The social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement: imagining different communities and making them happen.
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Sch of Social and Political Science
Abstract
Our research studies how communities connect people, both today and in the past. These connections take many forms, but often include people coming together to seek change and pursue a different future. We are interested in the role imagination plays in how such futures are conceived and pursued. The history of people's involvement in community initiatives includes both successful innovation and frustration and disappointment, in the UK and elsewhere. Our project will learn from both scenarios. We will study community connections in different types of community (some present, some past). Using our new knowledge, together we will imagine how communities might be different and experiment with different forms of community building.
Communities are made up of people who share some things in common, but also have differences. In the light of this we want to ask four main questions: 1) What are the best ways of conceptualising, researching and promoting connected communities so that they have the potential to accommodate and benefit from social, cultural and economic differences and diverse opinions and practices? 2) What does the history of civic engagement tell us about how and why the social, historical, cultural and democratic context matters to community-building? 3) What role can imagining better futures play in capturing and sustaining enthusiasm and momentum for change? 4) Is community research being transformed by developments in research methodologies, particularly the development of creative and collaborative methods?
Our approach to these questions challenges ideas of community that focus on what is lacking, highlighting instead the role that harnessing imagination plays in shaping community futures. It brings together researchers from a range of disciplines across the social sciences and arts and humanities interested in community relationships together with partner organisations dedicated to community development in a range of locations. International colleagues will add further dimensions to the consortium's activities, acting as keynote speakers at events, and as advisory committee members.
The projects will employ a range of approaches to research, but with collaborative and participatory methods (community partners and universities working together) being central. Several projects involve going back to sites of previous research to explore what can be learned that is of relevance to to-day's debates about community. The return to sites of the Community Development Project of the late 1960s/early 1970s will include analysis of background statistics, documentary records, interviews, oral history, community arts and other community-based activities, tracing that history and its legacies down to the present. We will revisit culture and arts projects, and projects working with disadvantaged groups, all of which have sought to promote community resilience. Reflections on the lessons of these experiences will feed into planned interventions with members of 'disadvantaged' communities to fire imagination about the future and help to build resilience and a momentum for change. Another project will investigate what motivates volunteers to cross social and geographical boundaries, using mapping techniques, surveys and focus groups to capture these connections. The context of this proposal is a strong impetus globally towards people looking for new ways to participate in decision-making about issues that affect their lives, and to participate in research that involves them - the so-called 'democratisation of social research'. The various strands of research are held together by the team's shared interests in how people envisage co-operating and how these ideas get put into practice in diverse communities. Answering these questions requires working collaboratively to look at a range of different cases, both past and present, and to draw appropriate conclusions to inform current debates and visions of the future.
Communities are made up of people who share some things in common, but also have differences. In the light of this we want to ask four main questions: 1) What are the best ways of conceptualising, researching and promoting connected communities so that they have the potential to accommodate and benefit from social, cultural and economic differences and diverse opinions and practices? 2) What does the history of civic engagement tell us about how and why the social, historical, cultural and democratic context matters to community-building? 3) What role can imagining better futures play in capturing and sustaining enthusiasm and momentum for change? 4) Is community research being transformed by developments in research methodologies, particularly the development of creative and collaborative methods?
Our approach to these questions challenges ideas of community that focus on what is lacking, highlighting instead the role that harnessing imagination plays in shaping community futures. It brings together researchers from a range of disciplines across the social sciences and arts and humanities interested in community relationships together with partner organisations dedicated to community development in a range of locations. International colleagues will add further dimensions to the consortium's activities, acting as keynote speakers at events, and as advisory committee members.
The projects will employ a range of approaches to research, but with collaborative and participatory methods (community partners and universities working together) being central. Several projects involve going back to sites of previous research to explore what can be learned that is of relevance to to-day's debates about community. The return to sites of the Community Development Project of the late 1960s/early 1970s will include analysis of background statistics, documentary records, interviews, oral history, community arts and other community-based activities, tracing that history and its legacies down to the present. We will revisit culture and arts projects, and projects working with disadvantaged groups, all of which have sought to promote community resilience. Reflections on the lessons of these experiences will feed into planned interventions with members of 'disadvantaged' communities to fire imagination about the future and help to build resilience and a momentum for change. Another project will investigate what motivates volunteers to cross social and geographical boundaries, using mapping techniques, surveys and focus groups to capture these connections. The context of this proposal is a strong impetus globally towards people looking for new ways to participate in decision-making about issues that affect their lives, and to participate in research that involves them - the so-called 'democratisation of social research'. The various strands of research are held together by the team's shared interests in how people envisage co-operating and how these ideas get put into practice in diverse communities. Answering these questions requires working collaboratively to look at a range of different cases, both past and present, and to draw appropriate conclusions to inform current debates and visions of the future.
Planned Impact
Many groups can be identified that will benefit from this research. Most direct beneficiaries are the organizations outside of academia who have already agreed to collaborate with the projects in the consortium, including 37 whose letters of support are included in this application. Others have agreed verbally. Collectively these partners represent a very wide range of organizations including museums and galleries, charities, and national organizations as well as local community-based organizations with established links to both community members and policy-makers. This range of organizations can only grow as the research proceeds. Several of the proposed projects involve re-visiting organizations involved in previous community-university partnerships (such as those in the SECC and Beacons programmes), and further broadening of the network of organizations benefitting from the research will occur through the programme of annual conferences and other dissemination events and through the use of the project website to reach out. In the commercial private sector, efforts will be made to engage with architects and builders involved in community-building and regeneration, through invitations to the conference at which Cheshire will provide an international perspective. Similar invitations will be targeted at public, voluntary and commercial sector organizations in relation to the conferences devoted to collaborative working, fostering historical imagination, democratic methods for researching communities, the sights and sounds of imagined community futures, and comparative perspectives on community dvelopment, all of which will be of interest to commercial organizations in the cultural sector. Finally, beneficiaries will include individuals who do not necessarily have formal links to organizations. The consortium will draw on the wealth of its members' experience of engaging the wider public through dissemination events and other activities.
These diverse groups will benefit in several ways. The most direct of these relate to the outcomes of the projects that involve planned interventions to explore the potential of communities of practice to foster resilience and momentum for change among members of disadvantaged communities. Alongside these projects are others which are also designed to promote active engagement in the process of thinking about different community futures and making them happen. Community relationships are at the heart of people's quality of life, and the promotion of active engagement in community processes has the potential to contribute to this, especially if these activities are inclusive and participatory. In working towards the achievement of this ideal, the consortium's approach emphasises the importance of learning from experience, both the knowledge of previous community development initiatives in the UK and lessons derived through engagement with international partners, who will each make extended visits to allow them to feed in across the consortium. The public policy dimensions of these issues include examination of how community initiatives avoid the well-known pitfalls of 'top-down' processes, while the fact that diverse communities in the UK will be involved will allow direct engagement with the localism agenda. The fact that the consortium's work involves a programme that unfolds over 5 years means that projects later on in the schedule will be able to build on the results of the earlier work, such as the engagement with the Participedia project on participatory politics. These results will be available at the end of year one, and community partners and advisory group members will advise on how best to feed them into the later projects. In this way, the development of skills in more democratic of research among academic researchers and community members will be promoted. Efforts will also be made to maximise the legacy of the consortium's work through creation of durable resources.
These diverse groups will benefit in several ways. The most direct of these relate to the outcomes of the projects that involve planned interventions to explore the potential of communities of practice to foster resilience and momentum for change among members of disadvantaged communities. Alongside these projects are others which are also designed to promote active engagement in the process of thinking about different community futures and making them happen. Community relationships are at the heart of people's quality of life, and the promotion of active engagement in community processes has the potential to contribute to this, especially if these activities are inclusive and participatory. In working towards the achievement of this ideal, the consortium's approach emphasises the importance of learning from experience, both the knowledge of previous community development initiatives in the UK and lessons derived through engagement with international partners, who will each make extended visits to allow them to feed in across the consortium. The public policy dimensions of these issues include examination of how community initiatives avoid the well-known pitfalls of 'top-down' processes, while the fact that diverse communities in the UK will be involved will allow direct engagement with the localism agenda. The fact that the consortium's work involves a programme that unfolds over 5 years means that projects later on in the schedule will be able to build on the results of the earlier work, such as the engagement with the Participedia project on participatory politics. These results will be available at the end of year one, and community partners and advisory group members will advise on how best to feed them into the later projects. In this way, the development of skills in more democratic of research among academic researchers and community members will be promoted. Efforts will also be made to maximise the legacy of the consortium's work through creation of durable resources.
