Table Of ContentCommunity Resilience, Universities and Engaged
Research for Today’s World
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Community Resilience,
Universities and
Engaged Research
for Today’s World
Edited by
Wendy Madsen
Central Queensland University, Australia
Lynette Costigan
Central Queensland University, Australia
and
Sarah McNicol
Central Queensland University, Australia
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Selection and editorial content © Wendy Madsen, Lynette Costigan and
Sarah McNicol 2015
Individual chapters © Contributors 2015
Foreword © Pierre Viljoen 2015
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Foreword viii
Pierre Viljoen
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Wendy Madsen
1 Weaving Together the Strands of Engaged
Research and Community Resilience 5
Wendy Madsen and Madonna Chesham
2 Engaged Research in Action: Informing
Sexual and Domestic Violence Practice and
Prevention 20
Kathy Prentice and Tania Signal
3 Engaging with the Past: Reflecting on
Resilience from Community Oral History
Projects 32
Wendy Madsen, Sarah McNicol and
Cathy O’Mullan
4 Keeping Afloat after the Floods: Engaged
Evaluation of a School-Based Arts Project
to Promote Recovery 44
Wendy Madsen, Madonna Chesham and
Shelley Pisani
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5 Making Space for Community Learning: Engaged
Research with Teacher Aides in Disadvantaged Schools 55
Kerry Aprile and Helen Huntly
6 Trailblazing and Extending Emergency Service
Education: A Journey of Engaged Research and
Partnership Building 67
Helen Keen-Dyer, Wendy Madsen and Andrew Short
7 Resilience of the Horticultural Community:
Engaged Researchers Promoting Productivity and
Profitability 77
Phil Brown and Talitha Best
References 87
Index 98
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List of Figures
1.1 Framework outlining how engaged research
can increase community resilience 8
3.1 The Love, Sweat & Rewarding Years book 35
3.2 Anyone Who Drinks the Dawson Water book 37
4.1 Part of the process of undertaking a digital
storytelling project 51
7.1 Farm gate value of horticultural production
in the Bundaberg region, 1980–2010 80
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Foreword
For countless centuries, universities throughout the world
have long held an obligation to the public good. In more
recent years, a growing focus on social innovation and
global inter-connectedness has placed increasing demands
on universities to be even more collaborative and respon-
sive to the needs of society. Through engagement and
knowledge exchange with the broader society, education
institutions and practitioners have a unique opportunity
to create mutually beneficial partnerships that support the
development of sustainable communities.
Engagement and its link to ‘knowledge exchange’
within the Australian context is an emerging field of study.
With awareness on the increase, however, universities
in Australia are beginning to take a collective view of
‘engagement’ as building collaborative relationships with all
communities that lead to productive partnerships which deliver
mutually beneficial outcomes. So too are they beginning
to acknowledge that engagement, collaboration and the
resultant partnerships that are critical to enabling knowl-
edge exchange more broadly, should form the centre of
their collective attention within the sector.
Through publications like this that showcase the unique
relationships and partnerships formed between universi-
ties and their communities and the outstanding results
being achieved through these partnerships, we are several
steps closer to recognising the real potential of university-
community engagement and its impact on the communi-
ties in which we live.
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Foreword ix
At its heart, true engagement is mutually beneficial for all involved,
reciprocal in nature, and designed to promote learning and the exchange
of knowledge in the search for collaborative approaches to the solution
of real-world problems and opportunities (Holland & Ramaley, 2008).
Congratulations to all the contributing authors. Through your efforts
you have enriched our understanding of this field and in doing so have
created a valuable resource for those who follow. To the readers, I hope
that this collection of case studies will enrich and enhance your under-
standing of the relevance and invaluable role of university-community
engagement within society, and inspire you to practice true engagement
in your future endeavours.
Pierre Viljoen
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Engagement,
Campuses & Mackay-Whitsunday Region),
CQUniversity
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