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
1 year ago
Youth-initiated participation shows improvements to community life and highlights children and young people’s agency as key to social transformation.
1 year ago
Stockholm Environment Institute research finds mobilised citizens key to expanding public participation to achieve sustainability goals.
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Launched in February this year, Safer Care Victoria’s new healthcare framework is trailblazing positive change in healthcare across Victoria.
2 years ago
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 […]
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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.
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Low performing public participation functions as a self-fulfilling prophecy in large transportation projects, find Ted Grossardt and Keiron Bailey.
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In the emerging trend of community-based smart initiatives, Tooran Alizadeh envisions crowdsourced smart cities.
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Recent study reveals e-participation directly influences perceptions of tolerance and common good.
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Community engagement and public libraries suggest a certain symbiosis. Re-weaving this convergence, Sherry Norfolk and Jane Stenson highlight how storytelling strengthens community.
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A milestone resource, Ireland’s new ‘Framework for Public Involvement in Clinical Effectiveness Processes’ brings public participation front and centre in healthcare decision making.
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Citizen panels could generate better policy preferences than public opinion polls, finds recent Canadian study.
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UK youth juries ‘put the Internet on Trial’, using storytelling and drama to think about their rights.
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