Organisations
- University of Edinburgh (Lead Research Organisation)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (Co-funder)
- Remembering the Past, Resourcing the Future, North Shields (Collaboration)
- Southampton City Council (Collaboration)
- MEADOW WELL CONNECTED (Collaboration)
- MIND (Mental Health Charity) (Collaboration)
- Sussex Recovery College (Collaboration)
- Riverside Community Health Project, Newcastle (Collaboration)
- Rotherham Youth Services (Collaboration)
- Museums Sheffield (Collaboration)
- Pendower Good Neighbour Project, Newcastle (Collaboration)
- Patchwork Project, Newcastle (Collaboration)
- Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (Collaboration)
- Kirklees Local TV (Collaboration)
- Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (Collaboration)
- St James' Heritage and Environment Group (Collaboration)
- London Borough Of Lewisham (Collaboration)
- West Newcastle Picture History Collection (Collaboration)
- YoungMinds (Collaboration)
- Hepworth Wakefield (Collaboration)
- Cedarwood Trust (Collaboration)
- Phoenix Detached Youth Project, North Shields (Collaboration)
- Site Gallery, Sheffield (Collaboration)
- SUSSEX PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (Collaboration)
- SEARCH Newcastle upon Tyne (Collaboration)
Publications
Ward P
(2018)
Sound system culture: Place, space and identity in the United Kingdom 1960-1989
in Historia Contemporánea
Macpherson, H.
(2014)
Impacts Between Academic Researchers and Community Partners: Some Critical Reflections on Impact Agendas in a "Visual Arts for Resilience" Research Project
in ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
Macpherson H
(2014)
Impacts Between Academic Researchers and Community Partners: Some Critical Reflections on Impact Agendas in a "Visual Arts for Resilience" Research Project
in ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
Lyon D
(2015)
Researching young people's orientations to the future: the methodological challenges of using arts practice
in Qualitative Research
Koukoutas E
(2013)
Greek adaptation of the Resilience Framework
Hart A
(2014)
RESILIENCE-BUILDING WITH DISABLED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE: A REVIEW AND CRITIQUE OF THE ACADEMIC EVIDENCE BASE
in International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies
Hackett A
(2017)
In amongst the glitter and the squashed blueberries: crafting a collaborative lens for children's literacy pedagogy in a community setting
in Pedagogies: An International Journal
Green J
(2017)
Action-research in context: revisiting the 1970s Benwell Community Development Project
in Community Development Journal
Georgiadi M
(2020)
How Adolescent Students with Disabilities and /or Complex Needs Perceive the Notion of Resilience: A Study in Greece and England
in International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research
Carpenter M
(2017)
From self-help to class struggle: revisiting Coventry Community Development Project's 1970s journey of discovery
in Community Development Journal
Brighton Kinship Carers Research Group
(2013)
A Kinship Carer's Resource: Using Resilience Ideas in Practice
Aumann K
(2013)
Building community university partnership resilience
Armstrong A
(2017)
Organizing for change: North Tyneside Community Development Project and its legacy
in Community Development Journal
Andrew R
(2015)
Safe to Imagine, Space to Belong: Reflections on nurturing resilience at the Hepworth Wakefield
in Engage 36 Resilience
Title | Art work and critical comments on art made by young women from a rent deposit scheme in Wakefield |
Description | A group of young women from a rent deposit scheme in Wakefield worked with a visual artist and a historian over 6 weeks to explore landscape images of Wakefield and to create art in response to this. The art work was mounted and put in the rent deposit scheme house they lived in. The response to the art was mounted and put in The Hepworth Wakefield gallery along with the original art. |
Type Of Art | Artwork |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | The young women were very proud of their art work. The RA involved is currently writing an article called 'Co-production: Processes and practices of research without a map'. |
Title | Co-production research: The challenges and opportunities with minority communities and universities |
Description | The partnership between Universities and the African Descent Community in co-produced research has been little to virtually non-existent for many years. This production briefly explores the possible barriers, the challenges and what steps Universities and the African Descent Community could take to establish better partnerships in the interest of Co-production of research. This production's principal objective is to create meaningful dialogue and healthy debate in Co-production research with Minority Ethnic Communities and Universities. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | Embryonic development of a local forum to discuss relations between the department of history, English, languages and media at University of Huddersfield and communities of African-descent in Kirklees. |
URL | http://www.kirkleeslocaltv.com/index.php/videos/co-production-university-of-huddersfield-and-the-afr... |
Title | From Where I am From: exhibition of art work by young women from Eastern Europe at the University of Sheffield |
Description | The young women were based in a school in Rotherham. They had written about their imagined better futures and also created art work with a visual artist about their experiences. They also choreographed a short dance about their heritage which was Roma heritage. The exhibition was held in Jessop West Exhibition centre at the University of Sheffield. |
Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | A number of academics from the School of English attended the exhibition. The young women took the academics round the exhibition. Many of the young women are now considering going to university, having not considered this before. |
Title | Portraits of British Muslims |
Description | The 'Portraits of British Muslims' project is an ongoing project whereby artist Zahir Rafiq is creating a series of portraits of ordinary British Muslims. These will be displayed in the final exhibition. The portraits have been displayed in the Edinburgh showcase in July 2013 and subsequently in Rotherham town centre in October 2014. |
Type Of Art | Artwork |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | This project is ongoing, however conversations have arisen as a result of the portraits being displayed. |
Title | Resilience House |
Description | The 'Resilience House' was a creative exhibition that was shown at the Connected Communities Festival 2014 at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. The 'Resilience House' exhibition showcased the various RCUK resilience related projects with which the University of Brighton and boingboing have been involved. Within the 'Resilience House' there were various areas that corresponded to the 5 key areas of the resilience framework and within these we displayed videos, posters, resilience guides and other artistic outputs. Young people with complex needs and mental health difficulties co-curated the event and they explained the outputs to the visitors and were also involved in interactive aspects of the house such as making a 'Resilient tablecloth' and making a 'Resilience cake'. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | The festival ran for 2 days and on the second day, the 'Resilience House' was viewed by 135 people (accurate visitor statistics for day one are not available). Visitors to the stand asked questions about the projects that we have been working on and were keen to learn more about how we work with the various community partners. We have received requests to exhibit the 'Resilience House' at other conferences and events in the UK. The young people who co-curated and participated in the event have reported being more confident and they have experienced improvements in their mental health. Boingboing has appointed one of the young people as an artist in residence and they have a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Brighton. Other young people have been co-trainers at numerous events and a group of the young people are undertaking a cooperative research project on resilience. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWMGU9nKX9U |
Title | Resilience at Eleanor Smith School (Film) |
Description | This 7 minute film looks at how the Eleanor Smith School in Newham has implemented a whole school approach to resilience. The whole film is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXiZoegfrKQ and sections of the film are integrated within the Academic Resilience microsite on the YoungMinds website. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Impact | Other schools are using the film as an inspiration to plan their own resilience interventions. The film has been viewed over 300 times. |
URL | http://www.youngminds.org.uk/training_services/academic_resilience/what_schools_can_do |
Title | Resilience at Hove Park School (Film) |
Description | Resilience at Hove Park School is a 10 minute film explaining how Hove Park School has implemented a whole school approach to resilience. The complete film is available on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzwa9AqkzVs) and sections of the film are within the Academic Resilience microsite on the YoungMinds website. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Impact | The film has been viewed over 1,000 times on YouTube and other schools are using the film as an inspiration to plan their own resilience interventions. |
URL | http://www.youngminds.org.uk/training_services/academic_resilience/what_is_academic_resilience |
Title | Resilience at Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School in Holloway, Islington (Film) |
Description | This is a short film that looks at how the Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School in Holloway, Islington, London implemented a whole school approach to buidling resilience. The film is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEv8galbGLc#t=11 and it is also part of the Academic Resilience micro-siite on the YoungMinds website: http://www.youngminds.org.uk/training_services/academic_resilience/what_schools_can_do |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Impact | Other schools are using the film as an inspiration to plan their own resilience interventions. The video has been viewed over 300 times. |
URL | http://www.youngminds.org.uk/training_services/academic_resilience/what_schools_can_do |
Title | Sound System Culture exhibition |
Description | Heritage HiFi was installed at the University of Huddersfield's Researcher Hub as a centrepiece for the Sound System Culture Exhibition. The Sound System was in action playing classic reggae on Thursday, 27 March (5pm-6pm) and Thursday, 3 April (5pm-6pm). In addition to authentic reggae music, Heritage HiFi will also be used to spin specially created "dub plates", which combine music with passages of oral reminiscences from people interviewed for the project. The project was initiated by Let's Go (Yorkshire) and led by Mandeep Samra, with Paul Ward and PhD students at the University of Huddersfield co-producing elements of the research and analysis. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | 515 people visited the exhibition. The Sound System Culture project secured national Arts Council funding to make the exhibition national. |
URL | https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2014/march/fully-functionalretrosoundmachineerectedoncampus.php |
Title | The Fabric of Our Lives |
