Dr Juliet Millican

National Teaching Fellow 2013 Dr Juliet Millican has been developing student community engagement programmes at the university since 2004. She was initially employed as a consultant before joining the Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) in 2006 as a development manager. In this role she introduced a cross-University module that included experiential and reflective learning and was influential in the inclusion of socially committed education into the university's strategic plan. Juliet is particularly concerned with working affectively with students; exploring attitudes to equalities and social justice through applied learning. In her current role as deputy director she runs a postgraduate certificate in community engagement, manages a local knowledge exchange and works strategically to introduce engaged learning across the curriculum. Juliet has a background in community education, adult literacy and international development and has worked internationally for the past 20 years, consulting on community literacy and community development programmes and advising on policy and practice. She brought her international experience into CUPP where she started a research and development unit, sharing experience of community engagement with universities in other parts of the world. She was instrumental in organising a Pan-African conference on community engagement in Dakar, Senegal and has supported colleagues in Africa and Europe to develop their own community engagement programmes. Juliet is a member of the Global Alliance of Community Based research (GACER) through which she has worked closely with the UNESCO chair for Social Commitment in Higher Education to promote engagement work.