Conference Program

 

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Day 1: Monday, 23 Nov 2009
08:00 – 09:00 am Registration
09:00 – 10:00 am
  • Messages from Collaborators: GACER & UNESCO
  • Overview of Conference Program by Chan Lean Heng (Chair-Program Subcom, UCEC 2009)
10:00 – 10:40 am
  • Opening of the Conference
  • Welcome by Organising Chairperson, UCEC 2009
  • Speech by The Honourable Senator Dato’ Sri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, Minister of Women, Family and Community Development
10:40 – 10:50 am Official launching of coffee-table book “Journeying with Industry: 40 Years…An Unwavering Commitment”, by The Honourable Senator Dato’ Sri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, Minister of Women, Family and Community Development
 
10:50 – 11:30 am Keynote Address: “Higher Education Futures” by The Honourable Professor Tan Sri Dato’ Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Sains Malaysia


Chair: Rashidah Shuib, Professor & Director- KANITA, USM
11:30 – 11:45 am Tea Break
11:45 - 1:00 pm Plenary 1 : Community Engagement and Engaged Scholarship


Speaker 1: T.T. Yew, Managing Director, Motorola Technology, Malaysia “Community Engagement - Industry Perspective”


Speaker 2: Barbara Holland, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Engagement), University of Western Sydney, Australia,
“Universities in the 21st Century: The Role of Community Engagement”

 

Speaker 3: Rajesh Tandon, President, Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), India; Chairperson-GACER.
 “Democratisation of Knowledge: Challenges for Engaged Scholarship”


Chair: Rashidah Shuib, Professor & Director- KANITA, USM
1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 pm Parallel Session 1
  • University-Community Partnerships and Engaged Scholarship (Chair: Budd Hall)
  • Lessons in Community Engagement (Chair: Samina Choonara)
  • Service Learning through/in Community Engagement (Chair: Kausar S. Khan)
  • Environmental Concerns as a Vibrant Space for University-Community Engagement (Chair: Nobert Steinhaus )

 
3:30 - 4:00 pm Tea Break
4:00 - 6:00 pm Plenary 2 : Engaging Communities

 

Speaker 1: Tan Jo Hann, Executive Director KOMAS, President PERMAS Malaysia & Programme Director SEAPCP
 “Engaging Communities for Sustainability”

 

Speaker 2: Janet Pillai, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts, USM
“Initiating Change in Community Consciousness through Engaged Arts”

 

Speaker 3: Norbert Steinhaus, Coordinator & International Contact Point for Living Knowledge & Henk AJ Mulder, Chairperson, Dutch National Network
of Science Shops
“From Information to Participants: Science Shops as Mediators Between Science and Society”

Chair: Ismail Baba, Assoc.-Prof. & Dean- School of Social Sciences, USM
 
Day 2: Tuesday, 24 Nov 2009
09:00 - 10:30 am

 

 Parallel Session 2
  • Engaging Communities through Health Care (Chair : Josefa S. Francisco)
  • Universities’ Engagement via Capacity Building and Curricula Development (Chair: Marek Wosinski)
  • Engaged Research: Lessons from RPC-WEMC’s Participatory and Transformative Processes (Chair: Choo Lin Chew)
  • The Social Responsibility of Universities (Chair: Titiporn Siripant Puntasen)
10:30 - 11:00 am Tea Break
11:00 - 1:00 pm Plenary 3: The Engaged University in the 21st Century

 

Speaker 1: Shirley Walters, Director, Division for Lifelong Learning, University of Western Cape, South Africa
“The Bridge We Call Home: Community-University Engagement”

 

Speaker 2: Budd Hall, Director, Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria, Canada & Secretary-GACER
“Building the Foundations of a University Office of Community-Based Research: Challenges and Achievements at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada”

 

Speaker 3: Josefa S. Francisco, Chairperson, International Studies Department & Senior Program Officer for Gender, Development & Economic Globalization, Women and Gender Institute
“An Institutional Commitment to Educating Women in Service: The Case of Miriam College”

Chair: Wan Manan, Professor-School of Health Sciences, USM; Chair-Malaysian Academic Movement (MOVE)


 
1:00 – 2:00 pm  Lunch
 

 
2:00 – 3:30 pm Parallel Session 3

 

Experiences in Engaging with Schools (Chair: Janet Pillai)
Engaging Communities through Technology (Chair: Cecelia Ng)


Providing Social Services as Community Engagement (Chair: Elizabeth Cardosa)

 

Global Networking to Strengthen Local Action: the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (Chair: Rajesh Tandon)
 
3:30 – 4:00 pm Tea Break
4:30 – 6:30 pm Parallel Session 4 (Showcases – Case Studies in Community Engagement)
  • Cultural Mapping with Community
  • Creating Partnerships in Community Outreach Projects
  • Engaged Research for Socio-Economic Development of Community
  • Community Entrepreneurship – Towards Self-Reliance
  • Engaging Family, Community and Stakeholders in Health Management

 
8:00 – 10:00 pm Welcome Dinner
Day 3: Wednesday, 24 Nov 2009
09:00 – 10:30 am Parallel Session 5
  • Engaging Communities through Arts and Culture (Chair: Siti Hawa)
  • The Role of Research in University-Community Engagement (Chair: Shirley Walters)
  • Engagement, Empowerment and Agency: Lessons from RPC-WEMC’s Participatory and Transformative Processes (Chair: Sadia Ahmad)
10:30 – 11:00 am Tea Break
11:00 - 1:00 pm Closing Session
Panel: Ways Forward
K.O.Lim (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Division of Industry and
Community, USM, Malaysia)
Participants from UCEC 2009
Rajesh Tandon, (President-PRIA, India; Chairperson-GACER)

Closing Remarks
K.O. Lim (Organising Chairperson & Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Division of Industry and Community, USM, Malaysia)

Chair: Chan Lean Heng, Associate Prof-School of Social Sciences, USM; Exco-GACER
 
1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch
Day 4: Thursday, 26 Nov 2009
9:30am - 4:30pm

 

 Parallel Post-Conference Workshops
Workshop 1: "Building Effective Community-University Research Partnerships” (Rajesh Tandon, Budd Hall & Chan Lean Heng)

Workshop 2: "Using Theatre Arts as an Engagement Tool"
(Richard Barber)

Workshop 3: "Establishing Science Shops: Improving University-Community Engagement and Citizens Access to Scientific Information and Expertise” (Nobert Steinhaus & Henk AJ Mulder)