thanks
sorry, slipped of my to do list - glad you could fill the place
still interested in the development of the approach
Tim
Gareth Potts <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Haven’t heard back from you and so have had to let your place go – there were lots of community psychology responses. If you are still interested in the development of this approach please let me know.
Cheers, Gareth
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Sent: 29 August 2007 09:03
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Subject: Thames Valley University - Community Psychology
thanks
am interested if I can make it, but am away at the moment without diary handy - can I let you know?
Tim
Dr Tim Anstiss
thames valley university
Gareth Potts <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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:
how might urbanist academics benefit from working with a wider range of disciplines
what barriers there might be to this occurring
how might practical regeneration projects benefit from these perspectives
how can practitioners and communities offer insight to academics
Why should busy academics attend?
Chance to meet potential research partners from other disciplines
Chance to meet potential research partners from the ‘host’ community
Chance to learn about other academic disciplines
Chance to see a regeneration site and hear of the challenges and wider context
Chance to discover possible research ideas
Opportunity for your ideas to inform the regeneration of a specific site
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:
an enthusiasm for pushing the boundaries of accepted practice by innovative thinking
advice on how to contextualise the site
advice on how to help move forward the specific site
suggestions as to how their discipline might research the current/proposed development
suggestions of good/best practice and findings from elsewhere in the World
brief reflections at the end of the event (and then again, via phone/email, 9 months later)
brief summary of what their discipline is all about
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 – 12:00
4 Homogenous* Group tours of the case study area (10 in each group)
12:15 – 1:15
Group presentations
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 Academics
Architects
Chartered surveyors
Civil Engineers
Estates Management
Transport Planners
Urban Designers
Urban Planners
Urban Politics
Urban Sociology
Economic Geography (local economic development)
Non-Urbanist Academics
Anthropologists
Community psychology
Cultural studies
Environmental psychology
Futures/scenarios
Systems thinkers
Environmental economy
Network analysis
Urban ecology
Moral philosophy
Regenerators
Civil engineer
Ecological Regeneration Manager
Environment Agency (Regeneration Manager)
Groundwork South East London
Highways engineer/Transport
Local Architect/Designer
Planning Lawyers
Property developer
Builder
Pepys Community Forum
Community and Local Institutions
Lewisham Town Centre Manager
Local Councillor
Police
Port of London
Teachers
Neighbourhood Warden
Lewisham Youth Parliament
Pepys Community Recycling Project
SPC.org [virtual local communities]
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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