Description | This was a piece of material on which was sewn stories, poems and handmade books and images from the 'Listening Voices Telling Stories' project. The material was displayed as an art work in Durham in September 2014. It is displayed in Mowbray Gardens Library in East Herringthorpe in Rotherham. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | The image of the art work was displayed in a blog post alongside accompanying text describing the project on the Storying Sheffield website. |
URL | http://www.storyingsheffield.com/rotherham-imagined-communities/ |
Title | Weightless Utopias by Helen Benigson: Residency at the Site Gallery, Sheffield |
Description | This was a residency funded through the Imagine project. Helen Benigson creates visceral environments concerned with weight, technology, sexy images and sounds. Weightless Utopias draws attention to and challenges cultural obsession with weight and desired physical shape, as well as exploring ideas around communal performance and sharing. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | The project sparked a discussion about the nature of utopias. |
URL | http://www.sitegallery.org/archives/6655 |
Description | Many communities are excluded from decision-making processes and are marginalised in relation to civic engagement and community participation. The Imagine project sought to address these issues through a series of partnerships between local universities and non-academic communities of place, interest and identity. These partnerships fostered discussions about the significance and meaning of working together, within and across communities. Everyone accepted that 'community' was difficult to define, but mostly we felt that the term symbolised a desire to live and work together for mutual benefit, rather than for the enrichment or accumulation of power by a few in society. Hence, 'community development', as a value-based process, which aims to address imbalances in power and bring about change founded on social justice, equality and inclusion, came to the fore as a way of understanding questions of civic engagement and participation in the communities in which we live and work. In particular, the notion of 'community development' underlined the importance of co-productive research as an embedded and relational approach, rather than as quick, instrumental process. Our finding are drawn across four distinct work streams: In Brighton, our work set out to learn about and develop resilience based approaches with young people who face challenging life situations. Young people worked collectively to create a resilience toolkit - a resource of products and ideas for developing resilience e.g. One Step Forward, a guide developing by looked after children and Changing Lanes, a resource developed by young men with experience of the criminal justice system. The young people, in partnership with BoingBoing and the the University of Brighton School of Design, re-imagined the toolkit through the process of design. This work and its findings demonstrated the importance of arts-based methodologies and partnership working to transform the ways that young people are supported in relation to their mental health. Of particular significance was the role of poetry, both as a form of expression and as a mode of inquiry. We also developed the idea of 'Belonging Maps', which highlighted the significance of material resources and artefacts when working with diverse communities. This stream of work explored the structures of knowledge production and sharing that occurs within communities. Our findings have addressed the questions that are concerned with how communities can research their own histories and also what methodologies are best for doing that research. The work of the Imagine project in Brighton directly contributed to the successful expansion of this work to Blackpool through securing a 10.4 million grant. On Tyneside, community partners and academics from Durham University explored changing perspectives on civic engagement, with particular emphasis on community-based arts and heritage projects. A key finding was that People belonging to communities of place, identity and interest need to be able to reclaim their own histories. In one part of the Imagine project, a research team explored activities, achievements and legacies of the Community Development Projects (CDPs) of the 1970's in three areas: Benwell (Newcastle), North Shields and Hillfields (Coventry). The CDPs were part of an experimental Home Office anti-poverty programme, initiated in the late 1960s in 12 'deprived' neighbourhoods, adopting an action-research approach. The CDPs understood the value of historical research and importance of documenting 'hidden histories' of local working people to counter histories of the powerful. In Benwell, North Shields and Coventry today groups of local people are keen to write their own histories to challenge the stigma still associated with the areas, thus strengthening and empowering local community groups (see www.dur.ac.uk/socialjustice/imagine/). The work and its findings demonstrated the value of arts-based activities in promoting inter-generational learning, for example through graffiti art. It demonstrated the value of historical perspectives in re-evaluating the work of community organisations in their neighbourhoods today. It showed the potential for changing the practice of museums in response to community-initiated heritage projects. In Rotherham, the community research team looked at ways of empowering women in local communities by drawing on research that focuses on cultures, histories and identities. The focus was on developing longer-term relationships and legacies which would contribute to community cohesion. The work and its findings demonstrated that existing community knowledge (oral, intergenerational, historical and located in practice) must be recognised and valued. It showed the way in which history matters, for example the history of the Pakistani community and their contributions to British history, for example, the second world war, needs to be recovered and valued. Such processes of recognition and valuing can lead to individual and community enrichment, for example one group of women produced a book about their use herbal remedies, which has been used in school settings and which has led to several of the participants returning to continue their own education. The work stream pointed to the way in which community activism needs to be nurtured from where women are, existing structures are not always easy for women to access and local, small initiatives work best. In Huddersfield, community researchers worked with historians to contributions to historical knowledge and thinking. Arts and humanities co-production linked academic expertise and community experience to produce robust research whereby individuals developed skills for community development. The work and its findings demonstrate that communities are able to articulate their own needs in a variety of outputs and forms, over which they have control. Often academics are already engaged with existing community activities - such as flourishing black history month events - and these partnerships enabled new forms of articulation. The work showed that the continuing underrepresentation of BME people in universities and other power structures can be mediated by coproduction to support skills for engagement. The work demonstrated the way in which co-production can become a dynamic gateway between grassroots activity and larger cultural institutions such as museums and galleries. |
Exploitation Route | We believe our findings are of use to civil servants who have an interest in community participation and civic engagement. We also have found that our findings have value for those wanting to work with universities from charities and third sector organisations. Organisations such as the Big Lottery, the Big Local, DCMS and other arts sector organisations have found our work helpful in thinking through co-production. We consider our articles to be leading the debate about how to do co-production with communities in ethical ways. We have informed the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement on our work. We have also advised RCUK and other funders on how co-production can be ethically constructed within research. We have also made a difference to people's lives - young people have gained in skills and resilience through the 'BoingBoing' network. Community groups have accessed university knowledge and skills. Communities have reclaimed their histories and created major exhibitions which thousands of people have attended. Major partnerships, between museums and galleries and universities, for example, have been set up and major awards won from subsequent collaborations. We have international links across the US, Canada and Australia and these partnerships have disseminated the work more widely. Our headline findings are: " Co-produced research is important. We use the term 'co-production' to describe methodologies that are collaborative, participatory and democratic and which try to access hidden or otherwise absent voices in civic life. Co-producing research has enabled us to develop methodologies that include voices and perspectives that uncover different forms of engagement, whether this be with groups of Muslim women, young people, people with complex needs or diverse groups within community settings. Community research teams are an essential part of this as they are able to set priorities that are important to them. " Funding should be made available for open ended, experimental projects that make use of creative arts and a multiplicity of methodologies to encourage dialectical thinking. This can include groups researching hidden histories, artistic and visual understandings of engagement, including poetry, visual and relational art and approaches that rest on creating spaces for dialogue and communities of practice. Co-production enables new perspectives to be developed that can open up directions that universities might not have considered. " Community development support is essential. Local authorities are cutting back but there needs to be staff supporting community projects and initiatives, regardless of whether or not there is a co-production partner such as a University. " Universities are important resources for communities to research with and from. " Knowledge production practices need to be carefully thought through in relation to how they value community knowledge and ideas. Shared outputs, e.g. books and other artistic products, can capture shared research practices. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Creative Economy Education Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | http://www.imaginecommunity.org.uk |
