About Me How do we make a positive difference to big environmental challenges like the climate crisis within the specific communities where we live and work together? Broadly speaking, this is the question I’ve been grappling with for 20+ years through a wide range of voluntary projects and more recently as an academic, currently working … Continue reading “Meet LPIP Place Fellow Andrew Reeves: Focussed on Civic Universities and Place-Based Climate Action”
We Are Guests – Part Two
LPIP Hub Place Fellow Helen O’Gara continues her series on the felt experiences of the community development workforce, ‘We Are Guests’. This second blog explores the emotional experiences involved in working with communities. Other blog in the series: We Are Guests – Part One As I talked with four people, from different parts of the … Continue reading “We Are Guests – Part Two”
We Are Guests – Part One
As part of her Place Fellowship, Helen O’Gara presents a series of blogs exploring the felt experiences of community development professionals. Helen has spent time interviewing four community development practitioners across different parts of the UK who have been in the same place for between 19 and 50 years. The resulting series explores some of the themes, … Continue reading “We Are Guests – Part One”
What Needs To Happen To Make the Civic University Work? Learnings From Queens Communities and Place (QCAP) Belfast
Professor Kathryn Higgins and Dr Andrew Grounds show how QCAP demonstrates that effective civic engagement requires long-term institutional investment and system-level change in funding and incentives. Universities across the UK are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their civic role. Place-based partnerships, community engagement strategies and social value promises feature prominently in institutional strategies, and while … Continue reading “What Needs To Happen To Make the Civic University Work? Learnings From Queens Communities and Place (QCAP) Belfast”
From National Sectors to Local Strengths: Does Burnham’s Vision Rewrite Industrial Strategy?
Rebecca Riley analyses the likely next Prime Minister’s flagship speech through the lens of City-REDI and the LPIP Hub’s research, looking specifically at plans for industrial strategy. We take a look at Andy Burnham’s plans for devolution in this blog. Burnham’s speech implicitly raises a question that has been simmering in industrial strategy circles since … Continue reading “From National Sectors to Local Strengths: Does Burnham’s Vision Rewrite Industrial Strategy?”
Andy Burnham’s Devolution Vision: What Does the Evidence Say?
Rebecca Riley analyses the likely next Prime Minister’s flagship speech through the lens of City-REDI and the LPIP Hub’s research. We take a look at Burnham’s plans for the industrial strategy in this blog. Today, Andy Burnham delivered his first major policy speech since launching his bid for the Labour leadership, and, in all likelihood, … Continue reading “Andy Burnham’s Devolution Vision: What Does the Evidence Say?”
Putting Communities at the Heart of Place-Based Change: Launching the Communities in their Places Evidence Review
We are pleased to launch the LPIP Hub’s latest evidence review, Communities in their Places, which brings together academic and policy evidence on the role of communities in shaping economic, social and environmental outcomes across the UK. This review provides a timely ‘state-of-play’ on how communities interact with place-based policy, and offers insights to support … Continue reading “Putting Communities at the Heart of Place-Based Change: Launching the Communities in their Places Evidence Review”
Placecast Episode 18: Community-Driven Economic Growth in Wales
In Episode 18 of Placecast, Nicola Headlam interviews Professor Calvin Jones, a LPIP Hub Place Fellow working on sustainability and regional economics in Wales. The discussion explores how devolved governance in Wales is evolving, particularly in areas such as fiscal powers, wellbeing policy, and green transition. Cavlin argues that traditional growth-led economic models are failing … Continue reading “Placecast Episode 18: Community-Driven Economic Growth in Wales”
Green and Pleasant Land? Rural Resilience in the Welsh Marches
Rural areas face a set of urgent and existential challenges. These will bite hard along the ancient boundary between Wales and England. “The bourgeoisie has subjected the countryside to the domination of city. It has built enormous cities; it has greatly increased the urban population relative to the rural, and has thus wrested a considerable … Continue reading “Green and Pleasant Land? Rural Resilience in the Welsh Marches”
Placecast Episode 17: Trust and Place-Based Innovation
In this episode of Placecast, presenter Dr Gerardo Javier Arriaga-Garcia is joined by Nina Ruddle and Sophie Cloutterbuck to explore what really enables innovation to take root in places as different as North Wales and London. Together, they argue that successful place-based development is not driven primarily by infrastructure or investment, but by relationships, trust … Continue reading “Placecast Episode 17: Trust and Place-Based Innovation”