Dear Gareth,
I would be interested in attending but I'm not sure I fit your remit - I am a clinical psychologist working in the NHS in Lewisham. I have a PhD and a DClinPsy and an interest in community psychology, but I'm not employed as an academic. If you get 'genuine' community psychologists wanting to attend then I guess you'd prefer them!
Thanks
Naomi
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>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:02:40 +0100
>From: Gareth Potts <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: calling community psychologsts in/around London - interesting day event
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Dear All
>
> My researchers have struggled to identify community
> psychologists in and around London Universities - so
> I am contacting the mail-base. Below is the message
> I am sending out to those people that I have been
> able to identify - CP is the only discipline where I
> have drawn a blank for some bizarre reason. You
> don't have to be from London but our travel budget
> is limited.
>
> Best Wishes, Gareth
>
>
>
> Dear
>
> I would like to invite you to participate in a day
> event that the British Urban Regeneration
> Association (BURA) is running on September 27th in
> Lewisham. BURA has looked to find academics in and
> around London universities from a wide variety of
> disciplines - those that often deal with urban
> regeneration/development and those from disciplines
> that traditionally have little/nothing to do with
> such issues. You would be representing Community
> Psychology.
>
>
>
> The aim of the event, funded through UCL's UrbanBuzz
> programme, is to try and increase the range of
> disciplines drawn on by the former group and to
> encourage the latter group to engage with such
> issues. As is outlined below, there are a raft of
> possible benefits that academics might take from the
> day. I very much hope that you will agree to
> participate - whereupon we will send a letter of
> agreement to you (as you will see your time will be
> paid for). We are confident of a full attendance as
> we have identified a lot of potential participants
> and will look beyond London in the unlikely event of
> not finding academics for some disciplines.
>
>
>
> Please let me as soon as possible whether you wish
> to attend - as the day is just a month away we will
> need to approach other potential attendees if we do
> not hear.
>
> Best Wishes, Gareth
>
>
>
> BURA Fresh Eyes Project
>
> Engaging academia for better urban regeneration
>
>
>
> Thursday 27th September 2007
>
> St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, London SE8 3DQ
>
>
>
> The Event
>
> The British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) in
> partnership with the Creekside Forum and the Pepys
> Community Forum is running a one-day event in the
> Pepys Estate, Deptford, South London (location for
> the recent BBC documentary series The Tower). The
> area is full of contrasts in that it has a large
> amount of social housing alongside considerable
> riverside gentrification. It also has a rich
> maritime heritage and a social environment that is
> both multi-cultural and multi-racial.
>
>
>
> The site to be focused on is several hectares and
> currently home to dirty industries such as breakers
> yards - the land is being purchased by a developer
> but no plan exists for it. Although not an attempt
> to come up with a plan, the day's proceedings will
> nonetheless feed into local planning events early in
> the New Year.
>
>
>
> The event, supported by the UrbanBuzz programme run
> by University College London and the University of
> East London, aims to bring together `urbanist'
> academics with academics from disciplines that
> traditionally have little to do with urban
> development/regeneration and to also offer the
> contextual knowledge of professional regenerators
> and local community groups and institutions.
>
>
>
> BURA has already successfully piloted the
> Re-invigorate approach that attempts to `import'
> practitioners to a given area to give fresh
> perspectives on problems. This event will be an
> attempt to create a more academically focussed
> event. It will be held at St. Nicholas Church,
> Deptford and will be Chaired by Professor John
> Worthington.
>
> http://www.degw.com/about/john_worthington.html
>
>
>
> The day will consist of an introduction to the area
> followed by a site tour in small groups - there will
> be contingency plans made in the event of torrential
> rain! Participants will also receive a brief
> introduction sheet/pack a couple of weeks before the
> event. Lunch will be provided. The event will finish
> at 5:45 pm.
>
>
>
> Key Questions
>
> The day is an attempt to start to get some insight
> into four key questions:
>
> o how might urbanist academics benefit from
> working with a wider range of disciplines
> o what barriers there might be to this occurring
> o how might practical regeneration projects
> benefit from these perspectives
> o how can practitioners and communities offer
> insight to academics
>
>
>
> Why should busy academics attend?
