Gateways journal is excited to publish our latest general volume of collaborative, critical and change-oriented research and practice. To open this 'publish-as-you-go' volume, we have articles from Ireland, Australia, Canada, the USA, Brazil and Poland: ongoing evidence that community-based participatory research is neither marginal nor momentary.

This themed volume on 'writing research differently' responds to the idea that research is a process, one in which the published research article has mostly deleted what went into making it: conversations, fieldwork, searches for data, readings, negotiations, first drafts, and so on. These deletions raise epistemological and political questions for community-based research. The articles in this volume experiment with and challenge the conventions of research writing, offered as acts of enlargement for both community and research.

Gateways journal is pleased to announce a new opportunity for authors interested in submitting to our general volumes: the ability to submit pre-manuscript proposals for early editorial consideration and feedback. For full details, please see the Editorial.

This themed volume of Gateways brings community and university partners together using two aligned methodologies: community-based research (CBR) and asset-based community development (ABCD). The volume places these methodologies in dialogue with each other, to examine and begin to answer the question that guided the volume’s call for articles: can CBR and ABCD be compatible agents in equitable and sustainable change? This rich collection of articles ranges from conceptual frameworks to hands-on and evidence-based practice and reflection. 

Welcome to Gateways journal's latest general volume. The increasing depth and ambition of community-university engaged research and practice is demonstrated in this collection of articles which are characterised by a high degree of critical innovation and collaborative verve. Further, these efforts are global. This general volume opens with articles from South Africa, the UK, Australia, the USA, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Canada. In many of these articles, the partnerships are complex and sustained; in others, the methodologies are creative and experimental. 

Welcome to Gateways' latest themed volume, 'Urban youth: Engaging young people and their futures in African cities'. This important volume interrogates different ways and means of understanding the lived realities, concerns and aspirations of Africa's urban youth. Articles showcased in this volume - guest edited by Drs Laura Nkula-Wenz, Rike Sitas, and Mercy Brown-Luthango from the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa - not only push the envelope in terms of conceptual debates but also reflect in unconventional ways on various experimental methods of co-production. Gateways is delighted to be publishing this timeous and innovative collection of Afro-centric scholarship.

Welcome to Gateways' latest volume, which marks an exciting new co-sponsorship partnership between the University of Technology Sydney and the University of North Carolina Charlotte. As an 'open' volume, we work to a supportive, flexible timeline: new articles will be added when ready, between now and the end of 2022.

This guest-edited volume of Gateways has power in engaged scholarship at its core. While considerable attention has been paid in the past to institutional questions, an under-theorized aspect of community-based research is the extent to which the positionality and interpersonal relationships between actors also impact the outcomes and sustainability of collaboration. The diverse authors featured in this volume critically and thoughtfully probe the ways in which institutional hierarchies, authority and control intersect with individual agency and community transformation. The result is a collection of nuanced and multi-vocal considerations of the hidden dynamics and complex relationships of university-community partnerships, as well as strategies for improved practice.

Gateways journal’s latest ‘open’ volume of critically engaged research and practice-based articles from around the world is now available. Being ‘open’ is at the core of what we do: all our articles are free to read and free from author processing charges. They are available in both PDF and HTML format. We also publish articles whenever they are ready, to reduce waiting times. In addition, the journal has a number of sections, to encourage a range of writers, topics and approaches. Over the next six months, we will continue to add new articles to this volume.

Gateways journal warmly invites you to our latest volume, which includes a special themed section on knowledge democracy. Individually, and certainly collectively, these articles from around the world strengthen and affirm the backbone of community-based research: they are participatory, community-focussed, framed by methodological care and rigour, and action-orientated. Further, they are rich in the particulars of their individual contexts – concrete and complex. In the face of often enormous challenges, these diverse voices offer notes of hope and resilience for us all. 

This themed volume of Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement examines the ways in which university-community engagement is driving long-term change to the institutional practices, processes and culture of higher education around the world. It seeks to contribute evidence-based discussion and reflection on the central questions facing higher education today, which go to the heart of how we understand and act upon issues of purpose, leadership and sustainability. 

