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The UK's home for community research and social innovation. Also powering the Institute for Community Studies.
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@theyoungfdn.bsky.social🌱 For World Food Day, we're reflecting on how underused public land could help communities grow food, build local skills and strengthen connections.
Read our recent letter to The Guardian 👇
https://ow.ly/LlCC50ZYgnw
@theyoungfdn.bsky.socialClimate action works better when it reflects people’s everyday realities.
Our Senior Researcher Leonie Taylor shares the impact of our work with @lutoncouncil.bsky.social combining local data and community voice for a fairer path to net zero.
@theyoungfdn.bsky.socialOPINION 💭 | Why community knowledge belongs at the heart of higher education
Writing for University World News, Jack Layton and @parlysue.bsky.social explore, sharing the thinking behind the new Journal for Community Studies 👇
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20260930112346517
@theyoungfdn.bsky.social📖 JOURNAL FOR COMMUNITY STUDIES | ISSUE ONE | ARTICLE FIVE
Dr Eleanor Lockley, Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, and Dr Aunam Quyoum, an Embedded Researcher for Darnall Well Being, explore the power and pitfalls of technology to better-connect communities 👇
https://bit.ly/4ysyW0s
@theyoungfdn.bsky.social📖 JOURNAL FOR COMMUNITY STUDIES | ISSUE ONE | ARTICLE FOUR
Prof Peter Matthews, University of Stirling, Prof Louise Ryan, University of Greenwich, Chris French at Lambeth Links, and Dr Franca Roeschert and Binki Taylor at The Brixton Project explore diverse communities 👇
https://bit.ly/4ze46Zv
@c4research.bsky.socialReposted by @theyoungfdn.bsky.socialNew Journal launch 🚀
The inaugural Journal for Community Studies, supported by our Centre, brings together academic research and community voice to explore what helps communities thrive.
Read issue one 👇
bit.ly/46YymeF
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@right-here.orgReposted by @theyoungfdn.bsky.socialAs politicians chat in the Labour Party Conference rooms far from the communities they serve, we brought the two worlds closer together through the Community Power Bus. 🚌 Community spaces are essential infrastructure, not optional extras. The next stop for devolution has got to be community power.
@right-here.orgReposted by @theyoungfdn.bsky.socialThe new Journal for Community Studies brings academic research into direct conversation with the experience & expertise held by communities.
The @theyoungfdn.bsky.social publication challenges assumptions over who creates knowledge and what evidence matters. www.youngfoundation.org/journal-for-...
@theyoungfdn.bsky.social📖 JOURNAL FOR COMMUNITY STUDIES | ISSUE ONE | ARTICLE THREE
Professor Andrea Wigfield and Dr Stephen Green at Sheffield Hallam University, and Emily Abbott and Charlotte Miller at Intergenerational England, explore the potential of intergenerational connections👇
https://tinyurl.com/2dt6uhdj
@theyoungfdn.bsky.socialBLOG 🖋️ | Community knowledge is essential knowledge
As we launch our new Journal for Community Studies, our CEO, @parlysue.bsky.social, shares its central principle: bringing academic expertise and community experience around the same table 👇
https://tinyurl.com/yknawpvp
@nickplumb.bsky.socialReposted by @theyoungfdn.bsky.socialLast but no means least, we're taking a double decker bus to conference with @right-here.org @hopenothate.org.uk @jrf-uk.bsky.social @locality.org.uk @uclpolicylab.bsky.social @theyoungfdn.bsky.social.
📍Salthouse Gates Lay-by on Monday and Tuesday
📅 Rally Tuesday 29 September 11:15am
@theyoungfdn.bsky.social📖 JOURNAL FOR COMMUNITY STUDIES | ISSUE ONE | ARTICLE TWO
Cristina Cerulli, University of Reading, and Tom Chance, Community Land Trust Network, explore what community ownership can do for connected communities 👇
https://tinyurl.com/mrxdkkvm
The Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness
@theyoungfdn.bsky.social📖 JOURNAL FOR COMMUNITY STUDIES | ISSUE ONE | ARTICLE ONE
Rob Macmillan, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University, and Anthea Coulter, Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface, explore social infrastructure👇
https://tinyurl.com/43s4b87u
@theyoungfdn.bsky.social🚀 Introducing the Journal for Community Studies
A new publication that brings academic research into direct conversation with the knowledge, experience and expertise held within communities across the UK.
Read now 👇
tinyurl.com/2xbjp87z
@theyoungfdn.bsky.social💭 Renters are an afterthought in the UK’s green energy transition, writes our Senior Research Manager Samanthi Theminimulle, as 'the promise of energy democracy collapses into a familiar instruction: ask your landlord'.
Read the blog > bit.ly/46ZfVGK
@theyoungfdn.bsky.socialBLOG 🗣️Will planning reform drive community power? Leonie Taylor, Summer Simpson and Samanthi Theminimulle say despite introducing some change, the govt's new framework offers no new powers and ‘is a glaring missed opportunity'.
@theyoungfdn.bsky.socialOPINION ✍ Our Senior Researcher Leonie Taylor welcomes a shift towards participatory policymaking on climate justice. But she says "we now need to bring people of different ages together, designing opportunities for all and harnessing the power of intergenerational participation".👏
@theyoungfdn.bsky.socialOPINION 💭 | The government is backing community spaces. But who will keep them alive?
Recognising a shifting political and public mood, Summer Simpson highlights the value of community spaces for local people and places 👇
www.themj.co.uk/government-b...
