Julie is a researcher, writer and tutor with a keen interest in the culture of higher education and a keen interest in social history. She currently works independently as a consultant in public & community engagement with research & teaching (research, evaluation, facilitation & training), an independent publisher trading as Gotthavebooks and an author. Julie project managed the 2017 Cambridge History Festival, and is now available for talks on the history of Heffers of Cambridge, based on her new book, ‘This book is about Heffers’ (see below).
Julie can be contacted by email – julie@gottahavebooks.co.uk
See below for more details of Julie’s research and professional experience.
RESEARCH
‘The academy & community: seeking authentic voices inside higher education’ PhD (no corrections), University of East Anglia, (2016)
The research explores ‘community’ as perceived and experienced by academics associated with one higher education institution. Focusing on the meaning and experience of community, the research reveals living academic identities wrought by the concrete reality of experiencing community in its various forms. ‘Authentic voices’ in this context means voices that are firmly rooted in day-to-day lived experience and not abstract or institutionalised. The imperative for the research lies in the quest to break free from the constraints of the calculative thinking that pervades higher education. The dominant tone of the literature on academic community is disconsolate but not despairing. The dominant language is that of professional practice and values. The empirical dimensions of the research comprises a series of extended conversations and focus groups with twelve academics and a heuristic analysis, channelled through five themes, seeking the individual’s idea and experience of community and its orientation to their status, their academic practice and their institution and environment. The original contribution to knowledge is the revelation of the significance of value and values in the meaning and experience of community and how these may be applied in a theoretical and practical context when constructing and understanding community both as a concept, and as lived experience. Value and values are brought together in a suggested new model (called the ‘infinity model’), a relational construct that signifies the formation and experience of community through a continual or infinite dynamic between ‘value and validity’ (centred on status and institution), and ‘values and virtue’ (centred on practice and elements of community), realised through the nexus of individual or collective agency. The new model has research and agentic potential as a framework for both investigating and realising the social relations of the intellectual field.
‘Random Strangers: an insight into the service user’s experience of the St Martins Housing Trust Temporary Accommodation Project (2003)
Qualitative research involving semi-structured interviews and focus groups with homeless people in Norwich. Research findings used by Norwich City Council as evidence to support a successful case for the permanent funding of the Temporary Accommodation Project for single homeless people in 2003
Postgraduate Diploma Management Studies (Distinction)
Housing problems experienced by elderly owner occupiers: with a particular focus upon Sheffield (1985)
Qualitative research involving demographic analysis, & unstructured interviews with elderly residents in the city of Sheffield
Postgraduate Diploma in Housing Administration
Ethnography of a Psychiatric Day Clinic (1983)
Qualitative research involving a six week placement observing the multi-disciplinary team, participant observation with daily recordings, a desktop survey of the domiciliary visit records, a semi-structured interview with all staff members & a questionnaire
BA (Hons) II-I, Social Administration, University of Wales, Bangor
PUBLICATIONS & BLOGS
‘This book is about Heffers’ (2016): an illustrated social history of Heffers of Cambridge. Available on Amazon Marketplace and via Gottahavebooks. Can also be ordered from any bookshop and is stocked by Heffers of Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Cambridge.
Guest blog for the Society for Research into Higher Education, November 2014 http://srheblog.com/2014/11/28/the-climategate-clarion-call-is-it-time-for-another/
Guest blog for the Society for Research into Higher Education, March 2014 – http://srheblog.com/2014/03/
Guest blog and workshop for ‘Engaging Research’, the Open University’s RCUK Catalyst Programme, November 2013 – http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/per/?p=1154
Contributing author, Bowater, L & Yeoman, K (2012), ‘Science Communication: a practical guide for scientists’, Wiley-Blackwell
CUE East article on ‘Why connect?’ in ARVAC Bulletin (Association for Research in the Voluntary & Community Sector) 112, June 2010 http://www.arvac.org.uk/home
CUE East publications –
CUE East Scrapbook 2008 – 2012
CUE East Case Study Publication – Evaluate, Reflect & Learn
CUE East Case Study Publication – Public Engagement with Research at the University of East Anglia
CUE East Case Study Publication – Public Engagement with Teaching at the University of East Anglia
CUE East Case Study Publication – Public Engagement Continuing Professional Development Programme
CUE East Newsletter Spring/Summer 2011, containing, ‘CUE East and the University of East Anglia: a story of change’
http://www.uea.ac.uk/community-university-engagement/resources/publications
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES (RESEARCH)
Staff training on engagement and evaluation for the University of East Anglia’s Centre for Staff & Educational Development: sessions commissioned for 2016/17 and 2017/18.