Description | The findings from this project have been utilised in a number of diverse ways - locally and nationally and internationally, and across a range of different audiences and sectors. Our work has had a strong policy impact. We have briefed the Office for Civil Society at the Cabinet Office, and there have been reported changes in the understanding of co-production, community/university partnerships and how civic engagement can be fostered through co-produced research. Our research has also informed policy thinking at the Race Disparity Unit in the Cabinet Office, where our input was described as 'fundamental to shaping the race disparity audit'. Findings have also been used by the Integration Unit at the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to inform their Empowering Women initiative, where the briefing emphasised the importance of the arts, small-scale initiatives and cross-community initiatives, all of which were present in the final call that was produced. We also briefed the Select Committee on Citizenship and civic engagement in September 2017. The project has directly led to the publication of two books: 'Reimagining Contested Communities' (Policy Press, 2018), which was co-written with the Department of Communities and Local Government, and 'Co-producing Research: a community development approach' (2019). In addition to these published books, over 65 articles have been produced across the consortium. A book launch is to be held for the Reimagining Contested Communities book involving civil servants, in Manchester in May 2018. Our work around resilience has provided the impetus for HeadStart, a £10.4 million Big Lottery Fund grant, which is funded to develop the 'Resilience Revolution' in Blackpool. This involves the expansion of Brighton-based social enterprise Boingboing to Blackpool, where it will extend the resilience-building ideas, practices and products co-developed with young people on the Imagine Project, as well as the provision of workforce training in Resilient Therapy throughout Blackpool. On a local level, we have enabled a number of community partners to become researchers in their own right, thereby moving the locus of research from the academy to the communities themselves. Community researchers have moved on to doctorates, and degrees. This has produced a number of local impacts. For example, two community-led publications 'Threads of Time' and 'Herbal Medicine', which draw upon funds of knowledge in local communities, have been widely used across schools Rotherham, and other community-led resources are available on the BoingBoing website (www.boingboing.org.uk). Various local events have been held throughout the life of project. For example, in June 2017, local government officials and arts workers in Rotherham acknowledged changes in their thinking regarding community knowledge. Local work in the North East and Coventry has led to deeper understandings of 'hope' as an important ingredient in working with communities, as well as arts methods including exhibitions and collaborative artistic activities. A major film on Park Hill is on permanent display at Weston Park Museum in Sheffield. Our work has informed RCUK processes and practices. We provided a case study for the AHRC funded 'Common Cause' project which was concerned with the relationship between universities and BAME organisations. A film was shown to key members of RCUK about this which featured our work and collaborations. Catalyst funding provided a conference aimed at community researchers across a number of RCUK funded projects and participants reported changes in their confidence and ability to present their work to external audiences. We have also informed internal university practices. Our project officer, Angela Warren, trialled a new way of paying community partners easily and quickly at the University of Sheffield and this was reported to a central working group set up by Connected Communities. We presented the 'Imagine' project at the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), and our work has been used within public engagement and civic engagement contexts. Co-production of research has become more widely understood within local, national and international contexts as our work has impacted across policy, practitioner and researcher sectors. An impact case study about our work was published on the ESRC website, and our ethical systems were profiled on the ESRC website. We have informed the direction of further ESRC investments and have been consulted about our work by major funders. In all of the work packages, the university became the catalyst for further initiatives, as a result of the co-production processes initiated by Imagine. Therefore the project has impacted on universities as well as on communities and the wider publics. |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
Description | Expert advisors to: Developing Resilience in Practice: A Health Visiting Framework 2015 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | http://ihv.org.uk/uploads/iHV_Practitioner%20Document_AW%20WEB%2030.04.15.pdf |
Description | Imagine consortium training day |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Impact and Knowledge Exchange event, London, March 2016 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Bond |
Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Sunderland |
Department | Education |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2014 |
End | 02/2015 |
Description | Bullying, school violence and victimization of students with special educational needs, |
Amount | € 10,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | University of Crete |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | Greece |
Start | 07/2013 |
End | 08/2014 |
Description | FP7 |
Amount | € 5,000,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 08/2013 |
End | 08/2015 |
Description | HeadStart |
Amount | £10,000,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Big Lottery Fund |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2016 |
End | 08/2021 |
Title | The Resilience Framework |
Description | The Resilience Framework is based on Resilient Therapy (RT), the name we've given to the set of ideas and practices originally developed by Angie Hart and Derek Blincow, with help from Helen Thomas. We took the resilience research evidence base and put it together with other sets of ideas gleaned from our practice with very disadvantaged children and families in an NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinic. Alongside this, Angie's adoptive parenting knowledge went into the mix and, we've collected experiences from those we are working with in our RT Communities of Practice. We distilled all these different sets of ideas into a handy RT table that summarises our approach and acts as a reminder to people of what's included. Practitioners and parents use the table to plan strategic moves with children. We've also been developing a version of the table for use with adults, and this is where we've got to so far with that, which is still work in progress, the Resilience Framework for adults. All our tables and frameworks are available as pdfs in the Resources section on the boingboing website - it has also been translated into Greek, German, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. |
Type Of Material | Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human |
Year Produced | 2011 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Numerous groups have adopted it and used it in various ways. It has been translated into many different languages and people use it in many countries. See engagmenet sections for more details. |
URL | http://www.boingboing.org.uk/index.php/resilience-in-practice?id=52:what-is-rt&catid=1 |
Title | Systematic consultative review |
Description | this is an approach to conducting literature reviews based on the idea of consultation with practitioners and service users to generate the most appropriate review questions and analyse the results in the most helpful way |
Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | A colleague is carrying out her Phd using the approach. |
URL | https://journals.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/index.php/jcyd/article/view/16 |
Description | Anne Rathbone with Angie Hart - Co produced resilient programme London Borough of Lewisham Health and Social Care Commissioning Team |
Organisation | London Borough of Lewisham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Development of toolkit and training for Commissioners on co planning, designing and commissioning resilience and mental health services for young people |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership work |
Impact | Toolkit. Increased capacity of commissioning team. Pilot model of co produced commissioning cycle of mental health service for young people |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Anne Rathbone with Angie Hart - Co produced resilient programme Southampton City Council |
Organisation | Southampton City Council |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Consultancy to develop an authority wide approach to co produced resilience and mental health strategy and commissioning. Involving young people with direct experience of mental health and complex needs in planning, designing and commissioning services. |
Collaborator Contribution | Consultancy to Chief Executives Department and Integrated Commissioning Team (Local Authority and NHS) |
Impact | Co produced review and redesign of young peoples counselling service. Capacity building of Commissioning and Strategic Planning Team. Toolkit on co production of mental health services with young people for staff |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Art, practice and the imagined future |
Organisation | Site Gallery, Sheffield |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The research team are offering a theoretical focus on utopian theory in contemporary art plus a series of interviews with contemporary artists in Sheffield. |
Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration involves funding two residencies at the Site Gallery in Sheffield. The RA for the project has access to the office space and archive. The residencies included Rory Pilgrim's residency, 'Words are not signs, they are years' which explored utopian language in the city of Sheffield through a collaboration with a sign writer and a group of older radicals. |
Impact | A series of residencies were funded as a result of this activity. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | Cedarwood Trust |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | Meadow Well Connected |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | Patchwork Project, Newcastle |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | Pendower Good Neighbour Project, Newcastle |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | Phoenix Detached Youth Project, North Shields |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | Remembering the Past, Resourcing the Future, North Shields |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | Riverside Community Health Project, Newcastle |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Hospitals |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | SEARCH Newcastle upon Tyne |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | St James' Heritage and Environment Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East Co-inquiry Action Research Group |
Organisation | West Newcastle Picture History Collection |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | This partnership relates to Work Package 2 of the Imagine project in the North East of England. Our research team established this partnership between Durham University and a range of community organisations on Tyneside in order to undertake collaborative research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Each partner is undertaking a specific project and attends regular meetings and conferences linked with the research in the North East of England. |
Impact | We have created a blog with a timeline relating to community development in the areas we are researching. Each partner has undertaken a project with a range of outputs - many of which are ongoing. Multi-disciplinary - community development, youth work, sociology, history, art |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Kirklees Local TV |
Organisation | Kirklees Local TV |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Advice, support & research skills for grass-roots community history-making |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of TV facilities for making short films about co-produced research |
Impact | Film about relations between universities and Africa-descent community groups Kirklees Local TV won a Heritage Lottery Fund Grant to produce a film capturing the personal experiences of people of African-Caribbean descent, linked to my research on Imagine. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Listening Voices, Telling Stories |
