Archived Publications from the Centre for Lifelong Learning and Community Engagement
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How large and small organisations support each other in the third sector
Hannah Jones has written a Feb%202011%20Bassac-report for bassac and Goldsmiths University. This research explores a number of different types of hosting relationship, in different geographical locations, with different funding relationships, histories and purposes. It sets out to explore the benefits of a hosting relationship for the community anchor and the organisations they host, and what helps to make a hosting relationship successful.
Report from Praxis/Centre for Lifelong Learning and Community Engagement, Goldsmiths
Juan Camilo Cock's report on 'Evaluating the Impact of Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations on Community Cohesion' provides an overview of differing approaches, experiences and guidance. Having set out their limitations as well as their strengths, the report goes on to propose ways of building upon these, to develop effective evaluation strategies for Third Sector organisations that are concerned with building social solidarity, such as Praxis, the partner organisation for this research.
Report from TUC/Centre for Lifelong Learning and Community Engagement, Goldsmiths
Professor Marjorie Mayo says about author Chris Wright's report: "TUC%20Swords%20of%20justice%20and%20civic%20pillars%20final; the case for greater community engagement by British trade unions' explains the concept of union-community engagement, linking strategies for active trade unionism with strategies for active citizenship. Through five case studies, the report goes on to demonstrate ways in which trade unions and communities can develop networks to support vulnerable workers, encourage activism, improve access to employment and training and strengthen community cohesion. This report is very timely in the context of debates on the Big Society together with debates on impacts of the Comprehensive Public Spending Review".
Report from One World Trust/Centre for Lifelong Learning and Community Engagement, Goldsmiths
This timely report, ‘Empowering citizens: Realising service user involvement in UK Third Sector organisations through accountability principles in self-regulation initiatives’ written by Jeannet Lingan and Michael Hammer, builds upon the One World Trust’s extensive expertise in Third Sector accountability in the context of international development. Having reviewed the lessons from a diversity of countries, the researchers move on to examine a range of self-regulation initiatives in UK, identifying ways in which they can encourage the participation of users, thereby strengthening the accountability of civil society organisations more generally.
Report from TUC/Centre for Lifelong Learning and Community Engagement, Goldsmiths
Professor Marjorie Mayo says about author Chris Wright's report: "TUC%20Swords%20of%20justice%20and%20civic%20pillars%20final ; the case for greater community engagement by British trade unions' explains the concept of union-community engagement, linking strategies for active trade unionism with strategies for active citizenship. Through five case studies, the report goes on to demonstrate ways in which trade unions and communities can develop networks to support vulnerable workers, encourage activism, improve access to employment and training and strengthen community cohesion. This report is very timely in the context of debates on the Big Society together with debates on impacts of the Comprehensive Public Spending Review".
Third Sector Research Capacity Building initiative - Free Radicals report: Youth-led political organising in the UK: lessons, challenges and prospects
Free%20Radicals%20Methods%20Document This report draws upon the lessons from previous experiences of organising young people for social justice and democratic social change, reflecting upon their relevance for organising young people as active citizens today. The report was written by Adam Elliott-Cooper, Dan Firth and colleagues at FreeRadicals.
This TAKING%20PART%20CASE%20STUDY%20-%20Stream%20Arts%20(2) by Alison Rooke and Cristina Garrido Sánchez from the Centre for Urban and Community Research: The Take Part Case Study – Stream Artsexamines the work of a small arts agency which commissions participatory art. It examines two commissions which invited local residents to express their feelings about the large- scale which has taken place in their local area. The case study examines the complex context that this agency operates within, the governmentality surrounding the project and the wider citizenship dimensions of participatory and collaborative arts.
Direct Action and Grassroots Democracy - The Legacy of Saul Alinsky
By John Eversley, August 2009
Alinsky-Conference [pdf]
Spanning Citizenship Spaces Through Transnational Coalitions: The Case of the Global Campaign for Education
By John Gaventa and Marjorie Mayo, June 2009
spanning-citizenship-spaces [pdf]
'From anti-oppressive practice to community cohesion' a journal article by Kalbir Shukra published in Youth and Policy No 100, summer/autumn 2008, pp 231-239
Community engagement and community cohesion
Geraldine Blake, John Diamond, Jane Foot, Ben Gidley, Marjorie Mayo, Kalbir Shukra, Martin Yarnit
An exploration of the challenges to be addressed if government policies to promote community engagement are to be genuinely inclusive of newcomers as well as more established communities.
Download full report [pdf]
DCSF Research Brief : Pathways to permanence for children of black, Asian, and mixed ethnicity: dilemmas, decision-making and outcomes
Julie Selwyn, David Quinton, Pelita Harris, Dinithi Wijedasa, Shameem Nawaz, Marsha Wood, The Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies, University of Bristol