Blogs

Read Their Stories

At Public Scholarship and Engagement, we value sharing the authentic voices of those engaged in public scholarship.

This is why we work hard to publish and promote first-person blogs written by UC Davis-affiliated public scholars. These blogs, however, are the personal accounts and opinions of the individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Public Scholarship and Engagement or UC Davis. We feel it is important that these scholars can share their genuine experiences about public scholarship.

 

Three individual stand next to one another smiling for a photo. All three individuals are wearing a jacket.

Humanizing Displacement During a Pandemic

  • by Robert McKee Irwin
After a year-and-a-half of restrictions, Professor Robert Irwin and his team traveled to Tijuana to conduct their PIRI funded, community-engaged scholarship. The trip was invaluable and reaffirmed just how much this type of work is needed as this pandemic pervades.
Campus photos with a solar flare on September 25, 2018. Student Community Center.

Bringing a Community Perspective to Public Scholarship and Engagement

  • by Stacey Muse

In the world of higher education, community engagement projects (teaching, learning, scholarly activities) boil down to people coming together under a common goal to make change. At its best, all actors in the partnership learn and grow. But how do these partnerships start? What is their origin story? To answer this question, I’ll start with my initial community-engaged experiences and tell you about how Public Scholarship and Engagement (PSE) is working to facilitate more community engagement origin stories.

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