Organisation | Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council |
Department | Rotherham Libraries and Cultural Services |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | The Research team have been working with a group of women in Mowbray Gardens Library in Rotherham for over a year to develop a group in which poetry and writing are the focus, with an interest in Imagining different communities and making them happen. |
Collaborator Contribution | The Library provides a warm and welcoming meeting space. |
Impact | Outputs are still on-going, however the blog post on the Storying Sheffield website describes the impact of the project. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Resilience collaboration, Mind Wales |
Organisation | MIND (Mental Health Charity) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Provided training, practice supervision and research support to the Mind team on the use of our resilience framework and associated materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided practice learning and material for future resilience theory and practice development. They have provided match funding for the Imagine project. |
Impact | A joint Cardiff showcase installation Various conference presentations |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | Revisiting the modernist dream: Hepworth Wakefield project |
Organisation | Hepworth Wakefield |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The research team included an historian, an RA and a visual artist together with a team at the Hepworth Wakefield. The project involved archival research plus a project with a group of young people from a rent deposit scheme in Wakefield |
Collaborator Contribution | Support for the project in terms of organisation and facilitation. Exhibition space. |
Impact | An exhibition about the project was displayed in The Hepworth Wakefield |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Revisiting the modernist dream: Park HIll flats project |
Organisation | Museums Sheffield |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The partnership is concerned with a joint project looking at the returning residents of Park Hill Flats. Kim Streets, Chief Executive of Museums Sheffield is on the project team as a collaborator. |
Collaborator Contribution | Research input, access to archive, access to Weston Park museum as a site for the project film. |
Impact | N/a research in progress. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Sussex Recovery College - Building Resilience Course |
Organisation | Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Expertise on resilience and teaching; training of collaborators in collaborative research and on resilience; research design methods and analysis skills. |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators are: 1) Recovery College Peer Trainers who bring expertise from their lived experience of mental health problems and training in the Recovery College educational approach. 2) Mental health occupational therapists who bring their practice related skills and expertise |
Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving: 1) Recovery College Peer Trainers (people with lived experience of mental health problems and training in the Recovery College educative approach to responding to mental health problems) 2) Mental health professionals 3) Academics with expertise in resilience and research methods. Outputs/Outcomes (using short titles from other sections): 2015: Building Resilience for Adults with Mental Health Problems (Conference Presentation, Canada) 2015: Building Mental Health Resilience Recovery College Course |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Sussex Recovery College - Building Resilience Course |
Organisation | Sussex Recovery College |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise on resilience and teaching; training of collaborators in collaborative research and on resilience; research design methods and analysis skills. |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators are: 1) Recovery College Peer Trainers who bring expertise from their lived experience of mental health problems and training in the Recovery College educational approach. 2) Mental health occupational therapists who bring their practice related skills and expertise |
Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving: 1) Recovery College Peer Trainers (people with lived experience of mental health problems and training in the Recovery College educative approach to responding to mental health problems) 2) Mental health professionals 3) Academics with expertise in resilience and research methods. Outputs/Outcomes (using short titles from other sections): 2015: Building Resilience for Adults with Mental Health Problems (Conference Presentation, Canada) 2015: Building Mental Health Resilience Recovery College Course |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | The Academic Resilience Approach |
Organisation | YoungMinds |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Undertook desk research, wrote copy and provided examples and a resilience framework based on years of research to develop a micosite hosted by YoungMinds which supports school communities to help boost children's resilience. |
Collaborator Contribution | Technical support and hosting the website |
Impact | Many training opportunities, talks, liaison with government etc. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Writing in the Community |
Organisation | Rotherham Youth Services |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The research team are working with Clifton Partnership together with youth workers from Rotherham Youth Service to develop a project in which young people Imagine better communities through art work and storying. |
Collaborator Contribution | The youth service are hosting sessions with young people. An AHRC Utopia Festival Grant enabled a poetry writing workshop with Poet Helen Mort to be conducted and a book 'Threads of Time' was created as a result of the workshop. This was given to many external stakeholders in Rotherham and to DCLG. The partner organisation, Clifton Partnership, hosted a lunch event with members of the social cohesion team from Rotherham MBC present. |
Impact | Outputs include launch event in Rotherham with members of the social cohesion team, together with further events at the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield in September and in Rotherham Libraries in February. Copies of the book have gone to DCLG, Rotherham MBC, Rotherham Libraries and Rotherham Cultural Services. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | 2 x 90 minute online presentations to Senior leaders from FE colleges within Southern Universities Network to inform of the Resilience Approach and engage in a co-produced project with students from the Colleges to build resilience through improving Induction processes. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Initial Introduction event delivered Dec 2021 to senior staff from 5 FE colleges across the Southern Universities Network and a follow up presentation in January 2022 to 2 FE Colleges and 1 Virtual School. Questions and discussion which led to increased interest in reviewing current induction processes. The pilot project will work with students and staff from the 3 institutions to co-produce/consultation some suggestions for an improved induction process - building resilience in the students and a resilient college. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
Description | Academic Resilience Microsite (as part of YoungMinds website) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | An Academic Resilience microsite was developed and is hosted on the YounMinds website. This website has a large number of visitors and there has been a considerable amount of feedback from people who have found the information and resources on the Academic Resilience microsite to be of use to them. Various local authorities have taken up the academic resilience approach. There may also be other impacts of which I am not aware. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
URL | http://www.youngminds.org.uk/training_services/academic_resilience |
Description | Black History Month talk: The co-production of black British history |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk led to plans to develop on-going network on black British history Excellent feedback via Twitter see #WHBBH |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://t.co/Jjy2OzcgUi |
Description | Boingboing Twitter Account |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Boingboing Twitter account was set up in 2012 to inform people about resilience related news and to inform people about the work that Boingboing Social Enterprise and the University of Brighton are involved in. The account now has nearly 5,000 followers with people from around the world following the work that we do. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016 |
URL | https://twitter.com/bb_resilience |
Description | Boingboing website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The boingboing website was set up in 2010 to provide people with opportunities to learn about resilience. The website enables people to download a large number of free resources including the 'Resilience Framework', 'Mental Health and the Resilient Therapy Toolkit', 'Visual Arts Practice for Resilience' guide, 'Kinship Carers' Resource' and 'One Step Forward' book (a visual guide to resilience produced by young people from the Brighton & Hove Virtual School for Children in Care). The website also provides considerable information on the projects that staff and volunteers from boingboing are working on. Since it was set up, the website has received more than 270,000 hits and it attracts visitors from around the world. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016 |
URL | http://www.boingboing.org.uk/ |
Description | Breakout session at the Connected Communities Festival in Cardiff |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The session described the 'Imagine' project and asked people to think about outputs and whether they were 'interesting and usefl'. We have made a series of Youtube videos looking at academic outputs from a community partner perspective, for example 'Impact' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcjIEuuEikM&feature=youtu.be |
