Planning Research and Education in Partnership with Communities
25 June 2024, 10:00 am–5:00 pm

Join us for an interactive workshop discussion on the challenges, opportunities, best practices, and impact of collaborative work between researchers and communities. The workshop consists of three panel discussions and a general workshop discussion, focusing on community and planning education, co-producing planning research, broadening community voices on policy-making, as well as circumstances and agendas for community-university collaboration. This workshop is the first of a series of an annual events that aim to bring together different stakeholders to explore topics related to community engagement in planning.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Pablo Sendra
Location
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Waterloo Action Centre (Rear Room)14 Baylis RoadLondonSE1 7AA
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.