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.
Sally Hussey
3 months ago
Mobilised citizens improve public input into environmental policies
Stockholm Environment Institute research finds mobilised citizens key to expanding public participation to achieve sustainability goals.
Sally Hussey
4 months ago
“Nothing about us without us”: New framework elevates consumers’ voice in healthcare
Launched in February this year, Safer Care Victoria’s new healthcare framework is trailblazing positive change in healthcare across Victoria.
Sally Hussey
6 months ago
Between the spectra: Arnstein’s Ladder plugs the gap of IAP2 spectrum
Adopting Arnstein’s 1969 Ladder of Citizen Participation alongside the current widespread use of the IAP2 spectrum might help governments engage more meaningfully with their citizens, recent research suggests. In Australia – indeed globally – governments increasingly recognise the need to shift toward more inclusive decision making processes. But there remains, what scholars Aaron Davis and […]
Sally Hussey
9 months ago
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.
Sally Hussey
10 months ago
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.
Sally Hussey
12 months ago
Online engagement helps envision crowdsourced smart cities
In the emerging trend of community-based smart initiatives, Tooran Alizadeh envisions crowdsourced smart cities.
Sally Hussey
1 year ago
Tolerance and common good: e-participation impacts social polarisation
Recent study reveals e-participation directly influences perceptions of tolerance and common good.
Sally Hussey
1 year ago
Storytelling projects inspiring new community connections
Community engagement and public libraries suggest a certain symbiosis. Re-weaving this convergence, Sherry Norfolk and Jane Stenson highlight how storytelling strengthens community.
Sally Hussey
1 year ago
Public involvement framework fortifies Ireland’s Department of Health
A milestone resource, Ireland’s new ‘Framework for Public Involvement in Clinical Effectiveness Processes’ brings public participation front and centre in healthcare decision making.
Sally Hussey
1 year ago
Study finds citizen panels outdo public opinion polls
Citizen panels could generate better policy preferences than public opinion polls, finds recent Canadian study.
Sally Hussey
1 year ago
‘Putting the Internet on Trial’: UK youth juries deliberate their digital rights
UK youth juries ‘put the Internet on Trial’, using storytelling and drama to think about their rights.
Sally Hussey
1 year ago
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