Description | Building Stronger Communities Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This was a 20 minute presentation by Kate Pahl to the Building Stronger Communities Forum in Rotherham followed by a discussion on the learning points from the project. The BSC Forum is chaired by the Leader of Rotherham Borough Council and oversees the strategy and key programmes for cohesion in the borough. Other members of the Forum include: the Cabinet Members with portfolios for community safety and community cohesion, the Chief Executive of Rotherham Borough Council and representatives of voluntary, faith leaders and BME groups. Attendees at the meeting were: RMBC Councillors Cllr Chris Read (Chair) Leader Cllr Emma Hoddinott, Cabinet Member for Waste, Roads and Community Safety Cllr Sarah Allen, Cabinet Member for Cleaner, Greener Communities Partners Steve Chapman, Operations Superintendent, South Yorkshire Police Janet Wheatley, Chief Executive, Voluntary Action Rotherham RMBC Officers Tom Smith, Assistant Director - Community Safety and Street Scene Sam Barstow, Head of Community Safety, Resilience and Emergency Planning Shokat Lal, Assistant Chief Executive Jackie Mould, Head of Performance, Intelligence and Improvement Miles Crompton, Policy and Partnership Officer Waheed Akhtar, VCS Liaison Officer Ian Stubbs, Community Engagement Co-ordinator Alice Godfrey, Project Support Assistant Waheed Akhtar, Voluntary Sector Liaison Officer in Rotherham Council, has also stated that learning from the project will be taken into account when a review of cohesion is undertaken by Rotherham Council. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Can We Afford to Ignore Community Resilience? (London, England) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at The Young Foundation panel event in collaboration with Newham Council, London. Further requests for information were received after this event. Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Changing with the Times: Promoting Meaningful Collaboration Between Universities and Community Partners (CU Expo 2013, Canada) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Academics learnt about community university partnership approaches and how to apply them to their own work. Requests for further information were received after the event. There may also be other impacts of which I am not aware. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Co-production: process and practices of research without a map. Talk to the Faculty of Social Science Research conference, Sheffield |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The talk created a lively discussion about the nature of co-production. A workshop was planned to come from this event, to take place in January together with an article. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Consultation by Public Health, Wales |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Following an appearance on BBC radio 4, we were contacted by Public Health Wales, who managed to secure some money from their soon to be developed Violence Prevention Unit to kick off the work that was submitted to the All Wales Serious Violence Group. They came to consult about how to support work that would be using arts-based methods with young people. They came to meet Professor Pahl at Manchester Metropolitan, who advised on the design of a small-scale project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Delivery of 1 day bespoke online training for colleagues in 2 newly created Mental Health Support Teams in Schools in Blackpool and The Fylde and Wyre - Introduction to Resilient Therapy and Academic Resilience Approach for Schools. 29/11/2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 7 qualified Mental Health Practitioners in newly created Mental Health Support Teams in Schools received 1 day introduction to Resilient Therapy and the Academic Resilience Approach in Schools. Practitioners reported greater interest in Resilience and resources/ government policies and guidance currently available for schools to support mental health and wellbeing for pupils and staff in schools. One Team have since requested a further session with additional Team members to support them in their role working with students, staff and families. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Delivery of 90 minute online co-produced workshop - Introduction to Resilient Therapy and the Resilience Framework to staff from Blackpool & The Fylde College Staff Development day 11 February 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Co-plannned and co-delivered session with 2 members of staff from the college. Session was an Introduction to the Resilience Approach and Resilience Framework to approx 30 staff. Staff reported an increased interest in the subject and would like to be part of steering group going forward to audit current curriculum provision and student support services to build resilience in both staff and students across the college. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Delivery of 90 minute online inservice training for Teaching staff (INSET) at Alderwasley Hall School - Introduction to Resilience 03/09/2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Staff workshop for 130 members of staff from the school - Introduction to Resilient Therapy, Resilience Framework and practical strategies for building resilience. School planned to embed Resilience Approach across the school and use the Resilient Classroom in tutor group sessions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Delivery of presentation and workshop for Social Workers on practitioner resilience - Newham Children and Young People's Service x 2 events |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Two half day conferences comprising of presentation and workshop on practitioner resilience. Aimed to increase capacity of social workers to cope and thrive despite the stresses and demands of their work. In excess of 280 social workers attended and high level of satisfaction and increased knowledge and strategies to develop resilience in their work was reported in feedback |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Developing research through community engagement (public event) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The talk was filmed and there was a discussion afterwards. Further interest from the Dean of Community Engagement, Monash University, in the Imagine project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Doing Resilience: Researching Resilient Moves and Practices (the British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2013: "Engaging sociology", London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Academics learnt about resilience and how to apply the theory to their own work. Requests for further information were received after the event. There may also be other impacts of which I am not aware. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/50981/AC2013_Full_Prog_Web2.pdf?1415511882499 |
Description | Edith Cowan University and partners - great things going on there! Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The blog was written to discuss the community university partnership work that Edith Cowan university in Perth is undertaking. From the meetings that the blog was based on, further work with partners from the Edith Cowan University is planned. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.boingboing.org.uk/index.php/our-blog/149-edith-cowan |
Description | Engagement with learning disabled people to evaluate co produced resilience education game |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Play and evaluation sessions with young adults with learning disabilities and their parents/carers to evaluate the Suns and Clouds game, co produced by people with learning disabilities as part of the Imagine Project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | Engaging Voices, Stories of Change: Mobilizing Community University Partnerships and Informing National Agendas for Change (CU Expo 2013, Canada) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Academics learnt about community university partnership approaches and how to apply them to their own work. Requests for further information were received after the event. There may also be other impacts of which I am not aware. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Event for young people on the Imagine project at The Hepworth Wakefield |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | The meeting was between a number of different young people from different aspects of Imagine, including 'Boing Boing' (WP1) and 'Writing in the Community (WP3) as well as the project ongoing at The Hepworth Wakefield. Young people came and shared their work on the imagine project and also were able to share experiences and ideas with the other groups. The sharing that took place enabled the young people to find out more about Imagine and what was going on across the country. The young people from Rotherham said it was the best day out they had ever had. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was an exhibition drawing on the intergenerational stories of women generated during the project. It was held at Wentworth House in Rotherham, and will then move to Clifton Park Museum. It also generated activity packs for schools. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.socialartlibrary.org/library/to-change-75ntb-ffjbj-efcje |
Description | Imagine 'What's a good research question?' event (Connected Communities Programme Summit and Showcase, Edinburgh) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Participants learnt about how to construct a good research question. The presentation led to numerous questions from the audience. Requests for further information via email were received after the event. Since I haven't followed this up myself, there may also be other impacts of which I am not aware |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | https://connected-communities.org/index.php/news/second-connected-communities-showcase-edinburgh-4-j... |
Description | Imagine 1st Annual Dissemination event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 74 people attended this event, including 31 community partners & 2 international visitors who acted as plenary speakers and experts in the field of communities of practice. Paper on storytelling with community partners and resident artist allowed discussion and sharing ideas with others. Questions asked about future project activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Imagine North East timeline |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This timeline aims to document the diverse histories of Benwell and North Shields. This includes documentation of key social, cultural, economic, political, community activist and geographical events that have shaped the landscapes and lives of Benwell and North Shields. The timeline is ongoing, we aim to add to this timeline over the course of the Imagine North East project and we encourage those who live or have lived in Benwell or North Shields to contribute documents, thoughts, memories and comments. The timeline has gained interest and people who live or have lived (including members of organisations and groups) in Benwell and North Shields have been contributing films they have made, been involved in or have made, documents, thoughts, ideas, memories and comments. The timeline has gained interest, people who live or have lived (including members of organisations and groups) in Benwell and North Shields have been contributing films they have made, been involved in or have made, documents, thoughts, ideas, memories and comments. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.imaginenortheast.org/timeline/ |
