With thanks to Nettes Derbyshire, Debra Gordon, Clare Harewood, Chantal Jackson, Jean-Claude Kabuiku, Toqueer Ahmed Quyyam, Marianne Walker and BVSC Research Over the summer of 2025 CUWb academics and community researchers were involved in two community festivals – the Neighbourhood Futures Festival which we co-host with Birmingham Settlement annually at their Nature and Wellbeing Centre, … Continue reading “Listening to public perspectives on urban wellbeing”
Month: October 2025
Community Research handbook published
Earlier in the year and throughout 2024 the Centre for Urban Wellbeing and Birmingham Voluntary Services Council (BVSC) Research to co-produce a guide for researchers to work in a values-led and inclusive way with community research. We hope that you find this a recipe for great research! It advances a values-led and inclusive approach to … Continue reading “Community Research handbook published”
Visiting Fellow, Johannes Melchert, University of Heidelberg reports on 6 months at the Centre for Urban Wellbeing
It’s hard to believe it’s almost been a year since I embarked on my Marietta Blau-Grant fellowship journey, funded by the OeAD (Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research). As I look back, I realize that when I first started this adventure in October 2024, with an end date set for September 2025, … Continue reading “Visiting Fellow, Johannes Melchert, University of Heidelberg reports on 6 months at the Centre for Urban Wellbeing”