This volume of Gateways marks some important firsts for our journal. It is the first volume under our new partnership between the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University, USA; it is our first 'open' volume, to which new articles will be added over the coming months, as soon as they are ready for publication; and it is the first volume to feature a research article that has come through our Author+Editor mentoring program for engaged scholars from historically underrepresented countries. More on that in February! As ever, we thank you, our readers and authors, for your continued interest in our journal.   

Welcome to the eleventh volume of Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement. This volume demonstrates not only the diversity of the work being undertaken in the area of community engagement but the innovative and rigorous collaborations occurring. Community voice, knowledge and lived experience come through clearly in these articles. As we enter our second decade, Gateways looks forward to continuing its contribution to the development of a strong global dialogue in this important field.

It is with great pleasure that we publish our tenth volume. In 2008, Gateways was created as a joint undertaking by UTS Shopfront at the University of Technology Sydney and the Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago, and published by UTS ePress. Its core mission is to support and advance a growing global movement in higher education that seeks to bring complex, collaborative, multi-disciplinary, outcome-orientated research to a wide audience, in an accessible, ethical and timely manner. Along with our regular research and practice-based articles, this volume of Gateways – in collaboration with the Talloires Network – features six articles by previous winners of the MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship. This is a truly global edition, and we hope you enjoy it.

It is with great pleasure that we publish Gateways' ninth volume, which features engaged research from Canada, Australia, the United States, South Africa, Uganda and Japan. A noteworthy element of a number of these articles is the degree of critical reflection on the strengths and challenges experienced by university-community collaborations. These constructive discussions explore both practical and theoretical implications, not just for established academics but emerging scholars, and those based abroad, who juggle multiple 'homes'. A number of other articles examine the benefits of using arts- and culture-based methodologies when engaging with youth, particularly when dealing with complex issues such as mental health and wellbeing.

We hope you enjoy the volume. Feedback is welcome: please email gateways@uts.edu.au

 

Welcome to our latest volume of Gateways. Over the past eight years of publishing this journal, we have been constantly impressed by the calibre, complexity and ambition of the work under discussion. This volume is no different. Just two examples: the article by Jones et al. explores a long-term, multi-pronged and multi-party collaboration that is delivering real health and education outcomes to children in remote New South Wales, Australia; while Saylors et al. provide a detailed account of their innovative efforts involving various levels of government, rural communities and public health and animal health institutions to better understand human-animal disease transmission in Vietnam. Also noteworthy in this collection is the strong social justice aims of much of the research - from work with the homeless sector in Canada to youth leadership initiatives in Michigan, USA.

Gateways' seventh volume features articles that were originally presented at CU Expo 2013: Engaging Shared Worlds. This international conference is designed to showcase the best practices in community-university partnerships worldwide, and create opportunities for innovative and successful collaborations. This volume of Gateways demonstrates the creative and innovative ways in which academic researchers and knowledgeable community groups can work together to produce results that are important and useful to community, academics and policy makers. Many of the articles included here are co-authored, ensuring that partnership remains the hallmark of the research, right through to dissemination of results.