Description | Imagine Threads of Time Poetry group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The team were awarded £4,960 by the AHRC Connected Communities Festival 2016 and held an event at Erskine Road Community Centre, Rotherham, on 1st June 2016. The event was attended by 25 people; including 5 senior officials from rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) and the girls involved in the poetry writing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Imagine Writing Awayday - Re-Imagining Rotherham book |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | This day included an artist, a number of community co-researchers, participants in the research and academics. In the day, we pooled our understanding of what writing a book might entail, planned out the book and shared possible writing for inclusion in a book proposal which is to go to Policy Press in the Autumn. A draft plan for the book was constructed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Imagine social presnetation to Imagine policy event London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Cameron J, Henderson S, Patmore L, Eryigit-Madzwamuse S, Hart A, Rathbone A (2016) Co-producing resilient communities in diverse settings: Insights from the Imagine-Social project [Invited oral presentation] Imagine Research Project Workshop for Policymakers and Influencers: Empowering communities and Making Change happen: meet the people who matter and connect with community development research, National Council for Voluntary Organisations, London, 9th March 2016. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Imagine2 Launch Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | The launch brought everyone involved in Imagine2 together and they learnt more about the project as a whole. Everyone involved shared and explored ideas. Displays of posters, banners, leaflets and booklets from the community organisations involved were viewed by everyone at the launch which helped disseminate information and people gained an understanding of each others work. Presentations and discussion sessions encouraged discourse, feedback and the generation of new ideas and themes to explore further. Three workshops were carried out by organisations involved in the project that gave people a taster of the work they carry out and further information and resources. The Community Radio Workshop - the aim to help Imagine residents and partners understand how they might be able to work with the two community radio stations broadcasting in Newcastle. The groups involved in the session saw that involving themselves as broadcasters would promote their project and provide the community radio station with content. Further development might involve joint funding bids on shared interests. Still Listening Workshop - looked at oral history, really helpful for people researching/archiving local history and people that carry out oral history recording as part of the Imagine2 project. Information incl. good practice in interview techniques, recording equipment, editing software. Still Moving Workshop - West Newcastle Picture History Collection and St James Heritage and Environment group. The session provided a taster of their work: collecting and making available to the local community and wider public old photographs and film material relevant to the west end of Newcastle, and using photography and film to document and explore the history of the area. Useful for anyone involved in the Imagine2 project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/beacon/socialjustice/imagine/ |
Description | Introducing Participedia event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Around 50 academics and practitioners attended. Our team attended to increase the understanding and sharing of knowledge surrounding the use of open-source data collection platforms. Unknown. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Invited Keynote to Regional CPD event. Resilience and Public Health. Cameron J 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A keynote on Resilience and Public Health was delivered by Josh Cameron at a regional CPD event in Brighton. The keynote generated questions and discussion. Contributed to help public health professional consider some of their new roles in the policy context. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Invited keynote: Resilience (9th Annual Conference for Families, Friends and Carers of Substance Users - Silient Voices, Brighton) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participants learnt about resilience and how to apply it to their own context. People applied the resilience theory to their own area. I was asked to provide further support to people from the conference and I was also asked to give other keynote lectures at other conferences for different audiences. The organisation applied our model to their work. There may also be other impacts of which I am not aware. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Invited lecture on uniting resilience research with social justice issues at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland by W Kassis |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Audience asked further questions about how to develop and reach resilience tools. after this talk, the audience developed further ideas about how to search and reach resilience tools |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Invited lecture: Interventions to enhance the resilience of children (ANZEA meeting, Christchurch, New Zealand) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | My lecture encouraged numerous questions throughout its duration and I had several discussions with people afterwards about how they could apply some of the techniques I talked about in their roles. Requests for further information via email. Since I haven't followed this up myself, there may also be other impacts of which I am not aware |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.anzea.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014ANGIEHARTMarch13.pdf |
Description | Invited paper presentation: Constructing a resilient community of practice across the Connected Communities Programme DE2013: Open Digital. (Salford, England) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation delivered on 'Constructing a resilient community of practice across the Connected Communities Programme: online connection of researchers' at the Digital Economy 2013 All Hands meeting, Connected Communities workshop. The presentation triggered discussion and sharing of collaborative digital methodologies. 2 researchers have drawn on the work to develop proposals for funded research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | https://connected-communities.org/index.php/news/digital-economy-2013-all-hands-meeting-connected-co... |
Description | Invited presentation: The added value for philanthropic organisations in engaging with universities (ASB Community Trust, Auckland, New Zealand) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | As a result of my invited presentation, the audience improved their understanding of how to work more effectively with universities and the value of university engagement. The main impact of the presentation was that the ASB Community Trust said that they were going to approach universities to work with them in the future when they hadn't considered this before. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Invited round table discussion: How to establish and sustain partnerships that generate innovative, rigorous and socially relevant research (University of Melbourne, Australia) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Invited round table discussion: 'How to establish and sustain partnerships that generate innovative, rigorous and socially relevant research' at the University of Melbourne, Australia with 20 senior managers. This resulted in members of the University of Melbourne thinking about how they can improve their partnerships in the future, and planning specific outcomes as a result of the activity. I was asked to provide expert advice on professorial appointments for the university in relation to community university partnership working Community of practice for community university partnership meetings established at UOM |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Invited seminar: Communities of practice for community university partnerships: Lessons from the resilience field. (University of Stirling, Scotland) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Over 50 people attended this seminar at the School of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, Scotland on the 4th April 2014. The audience included social workers and academics. The seminar prompted discussions about developing communities of practice and applying resilience theory to their roles. There has been a subsequent research project with colleagues from the University of Stirling on using the communities of practice approach. Several email requests for further information have also been received after the event. There may also be other impacts of which I am not aware. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://listenagain.stir.ac.uk/media/keep/withscotland/listenagain.php |
Description | Invited seminar: Interventions to enhance the resilience of children (Healthy Christchurch group, Christchurch, New Zealand) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Colleagues were able to understand the work we do and how to apply it to their own work. Requests for further information were received after the conference presentation. Since I haven't followed this up myself, there may also be other impacts of which I am not aware |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.healthychristchurch.org.nz/news/healthy-christchurch-notices/2014/3/healthy-christchurch-... |
Description | Invited seminar: Resilience-based practice: Promising directions for research (and the not so promising) (Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Cardiff University) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited seminar for staff and students at the Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Cardiff University, Wales. The seminar stimulated discussion and questions. Hart's talk was the first talk in that seminar series to attract any colleagues and service users from outside the university to a seminar. It was well-attended by academics and practitioners. It led to subsequent application of our work in the Cardiff area and some ongoing practice development projects with Cardiff Mind. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Invited training: Resilience training development workshop (for YoungMinds charity, Brighton) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Participants learnt about resilience and the resilience framework and how to apply this to their own work. The training session led to questions and discussions about resilience. YoungMinds have adopted the resilience framework as the main feature of the training packages that they provide. YoungMinds have implemented a resilience based approach across the board in their organisation. I have been commissioned to develop the Academic Resilience micro-site for the YoungMinds website (see http://www.youngminds.org.uk/training_services/academic_resilience) I was invited to be involved in another successful bid to provide support to local communities involved in the Big |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.youngminds.org.uk/training_services/academic_resilience/what_is_academic_resilience/acade... |
Description | Mindmate, Academic Resilience in Schools, Leeds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Academic resilience workshop, really well received and debates sparked. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | NCRM ESRC Research Methods Festival - Presentation by G Smith |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation by Graham Smith reported on Workpackage 4 (Participedia) project, titled: Lessons for social research from participatory decision making. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/video/RMF2014/filmed.php?id=ab53003 |
Description | NCRM ESRC Research Methods Festival - Presentation by J Ellis & G Crow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In this session a presentation titled: Democratisation in theory and (one example of) practice by Dr Jaimie Ellis and Professor Graham Crow attracted over 100 delegates, reported on the Imagine workpackage 4 project on interesting and useful research, on 10th July 2014. The presentation was captured on film. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/video/RMF2014/filmed.php?id=4746377 |
Description | Oz and New Zealand community university partnerships - hot stuff! Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The blog was written to communicate the work that Angie Hart undertook on her 'Engagement Australia' tour and community university partnership meetings in New Zealand. The blog talked about the work that the University of Brighton is undertaking with regards to Community University Partnerships. The blog led to further requests for information about the work that the University of Brighton does along with questions about how this compares with the work being done in Australia and New Zealand. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.boingboing.org.uk/index.php/our-blog/18-oz-new-zealand |
