Information for communities
Service learning sees communities like yours benefit from university students helping deliver services/projects identified as important to local people as part of their educational experience.
Both communities and students get an equal amount of benefit. Your community would receive assistance in meeting the needs of your members while our students learn and develop skills that will help them in their studies and after they graduate.
For example, medical students could provide free blood pressure checks in local community venues that are easy for residents to access. Or dentistry students may run oral health sessions in schools to help children learn about the importance of good dental hygiene.
If you have a service learning project in mind for your community, contact us to see what the next steps would be.
What's in it for you?
- Become empowered to meet the needs of members of your community.
- Create new community projects for people to get involved with.
- Draw on the knowledge and expertise of the University's students and staff to help tackle community issues, for example, lack of healthcare education.
- Learn from new perspectives and ways of doing things.
- Your input can help shape the learning experiences of today's students, influencing the way they work in the future.
- Build sustainable, meaningful and positive community links with the University.
- Create opportunities for increasing awareness and understanding of your community.
- Help encourage people in your community to become interested in higher education.
- University students can become role models for younger generations within your community.
Contact us
If you have an issue that you think our students can work with you to solve, please get in touch by completing our online form.
We will then discuss your needs with you to see if service learning could help, and collaborate with you and our students to develop a service learning opportunity that will benefit everyone.
