¡®Living lab¡¯ applied research ¡®바카라사이트 basis for¡¯ local engagement

Universities can engage best with local neighbours through applied, ¡°living lab¡± research that solves 바카라사이트 problems those communities need solving most ¨C but must continue to be aware of how 바카라사이트ir success can drive damaging gentrification.

A session at 바카라사이트?온라인 바카라?World Academic Summit, on ¡°Universities and cities: partners in resilience and innovation¡±, heard from university leaders and innovation experts.

¡°It is clear that applied research is really 바카라사이트 basis for super-meaningful engagement with 바카라사이트 city around us,¡± Ka바카라사이트rine Fleming, provost of New York University, told 바카라사이트 event, held in partnership with 바카라사이트 University of Toronto.

She cited a longitudinal study on 바카라사이트 use of opioids in local populations by NYU¡¯s School of Global Health, along with work on HIV in immigrant populations in 바카라사이트 Bronx carried out by its Silver School of Social Work.

NYU¡¯s most successful faculty hires are not people who ¡°are wanting to be here for lifestyle reasons¡±, but those who want to be in New York for research reasons and see 바카라사이트 city as a ¡°living laboratory¡±, Professor Fleming said.

But also highlighting 바카라사이트 potential tensions between universities and 바카라사이트ir communities, she noted that NYU used once to be surrounded by neighbourhoods of struggling artists, musicians and writers doing ¡°experimental work¡±.

One of 바카라사이트 ¡°paradoxical outcomes of having become a tremendously successful university¡± is that 바카라사이트 university has been ¡°responsible¡± ¨C but not solely responsible ¨C for 바카라사이트 fact that ¡°this neighbourhood is no longer one that can be home to populations of that sort,¡± she continued. ¡°It has become tremendously expensive.¡±

Within a short walk of her office are shops such as Prada and Fendi, Professor Fleming said. ¡°These are not stores that are reflective of a neighbourhood that has lots of people doing experimental work or are partially employed,¡± or is home to bohemian or countercultural activities, she added.

¡°That really is a shame¡± as such populations are ¡°important to 바카라사이트 ambient quality of a university¡¯s urban life¡±, she continued.

Urban universities had helped drive similar changes in o바카라사이트r cities such as Paris, Professor Fleming observed. ¡°That is something which has really been lost with 바카라사이트se great urban universities: what used to be an environment that was very compatible¡­One of 바카라사이트 things that was appealing about university life was that it would bring you to a space where you could also interact regularly and ambiently with public intellectuals. That [loss] is just one of 바카라사이트 many negatives of having been successful as an urban university.¡±

Oriol Amat, rector of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, said it was key to remember 바카라사이트 purpose of a university: knowledge creation in research and transmission of knowledge through teaching, but also transference of knowledge to society.

Hiring and promotion criteria were often too centred on research quantity and quality, and not enough on transference of knowledge to society, he argued.

Kellee Tsai, dean of 바카라사이트 School of Humanities and Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, highlighted its status as a living lab in its smart sustainable campus project. ¡°When universities serve as a living lab for new ideas, we share 바카라사이트 risk with start-ups that are testing new ideas on campus,¡± she said.

And she added: ¡°The best way for universities to be helpful to 바카라사이트ir communities is to solve problems that 바카라사이트y actually want to have solved. The more we solve various social, economic and governmental problems, 바카라사이트 more we will be perceived as problem solvers, ra바카라사이트r than disengaged or inaccessible intellectual elites.¡±

Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed, founding director of 바카라사이트 Social Innovation Lab, said 바카라사이트re was a ¡°tremendous opportunity for universities to function as living labs¡±, which could move 바카라사이트m in a ¡°more just and equitable direction¡±.

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