Description | Paper at three day symposium on social justice in Leicester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussion about the role of arts practice in CC projects. Led to an invitation to write a book chapter for a book on the Connected Communities programme and policy. Also informed the 'Co-producing Legacy' project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Paper on Park Hill and its history given for the Imagine conference in Durham. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The talk sparked discussion about the project. Further interest in Park Hill by people across the project consortium. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Paper on Participedia presented at Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzado (IESA), Cordoba |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk led to range of questions and discussion around how to crowdsource data on community initiatives - especially in relation to data quality and mobilisation/engagement strategies. Researchers likely to add their data on community engagement to Participedia site. Potential for ISEA director to become Executive Board member. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Paper on the history of women's activism in Rotherham given at the Durham 'Imagine' conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The talk prompted a discussion about activism. After this talk and drawing on previous collaborations beforehand, to respond to a community crisis, a further funding bid was applied for under the ESRC rapid response scheme about the impact of the Jay report on community relations in Rotherham. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Poster presentation: Building resilience through group visual arts activities (British Red Cross Resilience Conference 2013, London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | People who read the poster learnt how resilience could be built through visual arts activities. Questions were asked about the arts activities and how the activities were set up and managed. Requests for further information were received after the event. There may also be other impacts of which I am not aware. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Poster presentation: Resilience focused communities of practice (British Red Cross Resilience Conference, London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | People were informed about the communities of practice approach in relation to resilience and the work that we have conducted. Since I haven't followed this up myself, there may be impacts of which I am not aware. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Presentation on Resilience and Inequalities - London School of Economics International Inequalities Conference June 17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation on an inequalities approach to resilience at the London School of Economics International Inequalities Conference. Was highest rated session in feedback, with participants reporting change in attitude to resilience and greater awareness of value of co produced research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Resilience: an important concept for occupational therapists? College of Occupational Therapists, 2014 Conference Workshop,Cameron J |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Seminar/workshops led to discussions during and after sessions and follow up contacts with queries from occupational therapists wanting to learn more about resilience. Increased follow up contacts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://cotannualconference.org.uk/images/documents/2014-programme-0205.pdf |
Description | Somerset House, Designing Resilience Showcase |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A showcase promoting all the designing resilience resources was held as part of a wider imagining different communities event last year. This event was successful in promoting the resources and networking with new services and individuals. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Tinkering with practices of resilience: Exploring how practice theory can help tackle inequalities in health (RCN International Nursing Research Conference and Exhibition 2014, Glasgow, Scotland) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Colleagues were able to understand the work we do and how to apply it to their own work. Requests for further information were received after the conference presentation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Training session: Resilience Programmes - the pros and cons of specific approaches for schools (University of Brighton, Brighton) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 20 professional practitioners attended this training day and they learnt about the academic resilience approach and how to apply this to their practice. There was considerable discussion in the group with the practitioners who had started to apply this approach in their schools and knowledge was shared. Following on from this training day I was asked to give a seminar at the Growth Mindset and Academic Resilience Network meeting a few months later and also had subsequent requests to provide training and talks at future events. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Upward Bound Training: to raise awareness and understanding of resilience |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Good discussion afterwards Greater confidence for workers in applying ideas and principles Thank you I liked the lecture very much It was good to go back to the basics The session was inspiring. Very positive and good learning experience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Using a communities of practice approach to co-research and to build young people's resilience (RCN International Nursing Research Conference and Exhibition 2014, Glasgow, Scotland) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Colleagues were able to understand the work we do and how to apply it to their own work. Requests for further information were received after the conference presentation. Since I haven't followed this up myself, there may also be other impacts of which I am not aware |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/568914/2014_RCN_research_1.1.1.pdf |
Description | Utopia and the City: imagining futures through a co-production of thought and practice paper for the Royal Geographical Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The focus of the discussion was on Co-production and future ideas. This led to the writing of an abstract for the Sheffield social science faculty conference and also the writing of a paper on Co-production: processes and practices of research without a map, which is still in progress. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/26CC0F19-23E0-43A3-B68D-9B74D5D5E368/0/AC2014_ProgBook_FINAL_Lowres.... |
Description | Utopia conference (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Hall Y, Pahl K, Cameron J, Neale P, Brooker S (2016) Belonging Maps. [Oral Presentation] Utopia and Connected Communities conference, British Library, London, 7 December 2016. This was a presentation which stimulated debate and shared knowledge and experience of using recovery college approaches to connect communities and build resilience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/utopia-and-connected-communities-a-one-day-conference-tickets-2868164... |
Description | Voices from the inside: A resilient and inclusive psychosocial framework to approach young people with social and emotional school difficulties and antisocial pathways (Discourse Power Resistance: DPR13 Conference, University of Greenwich, London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Colleagues were able to understand the work we do and how to apply it to their own work. After this conference there were further successful grant applications with colleagues from Greece. It also led to a journal article submission. There may also be other impacts of which I am not aware of. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Working resiliently with young people in complex circumstances: what can a systematic consultative review tell us? (British Red Cross Resilience Conference 2013, London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participants learnt about our work and how they could apply it to their own context. Requests for further information were received after the event. There may also be other impacts of which I am not aware. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Workshop delivery to Targeted Youth Support Workers on nurturing emotional well being and building resilience. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | training sparked further interest and discussion and more confidence in applying resilience ideas and principles in practice Strong range of theory presented in accessible way Lots of opportunity to reflect on theory in relation to own practice Very informative- new theories as well as re-visiting older ones Gave me a little positive kick in the right direction! Pleased I made the time to come along Really enjoyed it- good group and very interesting Informative and enjoyable Nine Youth Workers engaged Workers reported a change in view, attitudes and behaviour. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Workshop delivery to vulnerable young people. A resilience based intervention, covering core self, learning, belonging and coping mechanisms in support of their resilience (Hastings, England) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Vulnerable young people learnt about the concept of resilience Young people engaged in an informal educational programme, building their capacity, and increasing their aspirations. I feel more confident in myself I will approach things differently now Supportive I can cope better now |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
Description | Workshop on 'Not Just an Object': Making meaning of and from everyday objects in educational research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was an International Research Symposium and Exhibition aimed at educational practitioners working at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa including those working directly with teachers in a number of communities including the Eastern Cape area, the province of KwaZulu Natal and other areas including post graduate students and teachers. It aimed to encourage people in the workshop to think about co-production, and drew on the 'Every object tells a story' methodology as well as research from the Imagine project, the Artists Legacy project and Language as Talisman. Questions included the nature of research evidence and an interest in co-production and the emerging findings of Imagine as re-positioning Knowledge in the context of community co-produced research. From this came a huge interest in object based work and work that drew on community funds of knowledge. A plan is being made to create a new research proposal which would attempt another Truth and Reconciliation project for South African educators drawing on these new research ideas, and co-production as a methodology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://coh.ukzn.ac.za/Files/Media/Documents/Announcement%20Documents/International%20Research%20Symp... |
Description | Workshop on school violence resilience at Innovative Ideas, Comparative Perspectives Bergische University Wuppertal/Germany by W Kassis |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The presentation stimulated further discussion about potential collaboration. initiated ideas about to develop an international research project in relation to resilience building in school settings |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |