We must acknowledge our positionality to inclusively engage the community

Community engagement is a critical part of becoming a civic university, an institution embedded in, engaging with and serving the local community. Working with the community instead of on the community or perpetuating colonial and white saviour notions of working for the community will support and embolden strategic aims, research and teaching. In this piece I argue that community engagement must move away from universities and work with communities instead of on communities. I urge us to explore our own positionality in this work - who does the work and why?