Poster – ‘Collaboration & Convergence for building a new PPI Community at CLAHRC East of England’, National Institute for Health Research, Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care, East of England, INVOLVE Conference, November 2014
Workshop and guest blog for Engaging Research, the Open University’s RCUK Catalyst Programme, November 2013 – http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/per/?p=1154
Book discussant – Rolfe, G (2012) The University in Dissent: scholarship in the corporate university’, SRHE, at School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, 25th June 2013
Invited speaker – Fulbright Visiting Scholar Programme, ‘Community Participation in Research: from paradigms to practice’, University of East Anglia, 6th May – 14th June 2013: Workshop Four convenor & speaker, ‘The role of universities in encouraging community participation in research’, presentation, ‘How do you define, build and nurture a ‘research community’?’ 29th May 2013
Poster – Society for Research into Higher Education Newer Researchers and Annual Conference 2012 – poster presentation on doctoral research
Keynote – ‘Community research collaboration with academics – are they really hard to reach?’, Association for Research in the Voluntary & Community Sector AGM Conference, November 2011,
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES (PROFESSIONAL)
Facilitator – PPI in Research Oversight Committee, Cambridge University Health Partnership, ‘Evaluating PPI across the CUHP: Why and How’, 14th March 2016
Facilitator & Evaluator – Master Classes on Patient & Public Involvement in Research for CLARHC EoE, July 2015.
Commissioned workshops – ‘An Introduction to Engagement & Evaluation’ (three sessions for the Centre for Staff & Educational Development, University of East Anglia) and an additional all day workshop on ‘A step-by-step guide to evaluating your engagement activity’, 2014/15 & 2015/16. Further workshops commissioned for 2016/17.
Contribution to UEA Social Science Faculty Graduate School Programme – ‘An Introduction to Public & Community Engagement’, 2014/15
Invited speaker – RCUK Catalyst Programme National Gathering, Queen Mary University of London, 5th Sept 2013
Invited speaker – SRHE Postgraduate Issue seminar, ‘Public Engagement – what’s in it for PGRs and HEIs? 19th June 2013
Invited speaker – Beacons Workshop, Engage 2013 Conference, November 2013
Invited speaker – RCUK workshop, ‘Supporting public engagement as a Pathway to Impact’, Vitae International Conference, 5th & 6th September 2011
Invited speaker – Reward & Recognition Workshop, ‘Where ‘Community’ and ‘Public’ Meet – Embedding the Community Engagement Agenda’, University of Nottingham, 16th March 2011
Keynote – ‘Volunteering as a part of public & community engagement’ at the Volunteering for Employability Conference; a continuum of opportunity – helping students volunteer for employability’, 23rd March 2011, University of Hertfordshire & University of Bedfordshire
Invited speaker – Beacons Workshop, Engage 2010 Conference, 7th December 2010
Invited speaker – ‘What we mean by public engagement & why it matters’, Vitae EE Hub and CUE East: Eastern Region colloquium on Public Engagement with research, University of Cambridge, 29th November 2010
Invited speaker, ‘Public Engagement, themes, challenges & solutions’, Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia, 15th September 2010
Invited speaker – Beacons Workshop, Community University Partnership Programme Conference, University of Brighton, April 2008
Invited speaker – Beacons Workshop, British Science Association Communication Conference, June 2009
