Planning Research and Education in Partnership with Communities

You are invited to participate in this event about creating partnerships with communities in planning research and education. This is an open event, which will bring communities together with researchers to discuss the challenges, opportunities, best practices, and impact of collaborative work between researchers and communities.

The event consists of two parts. The first part will be three panel discussions with contributions from community groups and researchers on the following topics: community and planning education, co-producing planning research, and broadening community voices on policy-making. The second part will be a workshop discussion on communities-university collaboration.

Programme

10:00 – 10:30 - Arrivals with coffee/tea

10:30 – 10:45 - Introduction

10:45 -  Panel 1: Community and Planning Education

Speakers

• Ethan Mc Donnell and Patrick O’Mahoney, UCL students
• David Kaye, Kilburn Neighbourhood Planning Forum 
• Mary Arnold, Kilburn Neighbourhood Forum and South Kilburn Trust

Chair: Elena Besussi, UCL

11:30 - Panel 2: Co-producing planning research

• Richard Lee, Just Space and EstateWatch
• Angus Robertson, Alton Action
• Toby Laurent Belson, Community artist/activist based in North Kensington

Chair: Pablo Sendra, UCL

12:15 - Panel 3: Broadening community voices on policy-making

• Jonah Earle, Peoples Economy
• Krissie Nicholson, East End Trades Guild
• Myfanwy Taylor, UCL

Chairs: Jessica Ferm and Ben Hughes, UCL

13:00 - Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 - Workshop discussion on community-led agendas for research and processes of collaboration

16:30 - Conclusions

17:00 – 18:00 - Networking

This event is co-organised by three research clusters at the Bartlett School of Planning: Community Engaged Planning Research, Innovation in Planning Education, and Everyday Economies. Members of these clusters will be facilitating the discussions, under Chatham House Rule—this means that participants are free to use/quote the information discussed during the workshop, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. From the discussions, we will produce a short summary report each discussion, which we will share with participants and in UCL website.