Hello everyone
Please find attached some rough 'minutes' from the meeting(s) held in Durham
last week. As you'll see, under severe pressure from Lorraine at the
RGS-IBG (!!) we changed our acronym, were compelled to undertake some form
of election for the positions of 'chair', treasurer and secretary in order
to become official and recognised (and get some cash, leading to a headlong
rush for power with the group deciding to 'elect' from within, thus setting
the scene for much 'participatory' work to come....), and sold our soul to
Satan.
However, fear not, this is an interim measure, and proper elections will be
held at our first AGM at the IBG. Please read these notes through as they
detail a few things we should all know about, a few suggested
events/ventures/engagements, and a few potential routes of action. We need
discussion around all these elements, and any suggestions of new things to
do (preferably via the new mailing list), so get subsribed and fill your
mailboxes in whatever fashion with yet more interesting stuff. We will be
forwarding notice of this new venture willy nilly very soon.
Please also take a look at the brief 'blurb' we are intending sending to a
few learned journals, and the abstract for the IBG time we have been granted
in September, and chat away/make suggestions, take bulls by horns etc.
Cheers for now
Duncan
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Dr Duncan Fuller
Division of Geography
Lipman Building
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
Direct Tel - 0191 2273753
Fax - 0191 2274715
Divisional Office - 0191 2273428
PEANuT (Participatory Evaluation and Appraisal in Newcastle upon Tyne) -
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/peanut
Mapping Tranquillity -
http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/map_tran
quil/?view=Standard
Exploring solutions to 'graffiti' in Newcastle upon Tyne -
http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/graffiti
/
'Local to me': Advancing Financial Inclusion in Newcastle upon Tyne -
http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/local/?v
iew=Standard
Geo-publishing.org - http://www.may.ie/nirsa/geo-pub/geo-pub.html
Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Making a Difference Beyond the Academy?
http://www.praxis-epress.org/availablebooks/radicaltheorycriticalpraxis.html
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