This volume of Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement features articles notable for the complexity of the collaborative work described, as well as a fine-grained attentiveness to questions of perspective, participation and governance. The authors of Experiences of participation in community-based research decision-making explore how community members may weigh up their involvement in terms of risk, and their reflections resonate with ideas raised in Levels and networks in community partnerships, in which aspirations toward an ‘ideal’ level A engagement are tempered by an appreciation for the way in which different partnerships exist in a networked, interdependent relationship. Perhaps not surprisingly, our two practice-based articles describe multi-party, large-scale, long-term projects – not only full of potential but demonstrating impact. The first reflects on lessons learned from over 20 years of collaborative work between the Medical University of South Carolina and the Gullahs, or Sea Islanders of South Carolina and Georgia, USA; the second details an ambitious project by the National Rural Health Mission in India to integrate community-based monitoring into various levels of the public health system. Methodologically, a number of different approaches and stages are explored: service-learning for teachers of English Language Learners; the application of managerial quantitative research techniques in severely resource-constrained Bolivia; the how and what of participatory action learning and action research (PALAR); and the potential for a needs and readiness assessment to lay the foundations for successful university-community collaboration. We are also pleased to include a taste of activities occurring in Asia with three articles examining the development and implementation of university-community engagement in two Hong Kong universities: HK Baptist University and Lingnan University. In their research for this special section, our guest editors noted how ‘universities in different parts of Asia have taken very different paths in engaging with their respective communities, with quite a number of universities focussed on projects that seek to directly improve the livelihood of their community. In other regions, such as Hong Kong, universities have come to emphasise knowledge and technology transfer, along with service learning and service leadership, as the means by which they apply their knowledge to address identified problems’. At the same time as these on-the-ground efforts are helping to institutionalise community engagement, 2012 saw the formal creation of a regional alliance known as AsiaEngage, which brings together the strengths of the Asia-Talloires Network of Industry and Community Engaged Universities (ATNEU), the ASEAN University Network Thematic Network on University Social Responsibility and Sustainability (AUN-USR&S) and the ASEAN Youth Volunteer Programme (AYVP). We look forward to seeing the further development and reporting of university-community engagement in Asia.

The fifth volume of Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement is testament to the breadth and excellence of engaged research occurring today. A number of articles in this volume examine the potential – and challenges – for using the cultural industries and the creative economy generally as a stimulus for urban regeneration – spatially, economically, socially. Case studies look in detail at a number of ex-industrial hubs struggling to renew and reinvigorate themselves: Wollongong, Australia; Woodstock, Cape Town; south London, UK; and Salford, UK. The two UK practice-based articles make for an interesting contrast in scale: the former looks at 10 years of the Tate Modern 'project' of massive urban renewal in south London, the latter explores how the simple act of retrieving and documenting material remnants from decades of urban demolition in Salford, UK, can help reconnect local communities. Elsewhere, both methodology and theory are under scrutiny – in particular, a number of articles discuss just why we 'do' engagement: exploring issues of transformational change, social experience and the need for reflexivity.

Gateways is pleased to publish its fourth volume, a special edition on the theme of ‘Sustaining community-university partnerships’. It is the result of a collaboration between Gateways and the University of Brighton Community University Partnership Programme (Cupp), and is guest edited by Professor Angie Hart and Simon Northmore of Cupp. Gathered together in this volume are articles from around the world, reflecting on projects and partnerships big and small, young and more established. The articles provide us with a wealth of detailed material and identify some important characteristics of sustainable community-university partnership working, often in the context of socioeconomic disadvantage. The commitment, creativity and ingenuity on display in these articles suggests that there are many reasons for optimism when reflecting on the sustainability of community-university partnerships.

Welcome to the third volume of Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, a joint initiative of the Shopfront at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), and the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University, Chicago. This volume demonstrates the rich diversity of the work being undertaken in the area of community engagement as well as the ongoing reflection that accompanies such work. Included are articles that examine the challenges and opportunities of methodological practices such as participatory action research (PAR), while others explore the complex nature of engaged work ‘at the coalface’. Questions are raised about the various players in community-university engagement; in particular a number of articles examine the role of universities as ‘agents of change’ or intermediaries, capable of harnessing partnerships and public participation for positive action. Also explored are issues around the compatibility of learning from community-engagement versus traditional educational approaches in tertiary institutions.

Welcome to the second volume of Gateways, which is a special issue edited by Martin Hall, Judy Favish, Janice McMillan and Sonwabo Ngcelwane. The volume looks at the various ways social responsiveness is being addressed at the University of Cape Town.

Welcome to Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, a joint initiative of the Shopfront at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University, Chicago. This inaugural issue demonstrates the diversity of the work being undertaken in the area of community engagement. We look forward to developing an international dialogue in this emerging field.