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Learning in Lockdown
15 April 2020
The Citadel The Citadel, as we are more colloquially known to our service users, has been helping children and young people in the Leith area of Edinburgh since 1980. In recent times, our provision has focussed on youth clubs offering a wide range of social,
Supporting our communities, our ventures – and ourselves
6 April 2020 | Authors: Eve Avdoulos, Tatevik Sargsyan,
To say that these times are unprecedented would be an understatement. Within the span of one week, our entire country, and nearly a quarter of the globe, has immediately needed to adapt to new ways of working, new ways of operating and new ways of communicating with colleagues, friends and families.
Community Organising at Pace
31 March 2020
I believe wholeheartedly in the power of community – to enable citizens to lead and to seek out local solutions to local issues. The current public health crisis facing communities across the world offers a unique opportunity to reveal the value of community,
Community & Covid-19
20 March 2020
We understand that Covid-19 is already changing and will profoundly change the experience of community and life in every local place in the UK. This research gives us a detailed account of the state of community on the brink of
Looking local
29 November 2019 | Authors: Emily Morrison,
ICS research sheds a new light on communities’ agenda for this general election In a general election dominated by big national issues, our new research looks at what matters to people in Britain: community. Over the last three months we’ve
Communities – nine ways to break them
28 October 2019
Originally published at: juliaunwin.com All my working life the call has been for stronger communities. Communities that could – depending on fashion and decade – care for their neighbours, enable regeneration, manage their carbon footprints, be more resilient, engage in community
The Institute for Community Studies goes live.
15 October 2019
Two years after first discussing the idea of relaunching the Institute, today our Manifesto gives a fantastic summary of what’re we’re about and our mission. You can get a sense of all those collaborating on research in and with communities
History and the challenge of community today
15 October 2019
Based on the research I did for Me, Me, Me?: the Search for Community in Post-war England my historical starting point would be: There has never been a ‘golden age’ of community and Britain has been a strongly individualist society for generations
The word “community” is at risk of losing all meaning
15 October 2019
Over the years, it has become a staple in corporate-speak, and there seems to me a sad correlation between the rise of the word in marketing and the slow demise of community itself. Everyone now “cares about the community,” especially
The biggest challenge for politics, for all of us, is to reconnect community with place.
15 October 2019
The biggest challenge for politics, for all of us, is to reconnect community with place. My job involves turning in places with my camera, spending a couple of days to take the temperature, then moving on. But In 2017 I
Remembering the original Institute for Community Studies
14 October 2019
Two former employees of the original Institute for Community Studies reflect on Michael Young’s approach to creating change… Michael Young thought that the best way of understanding people’s lives was to ask them, ideally by talking to them himself. He
How being a community researcher reconnected me to my home town
11 October 2019
I was born in this town. My family all live in this town. As a child, I played out on the streets with my friends in this town. In the winters we made snowmen and had snowball fights. In the