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Dear Deborah,

I very strongly agree that children and young people are a much neglected and very oppressed group in the UK and that critical community psychology ought to be more involved in promoting their interests.

You mention Serdar Degirmencioglu's Turkish based community psychology work, which he talked about at the London BPS day Conference: Promoting Mental Health in Communities. We (College of Fellows) are trying to write up an account of that day, including the contributions not only of Serdar but also Cathy McCormack, George Black, Elaine Swift, Ed Cairns, myself and members of the conference body (I think that the meeting was distinguished by very many valuable contributions for the floor and that there was a very great deal of enthusiasm for community psychology from the floor which seemed to include many coming to community psychology for the first time). I will try to make that summary account available via this list when completed. Those wanting more detail about Serdar's work sooner could contact him on [log in to unmask]

Rachael Fox at Stirling has been developing critical community psychology up to the task of promoting the rights of children and young people and this is a very important line to develop in my view. Rachael is a member of this list but can also be contacted via: [log in to unmask]

David

Thanks for this Paul. I am involved in an NRF project so the workshop would be very helpful to get me to think about how we evaluate what we are doing. I think I posted about this project a few months ago when we were just getting started. The original scope of the project was very broad, and so probably nearly impossible to evaluate - promoting wellbeing and positive mental health in a deprived area in Tower Hamlets in East London. We have narrowed it down to look at what primary health workers can do to support emotional and psychological wellbeing among service users that they work with. We've been having some focus groups with health workers, and will be having meetings with groups of service users, from Somali elders to Bangladeshi people with physical disabilities to white mothers who attend playgroups with their toddlers. I'll keep you posted.

On a different topic - I'm still feeling very depressed after reading the reports about the UNICEF report about children in the UK and how badly they do on quality of life measures compared to kids in other industrialised countries. Just made me wonder how much our culture hates children. Surely scope for community psychology to address some of these issues. Those on the list who attended the BPS day a few weeks ago on Promoting Mental Health in Communities will remember Serdar Degirmencioglu's very inspiring presentation about facilitating young people's agency to support them to address their worries and concerns. Seems to me that our culture is about undermining and denigrating young people's agency. These are the sort of issues that prey more and more on my mind; I live in Stockwell in South London which keeps getting into the news for all the wrong reasons, most recently a 15 year old boy was shot in the estate about 500 yards from my house (one of my best friend's nephew was knifed to death in similar circumstances). Plus my elder son is about to leave his cosy little primary school for the big bad world of a South London comprehensive. My friend and neighbour Katrina says that it is good that finally policy makers will have to recognise what local people have known for ages, that this is a pretty desperate place for young people to grow up, unless they have a plenty of economic, social and cultural capital to fall back on. We're going to get involved again in the local playground project which has been trying to get more support for youth groups.

I could probably witter on like this for ages, but would like to hear if any of these issues provoke some resonances in list members.

Deborah

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Subject: Fwd: FW: Regeneration Management Workshop

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thinking on some of th e stuff talked in Great Yarmouth..................

This may get people's juices flowing re: the possibilty of a paper challenging the paradigm in which regeneration evaluation tends to take place

don't think i need to say more, but if people want to discuss potential for joint paper that reflects on mainstream approaches to evaluation in epistemogically sounder wya than these approaches tend to set out, before moving on critical/community psycohology tenets, i'm open to ideas.

well didn't intend to say more but self righteous fingers got to work

paul

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Dear Colleagues

You may want to circulate this to colleagues.

It is a free workshop, with the aim of bringing together academics ,
practitioners and policy makers to have conversations about
regeneration.
I was the founder of this Workshop, while I was at the University of
Durham, and we are now in our 7th year. Hoping to host it at Nottingham
next year.

Practitioners (policy makers and officials) particularly welcome, even
if they don't want to give a paper.

We usually attract 40-50 people , but need to know who is coming, for
catering purposes

Please ask anyone interested in attending just to drop us an email to
say they wish to attend

Best wishes
Joyce

Dr Joyce Liddle
Associate Professor of Public Policy
MPA/MPP Director
Editor, International Journal of Public Sector Management Nottingham
Policy Centre Room A102, West Wing Law and Social Sciences Building
School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham
University Park NOTTINGHAM NG72RD, UK Tel +0044 (0)115 8468128 Fax +0044
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