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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

9 months ago

Men and woman crouching around a community garden

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

10 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.

12 months ago

Between the spectra: Arnstein’s Ladder plugs the gap of IAP2 spectrum

Sally Hussey 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 […]

1 year 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.