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Dear Wendy, Thanks for consulting with us re. conference organisation. Here are a few points you might like to consider: 1. When I was organising the UK community psychology meeting in Scotland a few years ago, it was suggested that a conference which included Friday evening and Saturday would result in Jewish colleagues being excluded. I would certainly take that into account in the future and would avoid any day of the week which might lead to some people being selectively excluded. 2. The BPS is organising a day conference on "Building Thriving Communities" (provisional title) in London at which I agreed to be a speaker. It is supposed to be in September but the date has not been finalised yet. 3. Stirling University teaching starts on Monday 11th September. Most Universities start back in October I believe. 4. The European Community Psychology Association is holding its conference in Poland on October 6th and 7th. 5. I suggest it should be an absolute requirement at any community psychology conference that all meeting spaces are fully accessible to all. This is important in order to comply with the DDA but I also believe, as community psychologists, we should be fastidious in implementing the social model of disability for inclusion and social justice reasons. 7. Everyone will have different views re. length of the conference. My own view is that 3 full days would be possible and attractive for relatively few people. 8. I am not very keen on at the end of the conference being devoted to action. I would prefer the whole conference should be dedicated to both critical thinking and progressive action. I hope these comments are useful David David Fryer Community Psychology Group University of Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland +44 (0) 1786 467650 (tel) +44 (0) 1786 467641 (fax) [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Franks, Wendy - Clinical Psychologist Sent: 25 January 2006 9:23 am To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] On the subject of conferences... Sorry about the broken link... try again here: http://www.goeast.gov.uk/goee/docs/193516/193520/347716/PR_Case_Study_PM FCRC.doc W -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Franks [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 24 January 2006 17:06 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] On the subject of conferences... Hello all. We had a meeting at the end of last week to talk about developing plans for the 2006 conference. One of the first things we need to organise is a venue, and to do this, we need dates. At this point, we'd like to let you all know about the dates that we're thinking of booking. We'd like to do this early to check out whether there are any major objections to the dates we're suggesting, and also so that they can go into people's diaries. We are looking to book a local community centre (some info can be found here: www.goeast.gov.uk/goee/docs/ 193516/193520/347716/PR_Case_Study_PMFCRC.doc) for either 2 or 3 days. If we go for 3 days, we suggest Weds-Fri 20-22 Sept. If we go for just 2 days, we suggest Thurs-Fri 21-22 September. At Newcastle we talked about a third day to focus on action. We wondered how many people would be interested in attending this day. I suspect it may be a smaller group, and in this case, we would only need to book part of the Priory Centre. The facilities at the Priory include one large hall and 2 smaller spaces adjacent and another upstairs (each of these rooms would be suitable for workshops and small presentations for about 20 - 30 people, the hall will hold 100 +). I don't think the upstairs room is accessible to people in wheelchairs, and so we will need to consider whether to use this room at all, and if so, how to arrange the programme so that nobody is excluded from parts of the conference that they would like to attend because of accessibility problems. I think we could do this by being organised enough in advance to ask people who need wheelchair access about their choices of workshops. I'll check out for definite if there is access or not. But maybe this is too much detail? We'd like to book it up quite soon, so please let me know if there are any major concerns about the dates, the venue or anything else. I'd also be grateful if we could get some feedback on whether they think a third day for action is a good idea. I can give more info about the planning as we go along, or if anyone has particular suggestions or questions (like who's involved, etc). We'll be looking for a bit of help from the list in a couple of areas, particularly in seeking out potential presenters and reviewing abstracts, so any volunteers would be most welcome to get in touch. Best wishes, Wendy ___________________________________ COMMUNITYPSYCHUK - The discussion list for community psychology in the UK. To unsubscribe or to change your details visit the website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/COMMUNITYPSYCHUK.HTML For any problems or queries, contact the list moderator at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] ___________________________________ COMMUNITYPSYCHUK - The discussion list for community psychology in the UK. 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