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About the Urban clinic
- 1. Students, faculty, practitionersand community groups working together on real-time urban policy and planning issues, to help build more equitable cities in Israel 1
- 2. Goals GOALS • Students undergoa transformative and academically enriching experience, gain greater belief in their own efficacy, greater sensitivity to the needs of vulnerable people and practice professional skills. • Jerusalem, and other cities or government, acquire effective new knowledge and methods for more equitable urban policies and plans. • The Faculty of Social Sciences attracts additional students interested in applied social research and enlists outstanding professionals in mentoring and research. 2
- 3. Activities Activities 1. Urban ClinicCourses: year-long hands-on applied field courses for advanced students. Pilot course launching in 2013/2014 2. Fellowships: for students and for practitioners to further develop applied research, including internships and „secondments‟. 3. Knowledge Broker: publications, case studies and good practices; conferences and training workshops; applied research and web-site. Current projects with Ministries of Housing, Interior, and Welfare and cities of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. 1. Incubator for new initiatives, as outgrowth of activities. Examples: Israeli delegation to World Urban Forum; Affordable Housing in Arab –Israeli towns; Prize for Social Planning. 3
- 4. Activities 1. Urban ClinicCourses Structure: year- long courses for 15 advanced students, with faculty member, adjuncts and practitioners. Students form a consultation team, with a defined brief and milestones. Expectation of 15 hours per month of field work. Emphasis on personal reflection, teamwork, skills and effective product. Potential Topics : University as a Good Neighbor (2013/2014); City Councilors and Local Planning Boards; Minhalot and Neighborhood Planning; Arts Policy for a Creative City; Siting school buildings in East Jerusalem. Methods: Research brief in conjunction with municipality and community partners; international comparative survey; community based research with temporary on-site structure; consultations with stakeholders to test findings; final report, conference, and briefings to to press, community, municipality and national decision makers. Option for cooperation with similar US courses. 4
- 5. Activities 2. Fellowships Internships: Placementsfor advanced students, in public sector and nonprofit organizations. Student residents (recent graduates) mentor new students and meet regularly to reflect together on their experiences. Some students „intern‟ with the Urban Clinics to continue developing course work. International students may also be eligible for internships. Practitioners: „Secondments‟ allow government and municipal officials, to spend time at Hebrew University, teaching and researching within the urban clinics. Community Activists: Scholarship for activists in non-profit organizations to develop their own applied research in urban policy and planning. Visiting Academics: to work with students, and to bring their own. 5
- 6. Activities 3. Knowledge Broker Publications:Reports, short films, info-graphics, case studies and best practice documentation, drawing from urban clinic courses, fellowships, and applied research. Conferences, training and workshops: Critical for knowledge dissemination, networking, and inculcating new approaches among professionals and decision makers. Applied research: the Urban Clinic may generate revenues through cutting-edge applied research for the public sector or non-profit organizations, particularly on topics related to current or future courses and with multi-sector research design. Website: User-friendly English and Hebrew website and related online materials is the public face of the Urban Clinic. 6
- 7. Activities 4. Incubator forNew Initiatives • International experience with projects of this type points to the importance of „hatching‟ new initiatives that are often an outgrowth of student courses, fellowships, or applied research, in their early phases. • “Incubation” can include providing guidance and mentoring, meeting space, networking, publications and staff support. • Incubation is particularly important for multi-sector projects, where the University is seen as an honest broker moderating across competing organizations. 7
- 8. Resources Resources Staff: faculty, adjunctfaculty and field-work coordinators for courses. Staff for report writing, web site and graphic design. Fellowships: can be named, linked to donors. Activities: Conferences, international guest experts, training courses, publications. Equipment and Facilities: on-site exhibition space for displays, office equipment and meeting room. 8
Editor's Notes
- #2 Silicon Valley R+D – social sciences version Note that David JK says: add scale and umph (head). Add heart - what ‘s the problem that this is designed to solve, or the opportunity that is created? Why can hebrew U solve this,and why social sciences and why me. And – what’s the budget! Frame excitingly wtihint ‘The Spatial Turn’
- #4 Add in a research piece!!! We act as a national clearing bank of research about cities – a library and study days and user-friendly publications, but also Work with government on what research is needed, and doing RFPs to get out the word for MA student work as well as advise government when they DO contract out research, on oversight, and cross-pollination… Add in Capactity Building – training and ongoing education – with Yakir from מכון ללימודי המשך – somes out of prizes and competitions, that leads to case studues that go to capacity building in transfer of policy… Consider cooperation with Ash Center and or SandfordBorins from University of Toronto (Jewish, told Roy Folkman he wanted to help). Note that the incubator is like R+D of university for cities – innovation and initiatives.