>
> o Chance to meet potential research partners from
> other disciplines
> o Chance to meet potential research partners from
> the `host' community
> o Chance to learn about other academic disciplines
> o Chance to see a regeneration site and hear of
> the challenges and wider context
> o Chance to discover possible research ideas
> o Opportunity for your ideas to inform the
> regeneration of a specific site
> o Payment of £425 plus VAT (and travel expenses
> and free lunch)
>
>
>
> What do we want from those who attend?
>
> To offer one or more of the following:
>
> o an enthusiasm for pushing the boundaries of
> accepted practice by innovative thinking
> o advice on how to contextualise the site
> o advice on how to help move forward the specific
> site
> o suggestions as to how their discipline might
> research the current/proposed development
> o suggestions of good/best practice and findings
> from elsewhere in the World
> o brief reflections at the end of the event (and
> then again, via phone/email, 9 months later)
> o brief summary of what their discipline is all
> about
> o recommendation (to attendees) of a key text for
> their discipline
>
>
>
> Format for the Day
>
>
>
> Time Activity
> 9:30 - 10 Tea, Coffee, Networking
> 10 - 10:15 Welcome (and outline of the day and the
> purpose of the exercise)
> 10:15 - 4 Homogenous* Group tours of the case
> 12:00 study area (10 in each group)
> 12:15 - Group presentations
> 1:15
> 1:15 - 2:30 Split into 10 groups of 4 for lunch
> 2:40 - 3:40 5 Heterogeneous Groups (of 8) working on
> integrated perspectives
> 3:40 - 4:40 Group presentations
> 4:40-4:50 Tea/coffee
> 4:50 - 5:20 Code/Principles for regeneration and
> development
> 5:25 - 5:45 Exit `survey' - What expected? Insights
> gained? How take forward?
>
> * the Homogenous Groups are those listed below. The
> Heterogeneous Groups will be a mix drawn from across
> these groups [2 from each Group].
>
>
>
> The Groups
>
>
>
> Group Participant Categories
> Urbanist 1. Architects
> Academics 2. Chartered surveyors
> 3. Civil Engineers
> 4. Estates Management
> 5. Transport Planners
> 6. Urban Designers
> 7. Urban Planners
> 8. Urban Politics
> 9. Urban Sociology
> 10. Economic Geography (local economic
> development)
> Non-Urbanist 1. Anthropologists
> Academics 2. Community psychology
> 3. Cultural studies
> 4. Environmental psychology
> 5. Futures/scenarios
> 6. Systems thinkers
> 7. Environmental economy
> 8. Network analysis
> 9. Urban ecology
> 10. Moral philosophy
> Regenerators 1. Civil engineer
> 2. Ecological Regeneration Manager
> 3. Environment Agency (Regeneration
> Manager)
> 4. Groundwork South East London
> 5. Highways engineer/Transport
> 6. Local Architect/Designer
> 7. Planning Lawyers
> 8. Property developer
> 9. Builder
> 10. Pepys Community Forum
> Community and 1. Lewisham Town Centre Manager
> Local 2. Local Councillor
> Institutions 3. Police
> 4. Port of London
> 5. Teachers
> 6. Neighbourhood Warden
> 7. Lewisham Youth Parliament
> 8. Pepys Community Recycling Project
> 9. SPC.org [virtual local communities]
> 10. Sure Start Pepys
>
>
>
> Still Interested?
>
> If you wish to attend the event please respond asap
> to Dr. Gareth Potts, BURA Director of Research,
> Policy and Best Practice [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> If you cannot attend but are interested in being
> kept informed of possible future developments then
> please let Gareth know this too. Please bear in mind
> that if there are insufficient people on the day the
> project is unlikely to be taken forward!
>
>
>
> Travel Directions
>
> To follow...
>
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Gareth Potts
>
> Director of Research and Policy
>
> British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA)
>
> 63-66 Hatton Garden
>
> London EC1N 8LE
>
> 0207 5394046 / 07792 817156
>
>
>
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