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Understanding Communities

Understanding Communities: insights into the research process

Dr George Evans, Policy Adviser at the British Academy

5 min readMar 21, 2024

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Understanding Communities: insights into the research process

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Understanding Communities

Closing the gap: how to address key challenges in community-based policymaking

Jess Redmond, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Community Studies at The Young Foundation

7 min readMar 21, 2024

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Fun run participants in Leazes Park in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Understanding Communities

Women with convictions: transforming justice from the ground up

Dr Ian Mahoney, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University

6 min readNov 2, 2023

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Terraces of houses near the city centre of Stoke on Trent, between lines of green-leaved trees. In the background, a church steeple rises above the treeline into a cloudless sky.

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Reframing Childhood Past and Present

Navigating the path from childhood to adulthood: the dismantling of support services

Gayle Munro, formerly Head of Research & Evidence at the National Children’s Bureau, writing in a personal capacity

9 min readJan 5, 2022

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Woman fastening wheelchair buckle for disabled child at home

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Reframing Childhood Past and Present

Why children’s rights approaches in policy and campaigns are under-utilised and how we can address…

Natalie Williams, Head of Policy and Public Affairs (Child Rights), CRAE, part of Just for Kids Law

15 min readNov 18, 2021

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Two children doing home school work together

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Where We Live Next

Why we need place-based “just transitions”

Ed Atkins

5 min readNov 11, 2021

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Where We Live Next

Fukushima, fishing and the future of coastal communities: can the clean-up of a nuclear disaster…

Dr Leslie Mabon

7 min readOct 28, 2021

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Fukushima, fishing and the future of coastal communities: can the clean-up of a nuclear disaster…

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Where We Live Next

Reclaiming London for communities and biodiversity

Matthew Ponsford explores National Park Cities and green resilience.

4 min readJun 7, 2021

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Reclaiming London for communities and biodiversity

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The British Academy
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Reframing Childhood Past and Present

The importance of place for early childhood language; is there more to early language development…

A provocation paper

10 min readApr 21, 2021

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The importance of place for early childhood language; is there more to early language development…

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The British Academy
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Reframing Childhood Past and Present

Is sustainable development bad news for children’s rights?

Professor Aoife Nolan outlines reasons why sustainable development goals may be bad news for child rights.

11 min readMar 16, 2021

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Is sustainable development bad news for children’s rights?

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