA's John Fell.

https://www.onbound.org
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en
https://plnt.nl/en
The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus alliance
The Una Europa European Alliance

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In the fifth of our series "in conversation with Prof John Goddard OBE", John talks to Dr Philippa Lloyd, Vice-Principal for Policy & Strategic Partnerships at Queen Mary University of London, about a range of topics including:

- Her experiences working in government roles and in the university sector.
- How universities interact with government departments.
- The relationships between Higher Education and Further Education, and implications for the skills agenda.
- The London City Institute of Technology and its formation.
- The civic role of universities in East London.
- The idea of a civic university manifesto, to help partners work together.
- Universities' accountability to their communities in a competitive environment.
- Priorites for the NCIA programme moving forward.
And more!

Introduction by NCIA Policy & Partnerships Manager John Fell.

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