Invited speaker – ‘Measuring academic attitudes towards public and community engagement and the factors affecting involvement’, joint presentation on baseline research with Lisa McDaid at Association of Universities East of England CE Seminar on Measuring academic attitudes towards public and community engagement and the factors affecting involvement, 4th March 09
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH RESEARCH
Stand-up comedy routine – Bright Club Norwich, June 2011
‘Random Strangers’ research used by Norwich City Council to support a successful case for the permanent funding of the Temporary Accommodation Project (2003)
RESEARCH COUNCIL & DEVELOPMENT FUNDING
National Institute for Health Research – Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care, East of England, (Professor Fiona Poland, School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia) (Research Fellow), Jan 2014 – March 2016
Arts & Humanities Research Council – Preserving Place: a cultural mapping exercise (Dr Karen Smythe) (research team), 30th June 2014 to 30th June 2015
Arts & Humanities Research Council – UEA Research for Community Heritage Ideas Bank: realising your idea (Dr Sarah Spooner), 1st Feb 2013 – 31st Jan 2014 (project management and research team)
Arts & Humanities Research Council – UEA Research for Community Heritage Ideas Bank: starting with your idea (Dr Sarah Spooner), 1st Feb – 30th November 2012 (project management and research team)
Beacon for Public Engagement (Julie E Bounford & Professor Keith Roberts), Jan 2008 – July 2012, Higher Education Funding Councils, Research Councils UK & the Wellcome Trust
TRUSTEESHIPS, CONSULTANCY AND ADVISORY BOARDS
Member of the Nottingham RCUK Catalyst Programme Advisory Board, 2012 – 2015
Member of the RSA Norwich Education Forum convened by Professor John Elliott
Member of ARVAC, the Association for Research in the Voluntary & Community Sector
SENIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Manager, 2017 Cambridge History Festival, Museum of Cambridge (Dec 2016 – March 2017)
University of East Anglia & affiliated organisations – 2005 to 2016
Research Fellow in Patient & Public Involvement in Research, East of England CLAHRC (Jan 2014 – March 2016)
Research Fellow, School of Literature, Drama & Creative Writing (June 2014 – June 2015)
Community University Engagement Manager (July 2012 – July 2014)
Project Director, Community University Engagement East, a national Beacon for Public Engagement (Jan 2008 – June 2012)
Public & Community Sector Liaison Manager (Feb 2005 – Dec 2007)
Voluntary & Community Sector – 2000 to 2005
Chief Executive Officer, Victim Support Norfolk
Head of Administration, St Martins Housing Trust, Norwich
Sessional Lecturer, City College Norwich, Level 4 Voluntary Sector Management Diploma
Social Policy (Norwich City Council) – 1998 to 2000
Partnerships & Development Manager, Social Policy
Acting Equality & Service Development Manager
Service Development Officer with special responsibility for ethnic minorities
Housing (Norwich City Council) – 1985 to 1998
Housing Policy Officer
Senior Housing Adviser
Housing Management Officer
Homeless Persons Officer
VOLUNTARY EXPERIENCE
Trustee of ARVAC, the Association for Research in the Voluntary & Community Sector (2008 to 2014)
Invigilator, North Walsham High School, Norfolk (2006 to 2009)
Trustee of NORCAS substance misuse charity (2002 to 2009)
Norwich Samaritans Volunteer (1990-1992)
Leeway, Norwich Women’s Refuge, Management Committee Member (1989-1992)
Suffolk Mental Health Association Volunteer & Cambridge Vegetarian Society (1985-1987)
Miners’ Strike Support Group and Labour Housing Group (Sheffield, 1984-85)
Cambridge Women’s Aid Refuge Support Group Worker (full time volunteer, second gap year, 1983-84)
College Nightline Volunteer and Student Union Education & Welfare Volunteer (1980-83)
Traveller in North America (first gap year, 1979-1980)
Cambridge Phab Volunteer, 1974-1979
