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The 2022 International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from September 16-18, 2022. This conference theme will highlight research focused on ways in which social innovation may serve as a framework for institutional change. How can social innovation help rewire higher education in and for a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (“VUCA”) world? We invite researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to share research on this topic.
Higher education around the world is facing a future where the only constant is change. The old models no longer meet the needs of students or of society. Students are facing a future where they will need to upskill constantly as the knowledge and skills, they are taught quickly become obsolete. Demographic shifts, technological innovation, climate change, and resultant societal shifts demand an increasingly agile higher education system able to adapt to the volatility and complexity of our shared global future. Social innovation as a practice and as a concept provides important frameworks and lenses through which higher education might re-envision and re-invent itself to better meet the needs of a constantly changing world.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Social change methodologies in strategic planning
Social change as catalyst for institutional change
Integrating social innovation principles into institutional vision, mission, strategies, and goals
Developing and leveraging assessment and evaluation outcomes to:
Facilitate mindset shift
Engage community and drive iteration
Drive alignment and collaboration
Facilitate Institutional transformation
Innovative change management approaches
Strategies to generate buy-in for institutional transformation
Faculty engagement
Social innovation as institutional resilience strategy
Agile leadership for social innovation
Other topics pertaining to social innovation as a framework for institutional change are welcome.