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Author: m.calvert2

An excellent conference with links to many ideas, documents and people who are worth watching. From a curriculum, pedagogy and policy perspective, there is a lot of guidance out there: QAA have appointed a chair for their review body of the 2012 QAA Enterprise and Entrepreneurship guidance. There is likely […]

Takeaways from the IEEC Conference

September 13, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged conference / event / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

For many, crowdfunding is old hat. It’s been around for 20 years in its modern form although I’ve found examples from the 1850s and even a reference to the base of the Statue of Liberty being funded through crowdfunding. We already have some examples of crowdfunding at YSJ. The SU […]

Crowdfunding

February 15, 2017 in Social Innovation tagged crowdfunding / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

The final session of the day was given by Jerry Allen who is Deputy Director of Enterprise at Greenwich University. He addressed the subject of ‘the future of social enterprise in a post-Brexit world’. He began with an amusing anecdote of a twitter comment asking if anybody could explain what […]

EEUK Event at Greenwich (Part 3)

February 6, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged Events / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

There were so many good speakers at the day that it is worth summarising some more wise words from the workshop. One particularly fiery speaker was the CEO Partas which is a social enterprise in Dublin. He works in an area of high unemployment – up to 50% in places. […]

EEUK Event in Greenwich (Part 2)

February 3, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged Events / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

Another week, another conference or workshop. This time in Greenwich near the historic observatory at the i3Centre (Innovation, Imagination, Inspiration). Check it out at http://www.i3centre.com/ . They have, amongst other things, an Enterprise Challenge that is attracting hundreds of student applications and a well-developed incubator. Although Greenwich is steeped in […]

EEUK Event in Greenwich

January 31, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged Events / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

Social accounting and social auditing are now mainstream activities in the world of social enterprises and those organisations contributing to the social good. Essentially, York St John underwent the process only last May to achieve the Social Enterprise Gold Mark but we need to embed our own auditing systems in […]

Social Audit Network workshop Liverpool

January 23, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

It is five years since the contract with the University of Bahrain came to an end. PCAP programmes (which included HEA Fellowship recognition) had been successfully led by York St John University staff for about six years. The question is, did it make a difference? I had the good fortune […]

The Continuing Impact of PCAP in Bahrain

November 24, 2016 in HEA Fellowship (YSJ CPD Framework) tagged PCAP by m.calvert2