The Civic University and the City
The Civic University and the City
Policy Scotland Public Lecture Series
Date: Monday 10 June 2019
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Professor John Goddard OBE
Website: policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/
A public lecture by Professor John Goddard OBE
- Emeritus Professor of Regional Development Studies
- Formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Newcastle
- Vice Chair of the Civic University Commission
The lecture will explore the challenge of building bridges between territorial development, higher education and research and innovation policy. It will draw on Professor Goddard’s publications on The University and the City (an outside-in perspective) and The Civic University: the Policy and Leadership Challenges (an inside-out perspective).
The discussion will be set in the context of the implications of the growing marketization of higher education and what this means for the role of universities as 'anchor institutions' in meeting the needs of 'left-behind places'.
It will conclude with a summary of the findings of the Civic University Commission and its proposals for Civic University Agreements between universities and their local partners now endorsed by the VCs of 52 UK universities, including Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian.
See the Civic Universities report (PDF)
Please reserve your place on BookItBee