Join LPIP Hub Place Fellow Helen O’Gara as she finishes her blog series ‘We Are Guests’, exploring the felt experience of the community development workforce. This final blog brings knowledge mobilisation into focus and asks what policy creation and implementation should look like. View the other blogs in the series. What should it look like? … Continue reading “We Are Guest – Part Five”
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We Are Guests – Part Four
This is the fourth blog in the series ‘We Are Guests’, by LPIP Hub Place Fellow Helen O’Gara. Helen looks at the interaction of policy with the community development workforce based on interviews with four community development professionals. View the other blogs in the series. What is policy? “It’s a messy space, but I sometimes … Continue reading “We Are Guests – Part Four”
We Are Guests – Part Three
LPIP Hub Place Fellow Helen O’Gara’s series ‘We Are Guests’ continues with a third blog exploring the community infrastructure and experiences of funding felt by the community development workforce. View the other blogs in the series. “I think what you need is a common something that you can work together on” “They’re almost a … Continue reading “We Are Guests – Part Three”
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”