- #5 Three sentences about each potential course topic, making super exciting what the courses would DELIVER. LINK COURSES with an annual multi-sector conference for discourse changing in which student work is used against a broader national urban policy background : For example - if they work on an’hood with new school and old school or integrating the two (ie what I want to do with Genadi and his people) – final conference with international speakers places this in context of neighboruhood effects, integration, development policy – and involves senior decision makers. Note that courses are in cooperation with relevant other Hebrew U departments. So Education Policy in Cities course together with Ed. Department – part of inserting the Spatial Turn. Or Arts Policy we might do with Bezallel. Using the Film Department/ communications. The national conference is about changing attitudes. The student work gives real evidence-base. Can also do a Call for Projects – to see what institutions want us to work with them, and what topics they are proposing, and what funding they may have. This could also work for resaerch.
- #6 Eran R adds the visiting academics. Note that the visiting academics may relate especially to the topic of that year’s clinic – so they can contribute with the clinic, and are part of the end-of-year national conference. Here’s how this appears in deborahShmueli’s MINERVA proposal Graduate student (doctoral and master) scholarships for applicable theses research2. Post-doctoral fellowships / visiting researchers (short and longer term)3. Seed money for research proposals – up to $50004. Support for on-going research – up to $10,0005. Workshops, colloquia and conferences – up to $50006. Development of empirical databases – up to $50007. Publications of relevant research products – up to $2500
- #7 This may need a less cutesy name? It’s a HUGE piece of it. “Colloboration and Partnership” - we lead collaborative programmes, bringing together government, public and private sector partnerships to share new thinking and encourage innovation (from Social Life). What if it’s about capacity building? Taking out the ‘applied research’ – which is really more like ‘tailor-made researcher with clients’ – this is really about all the external relations. Maybe too big. Be careful it isn’t about competing with bodies that offer Continuing Education – like Joint ? It’s not about GMUL HISHTALMUT. Shorter courses and lectures. That fit within University because they A ) get out our freshest research knowledge out to the fieldb) Bring in the freshest field experiences – as input for research, and identifying research, and as lecturers for our studentsc) network. IF I look at this as Hagit’s piece – what’s in it? If Roy’s? Beef up the connections between this and students/faculty. Show how the annual conference will relate to student course work, visiting faculty. And will lead to publications. And then branches into training. Try to draw a hierarcy over time, and include a graphic that shows this! Show how the conference and the student work lead to applied research in which students are involved, and to solicited research from university. But= going MUCH further – RESEARCH is a whole wing – coordinates urbanism research nationally, has a forum of academics involved in urban research across universities (?) to exchange insights and new work, , part f the national urban forum, launches projects like education policy in cities…And HUGELY expand the Practitioner and On-Going Education wing. This is what Hagit would coordinate – it’s about taking the lessons to the field, and inculcating the mid-level professionals. NOT througha government department – though in conjunction with and cooperation with (ie what Joint does and Mafamim). Sou could be courses for Health.Education and Welfare on spatial, that could happen at city /area level. The current course for MOLSA people, moving on to follow-up in their towns as expanding circles…
- #8 Need to give examples. The point here is that The Urban Clinic id’s ideas for new initiatives – and then spins them off, lets go. Can talk of these as “testing and piloting: we test new approaches through practical projects”, towards scaling up. Ie – affordable housing in Arab sector projects – Tiebe as example - delegatio to WORLD Urban Forum, leading to… - CDCs. - Social Planning Prize…. I think this is the section that Roi would head! There’s a lot here about the strategy building – and networking them in, and helping them along at initial stages, and then launching.
- #9 Ideally staff includes Head of Urban Clinic Courses – ieHedva Finnish Head of Practitioner Training - Hagit NYHead of Research and Communications - ? Head of Initatives – ieRoiFolkman. Deputy Director (Ie Ruth SS) Director.