{"id":3378,"date":"2016-05-25T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2016-05-25T15:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T15:29:23","slug":"13th-pascal-international-conference-glasgow-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2016\/05\/25\/13th-pascal-international-conference-glasgow-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"13th PASCAL International Conference &#8211; Glasgow 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, while still doing my PhD, I attended my first international conference and this was on The role of HE in local and regional social and economic development. The conference took place in Brest, France from 29 &#8211; 31 October. \u00a0I seems to have been one of very few students to have attended the conference whose attendance was highly made up of local authorities, policy makers and high profile academics. Some of the\u00a0delegates\u00a0at the conference later contributed profoundly to the success of my PhD on <em><strong>Rethinking university community engagement,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>these included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acu.ac.uk\/news\/view?id=51\">Professor\u00a0Hudd Ball<\/a>, \u00a0a UNESCO Co-Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and <a href=\"http:\/\/pascalobservatory.org\/users\/hans-schuetze\">Professor Hans Schuetze<\/a>\u00a0of UBC. After close to four years of reaping the benefits of the 10th PASCAL Observatory International Conference, I can&#8217;t wait to attend the 13th conference as a staff and delegate from Bournemouth University.\u00a0In addition, I will be presenting a paper \u00a0titled: <a href=\"http:\/\/conference2016.pascalobservatory.org\/pascal-conference-2016\/submissions\/instrumentality-community-based-service-learning-instigating-loca\">The instrumentality of community-based service learning in instigating local transformations: An investigation into the role of community voices.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 13<sup>th<\/sup> PASCAL International Conference &#8211; <a title=\"Conference Schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/conference2016.pascalobservatory.org\/conference-2016\/schedule\">June 3rd to June 5th, 2016<\/a> in <a title=\"University of Glasgow School of Education\" href=\"http:\/\/conference2016.pascalobservatory.org\/conference-2016\/location\">Glasgow, Scotland<\/a> &#8211; will focus on future directions for Learning Cities at a time of considerable challenge and opportunity for cities, with significant development in the role and contribution of Learning Cities&#8230;\u00a0The Conference builds on PASCAL work on Learning Cities since 2010 through two programs: PASCAL International Exchanges (PIE,2010-2013) and PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN, 2014- ). Important themes emerging from this work have been given shape in the <a href=\"http:\/\/conference2016.pascalobservatory.org\/conference-2016\/strands\">themes of the conference<\/a>. More information about PASCAL Observatory and the forth coming conference can be accessed <a href=\"http:\/\/pascalobservatory.org\/pascalnow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to this year&#8217;s PASCAL International Conference with great\u00a0excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Marcellus Mbah<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, while still doing my PhD, I attended my first international conference and this was on The role of HE in local and regional social and economic development. The conference took place in Brest, France from 29 &#8211; 31 October. \u00a0I seems to have been one of very few students to have attended the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2016\/05\/25\/13th-pascal-international-conference-glasgow-2016\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about 13th PASCAL International Conference &#8211; Glasgow 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1273,"featured_media":2060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,225],"tags":[27,270,269],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-public-engagement","tag-conference","tag-learning-cities","tag-pascal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}