Residents Link to Learn in Newtown »
About 70 Birmingham Residents joined Resident University over the two days it spent at St George’s Community Hub in inner city Newtown. They included young people taking part in the Young Resident University who learned about using social media and film-making in carrying out research with the University.
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Birmingham Resident University is Chamberlain Forum’s shared and peer learning programme for the resident experts in Birmingham’s neighbourhoods – the people that live and work there. Our aim is to get 1000 people involved in learning and researching how to make neighbourhoods better places to live in Birmingham, England. The programme is supported by BeBirmingham [...]
Resident University: Influence Local Decisions »
Do you know the difference between an MP and a Councillor? What about a PCT and a Foundation Hospital; or an OCU and a ACC? And how are they all accountable to you? How does your local influencing know-how measure up? And what about your skills and your tactics for influencing? Birmingham’s Resident University moves on [...]
What Next After the Welfare State? »
With politicians from all sides facing up to making cuts in public spending, we’re asking whether a ‘welfare society’ could be a successor to the Welfare State? By investing in the capacity of communities to provide welfare themselves, could a future government save money and improve services? Phillip Blond speaks at the next Chamberlain Lecture on What Next – After the Welfare State? Wednesday November 18th at Balsall Heath Church Centre. Join him – and us…
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