Building Communities of Practice in Higher Education

Camila Devis-Rozental is a Principal Academic in Socio-emotional Intelligence (SEI) and Service Excellence at Bournemouth University, UK. Susanne Rose Clarke is Head of Service Excellence at Bournemouth University, UK.

1. Introduction; 2. Communities of practice as a mechanism for regenerating universities; 3. Putting people at the heart of HE: Communities of practice as humanising spaces; 4. Cultivating knowledge: The evolution of communities of practice and their role in interdisciplinary collaboration; 5. Peering over the parapet; using communities of practice to break down silos of working practice; 6. Enabling organisational change and strategic alignment, disrupting hierarchies and mapping career pathways through communities of practice; 7. Knowledge co-production or epistemic injustice? Attending to questions of power in transdisciplinary technology communities of practice; 8. Higher education practice: Enabling transformation in individuals and groups; 9. Drawing edges: A community of practice set up during doctoral studies to explore the boundaries of drawing practice and research; 10. Conclusion and looking to the future of communities of practice in higher education