As part of my involvement in the Kettering Foundation and Talloires Networks international collaborative research partnership into studying Regional Perspectives on University Civic Engagement, I along with my community partner Nghomes (Margaret Layden) was invited to participate in the Network's International Leaders conference “Live Engagement, Transform Lives” held in South Africa in December 2014.

Public museums and art galleries have been in existence for centuries, and have become ubiquitous features of national landscapes worldwide. In the United Kingdom (UK) there are an estimated 2000 such institutions, and over 250 in the Canadian province of Ontario alone.

This is to let you know that Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (HSE) announces a call for the 5th LCSR International Workshop “Social and Cultural changes in cross-national perspective: Subjective Well-being, Trust, Social capital and Values” which will be held within the XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development of the National Research University Higher School of Economics on April 6 – April 10, 2015 in Moscow.

Congratulations are in order to the Talloires Network for the excellent coverage achieved by partnership collaboration and taking over the whole of the current (21 December 2014) number of University World News with its World Conference convened in South Africa – brilliant to win the whole Number on Engagement.

Please find featured below and attached the Summer 2014 newsletter of Ripples, the Australian Learning Communities Network: