Why participatory social policy now?

What are the big issues for social policy today and what relationship does a participatory approach have to these?

Policy Press in association with Peter Beresford of Shaping Our Lives is launching a new series of free webinars on participatory social policy. This first event examines this approach to social policy, questioning traditional ones and looking at what possibilities this offers for the future.

Panel:

Bini Araia, Director, The Other Perspective CIC.

Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford.

Ruth Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University.

Josephine Ocloo, Senior Researcher and Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellow, King's College London.

Fiona Williams, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds.

The event was chaired by Peter Beresford OBE, Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives. He has a longstanding track record of work in the field of participation and citizen involvement as academic, service user, researcher, educator and activist.

Find out more about the books:
Both of Josephine Ocloo’s books are open access and can be found here:

0:00 - Introduction
6:23 - Fiona Williams, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds
13:18 - Josephine Ocloo, Senior Researcher, King's College London
25:27 - Bini Araia, Director, The Other Perspective CIC
32:50 - Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
43:07 - Q&A
46:36 - Ruth Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett
54:44 - Q&A continued
1:17:02 - Conclusion

[citygasbatteryriot]

Great gathering.

Ruth @1:12:12.. Well, everyone.. Brehon Law, which is/was civil. Ground up. No A4 required.
Where else would you find advocacy (that isn't incompetent or corrupt) and some social justice..?


Seamus Harahan