Award-winning writer, Research Director and Senior Producer at Youth Radio, Elisabeth Soep’s new book, Participatory Politics: Next-Generation Tactics to Remake Public Spheres explores youth civic engagement across digital and face-to-face contexts.
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Angela Durey et al., Curtin University, recently published ‘Improving healthcare for Aboriginal Australians through effective engagement between community and health services’, an assessment of a community engagement strategy between health providers and Aboriginal communities across five southern districts of Perth, Western Australia.
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Engagement scholars and practitioners descended on Melbourne for the Engage to Transform, Engagement Australia’s 13th annual conference, held on July 18-19. Hosted by Victoria University, the conference keynotes explored the nexus between engagement and transformation.
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Human-centred design can afford urban planners processes to see what happens when communities take an active role in designing.
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Elizabeth Taylor and Claire Wilkinson look at how local communities can influence decision-making in liquor licensing.
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Kate Cordes, Assistant Director of Maps, Local History, and Genealogy at The New York Public Library (NYPL) recently published Together We Listen: Generating Accessible Oral Histories of NYC through Community Participatory Projects, a descriptive overview of the origins, processes, and progress of the NYPL’s Community Oral History Project.
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Every profession answers the question “What is community engagement” differently. Even those within the community engagement sector, cannot agree.
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Mark Pancer, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, gives a glimpse into his research into the participation phenomenon and reveals the life-saving benefits of civic engagement.
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Ben Iaquinto, weighs the advantages & disadvantages of backpacker communities. Backpacker communities also show us how community engagement is a collective performance.
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With more than 30% of London’s land surface designated green, Jess Topham argues that public engagement in preserving green spaces is crucial.
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Alun Probert, Head of GovCom, weighs up civic engagement in the digital age.
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On 23rd June, UK citizens will have the opportunity to vote whether the country remains in or leaves the EU. Not since 1975 has the UK had a vote on EU membership and so both sides are investing heavily in putting their case across to the masses. However, whilst initial research shows that Britons are […]
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Jennifer Power and Graham Brown discuss how online engagement for people living with HIV (PLHIV) is one way to ensure better healthcare outcomes.
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Serryn Eagleson explores how the future could include all the big data about Australian Cities mapped, connected and made available to people with a right to use it.
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The City of Nedlands in Western Australia site is a great example of an informational project and what can happen when an entire organisation embraces the online engagement possibilities of EngagementHQ.
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S. Mark Pancer, professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada presents a summary of his book, The Psychology of Citizenship and Civic Engagement.
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Lesson 10 of our top tips on best-practice online citizen engagement. Citizen engagement can be a fraught activity with participants often left dissatisfied if they feel their contributions are not duly considered in the decision-making process.
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Lesson 9 in our ten top tips for best-practice online citizen engagement series. With online citizen engagement, it is equally important to respect the community and take the time to measure and understand their responses as well as provide genuine feedback.
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Citizen science is also called public participation in scientific research. So there would seem to be a natural nexus between it and community engagement practice.
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