This article  illustrates how a university-community partnership incorporated creative, non-text based approached in to adult literacy work to contribute to the efforts of creating greater equality and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. The university-community partnership, known as the Literacy and Equality in Irish Society project (LEIS), was based on the fundamental belief that low levels of literacy amongst adults was one factor contributing to inequalities and violence in Irish society and therefore, literacy practice had to be re-contextualised within an equality and peace building agenda.

The Sir David Watson Awards recognises the combined efforts of community and university partners towards making a difference to the lives of people in their shared community. These awards have been created in memory of Professor Sir David Watson, honouring his leadership in encouraging community-university engagement.

We are pleased to announce the launch of our brand new PRIA International Academy (PIA) microsite. The microsite now provides useful and easily accessible information about PIA programs i.e. Courses, Knowledge for Change (K4C),  Internships and recent Collaborative Research which PIA has undertaken with various institutions involved with different aspects of sustainable development. It also highlights PIA’s role as the UNESCO Co-Chair along with University of Victoria, to develop global standards of curriculum and pedagogy for training next generation of researchers in Community Based Research (CBR).

Greetings from Martha Farrell Foundation! Our efforts towards prevention of sexual harassment in informal sector workplaces have been gathering momentum. Recently, on September 10, 2018, we successfully concluded our second in series of state level consultative workshops at India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi.