A Virtuous Circle: Rehumanising Healthcare Through Patient Leadership
Sally Hussey reviews David Gilbert’s The Patient Revolution: How we can heal the healthcare system.
Sally Hussey
Sally Hussey is Bang the Table's Principal Writer and Editorial Director. She has an extensive background in the publishing, academic and cultural sectors.
Community Well-Being: How Digital Engagement Improves Social, Cultural, Environmental and Economic Outcomes
Discover ways to deliver on this new living-standards framework and with examples from Rotorua Lakes Council and Queenstown Lakes District Council putting these standards into practice.
Climate Chaos, Cannabis, Housing Scarcity and Deliberation
Interrogating major global challenges in public engagement in 2019, Climate Chaos, Cannabis, Housing Scarcity unlocks the transformative potential of local-level community engagement.
21st Century Practitioner’s Guide to Community Engagement
An essential resource for twenty-first-century engagement practitioners that shows how to kick start your journey in digital engagement using Bang the Table’s community engagement platform, EngagementHQ.
Community Engagement 101
From what to how to why, an essential guide to understanding fundamentals of community engagement Community engagement can be a complicated concept. Too often, attempts at singular definitions turn the concept of engaging people to have their say on decisions that impact their lives into abstract notions that sideline it’s essence. Emphasis on the lived […]
Let’s Talk Rotorua! Manifesting Values at the Heart of Engagement
Rotorua Lake Council’s dedicated engagement space underlines the Council’s commitment to nurturing the culture of engagement that continues to sustain vital online and offline conversations.
Seen and Heard: children and youth as agents of community change
Youth-initiated participation shows improvements to community life and highlights children and young people’s agency as key to social transformation.
Mobilised citizens improve public input into environmental policies
Stockholm Environment Institute research finds mobilised citizens key to expanding public participation to achieve sustainability goals.
Humanising urban environments: why urban renewal projects need local communities’ interventions
Without question, local communities play a pivotal role in urban renewal. Moreover, there is a discernible impact arising from a community-engagement approach to contemporary city-building, where support for social capital is prioritised.
Running on empty: refuelling public participation in transportation planning
Low performing public participation functions as a self-fulfilling prophecy in large transportation projects, find Ted Grossardt and Keiron Bailey.
Online engagement helps envision crowdsourced smart cities
In the emerging trend of community-based smart initiatives, Tooran Alizadeh envisions crowdsourced smart cities.
Tolerance and common good: e-participation impacts social polarisation
Recent study reveals e-participation directly influences perceptions of tolerance and common good.
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