Val Woodward (Project Researcher)

Programme for 18th October

Where we have got to:• Iram: Looking at deprivation data • Recap of last week’s afternoon session• An active break• Homework• Input from guests• Discussion about what we now know, what

more we want to know, resources available and how we will develop our research

Some data• Sandwell

http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=7&i=1001&m=0&s=1286895338218&enc=1&areaSearchText=sandwell&areaSearchType=13&extendedList=false&searchAreas=Search

• Birmingham: http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=7&i=1001&m=0&s=1286895338218&enc=1&areaSearchText=Birmingham&areaSearchType=13&extendedList=false

• Stoke on Trent: http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=7&i=1001&m=0&s=1286895338218&enc=1&areaSearchText=Stoke-on-Trent&areaSearchType=13&extendedList=false&searchAreas=Search

Some other sources

• Driving up Participation (Sport England 2004)http://www.sportengland.org/research/active_people_survey/

active_people_survey_4.aspx

• Birmingham Health Information Team 2009 Life Expectancy Ward Analysis

• http://www.thecompact.org.uk/files/141919/FileName/Brap-EngagingPeople.pdf

Further reading

• Melanie Bowles (2010) The Current Context for Community Development

Discussion paper 1- expert panel on community development

• Chanan, G. and Miller, C. (2009) Empowerment Skills for All; Leeds; Home and Communities Agency

• CLG (2006) The Community Development Challlenge; London CLG (p11)

Aims of session 1

• The team feel part of the project

• The team know about the project

• The team understand the project

• The team are ready to actively contribute to the project

The team

• Sonia Moore• Linda Harrington• Neelam Rose• Pritesh Pattni• Johanna Collins• Qasim Maqsood• Val Woodward• Iram Naz• Sue Blair

Today’s guests

• Clare White• Gemma Hurst• Helen Baglee• Craig Simpson• Shaju Bibi

Travel to Newhall Street

We all talked about our journeys.

Val talked about her new bike- won from Centro

The Research

• Useful• Active• Progress and recording for self,

project and wider dissemination• Praxis• Academic links

Underlying philosophy

• Poor health and poor living conditions tend to go hand in hand.

• Good health, especially when related to empowering activities, contributes to ameliorating social disadvantage for both the individual and consequently the community.

The Marmot Review

http://www.marmotreview.org/resources/presentations.aspx

Communities of Practice

• http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/welcome.do

The training

• Participatory• Collective

Programme

• Where will we work?• Ethics• Action research and interviewing• Planning, scheduling and preparing

interviews• Reflecting on real pitfalls• Our project in context• Progress • Reflections• Planning

Homework

• Part of training and research• Compulsory• Formative (not summative)• Critical friend• Feedback from researchers

about what they have investigated so far

Aims of session 2

• To ensure the team has access to resources, individually and collectively, that allows us to decide where we will carry out our interviews

• To begin the process of understanding community development praxis with those most at need; ensure the team are able and confident to engage with appropriate groups in appropriate settings and to recruit participants in the research

Objectives for week 2

• Be able to identify communities in Sandwell, Birmingham and Stoke on Trent that rae marginalised and facing health inequalities

• Have considered the best ways to engage with such communities

• Have considered the communities where work will be focused

• Have drawn up outline action plans to engage with such communities

Birmingham

• Helen Baglee

Stoke on Trent

• Gemma Hurst• Clare White

Sandwell

• Craig Simpson• Shaju Bibi

Places the team will work

• Reflect on what we need to find out and/or do to complete our reports

• Discussion about deciding on areas for the interviews to take place

Final issues for week 2

• The homework• Monitoring personal and group

learning• Next week’s session, including times

(11.30 start?)• The rest of the programme• Steering group membership

(rotating?) Nov. 23rd• Networking and dissemination