For episode 50 Russell heads to Cardiff's Grangetown district in the south of the city to chat with two of the founders of Grange Pavilion's Youth Forum (GPYF) - Nirushan Sudarsan and Shoruk Nekeb.

They tell the story of GPYF's origins as a project within the wider Community Gateway project in Grangetown, a long-term community-university civic mission project. They also give a flavour of some of its activities and how GPYF acts as a crucible for discussions about global citizenship, resistance and organising for young people.

We also hear from other members of GPYF: Eleeza, Mahima and Amira.

You can find out more Grange Pavilion Youth Forum:

instagram.com/gpyouthforum/

https://grangepavilion.wales/youth-forum-page/

To learn more about the Community Gateway project:

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/community/our-local-community-projects/community-gateway

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My book Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Twelvetrees) is available to order from Policy Press: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

For this episode the podcast returns to Ireland and specifically the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland at Derry where Caitriona Mullan is based, and which has featured in the academic work of Dr Giada Lagana.

Caitriona is a Derry native and has specialised in cross-border collaboration and policy across Europe in her career in European Union (EU) Affairs, Regional Development, Local Government, Health & Social Care and Communities policy.

Giada is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University. Giada's 2021 book 'The European Union and the Northern Ireland Peace Process' on Palgrave outlines the European Union’s approach to conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. It is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-59117-5

Giada and Catriona discuss the importance of not only the EU in the peace process in Northern Ireland but the role of communities and community leaders, in particular women, in ensuring that that policy framework is complemented by community dialogue and collaboration.

You can follow Catriona at:

x.com/catrionamullan

linkedin.com/in/caitriona-mullan-4a46234

You can follow Giada at:

linkedin.com/in/giada-lagana-035474159

https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/laganag

The Irish Association of Contemporary European Studies website is: https://www.iaces.ie/

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My book Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Twelvetrees) is available to order from Policy Press: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

A quick introduction to a short podcast series all about the CAER Heritage project in Cardiff, civic mission and how universities and communities can work together.

Subscribe to https://soundcloud.com/nccpe-bristol where the series will be hosted by the National Centre for Co-ordinating Public Engagement (NCCPE).

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In this episode Russell is joined by Hannah Kitchen Kirby and Clare MacGillivray to discuss human rights and to provide a helpful insight into a right-based approach in practice. Between them they provide the lead pair of articles in IACD's March 2025 edition of Practice Insights which is dedicated to the theme of rights:

https://www.iacdglobal.org/practice_insights

Hannah was until very recently working in Leith in Cables Wynd House, better known as the 'Banana Flats'. She explains how a rights-based approach was at the heart of efforts to secure investment into the housing. Edinburgh City Council recently announced Cables Wynd House and neighbouring Links View House will receive £69 million of investment, including the provision of lifts which had originally been omitted from plans but thanks to campaigning are now included (https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cableswynd-linksview).

Clare MacGillivray from the organisation Making Rights Real, provides an overview of her work with Gypsy Travellers at Double Dykes near Perth.

You can follow Clare and Hannah:

https://makingrightsreal.org.uk/

linkedin.com/company/making-rights-real

uk.linkedin.com/in/clare-macgillivray-64382a95

bsky.app/profile/makingrightsreal.bsky.social

https://www.bethanychristiantrust.com/

bsky.app/profile/bethanychristiantrust.com

facebook.com/BethanyChristianTrust1

instagram.com/bethanychristiantrust

linkedin.com/company/bethany-christian-trust

Photo credit: Hannah Kitchen Kirby. It features Cables Wynd House residents at the City Chambers in Edinburgh ahead of giving a deputation to the full council calling for new lifts.

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In this episode, Russell drops by Cardiff University for a chat with Dr Dave Wyatt, Reader in Civic Mission and Community Action in the university's School of History, Archaeology and Religion.

Dave co-founded CAER Heritage with archaeologist Olly Davis and community development professional Dave Horton. The team have been co-producing heritage projects in the Ely and Caerau districts of west Cardiff for well over a decade now winning numerous awards along the way.

In this episode Dave reflects how academics on the project have learned from local development trust, Action in Caerau and Ely and applied community co-production strategies to discovering new knowledge about the past for the benefit of all.

The spoken extracts and sound effects are taken from:

CAER Hedz: https://youtu.be/xfDmONyfifM?si=tonSRcMay_MR7EXk

Time Team

BBC Sound Effects archive

You can keep abreast of all things CAER Heritage at:

www.caerheritage.org/

facebook.com/CAERHeritage

x.com/CAERHeritage

x.com/SHAREWyatt

Details of the Exploring the Past adult learners pathway that Dave refers to can be found here: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/part-time-courses-for-adults/pathways-to-a-degree/pathway-to-a-degree-in-history-archaeology-or-religion

There is also this YouTube Video about the courses:

https://youtu.be/ssQkvxxoqjo?si=xePjS8hYlq6faLHU

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For a second successive episode the podcast visits Scotland, with Russell chatting with Naomi Ross and Nikki Thomas of Fallin Community Voice, a community organisation based in the former coalmining village of Fallin near Stirling.

Centred around a community garden project, Naomi and Nikki explain how Fallin Community Voice are facilitating discussions about community responses to the climate crisis. The organisation's activities provide safe and accessible 'entry points' to the matter via the range of wider community action that the garden project has stimulated.

You can follow Fallin Community Voice at its website and social media:

https://fallincommunityvoice.org/

facebook.com/groups/145744717529266

instagram.com/fallincommunitygarden/

instagram.com/fallincommunityvoice/

x.com/FallinVoice

And you can donate to their Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/fcv

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In episode 44, Russell chats to Katharine Wheeler, Development Director of The Stove Network in Dumfries, Scotland and lead for the creative placemaking network, What We Do Now.

She talks about The Stove's approach to placing artistic and creative practice at the heart of building communities and designing places; the Scottish policy framework and context in which this takes place; and how arts practitioners and place-makers are building capacity and sharing learning through a networked approach.

In the discussion Katharine refers to a document called 'A Creative Placemaking Approach'. It can be read here: https://whatwedonow.scot/resource/a-creative-placemaking-approach/

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You can follow Katharine at:

www.katharinewheeler.com

Instagram.com/wheelakat

Twitter.com/KWheelArt

LinkedIn - Katharine Wheeler

You can follow What We Do Now at:

https://whatwedonow.scot/

Instagram.com/whatwedonow.scot

Twitter.com/WWDN_scot

You can follow The Stove at:

https://thestove.org/ (where you can sign up The Stove newsletter)

Instagram.com/stovenetwork

Twitter.com/TheStovies

LinkedIn - The Stove Network

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In this episode Russell is joined by the guest who appeared on the very first episode of this podcast, Alan Twelvetrees, to shamelessly plug the brand new book they have co-written on Policy Press:

The sixth edition of 'Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide'

Alan helmed the first five editions that increasingly came to feature contributions from a range of CD writers and practitioners, but with the new edition - the first time it's been published on Policy Press - Russell was asked to contribute a chapter on digital and mobile technologies in CD, and to place community work in a futures context, i.e., what might CWk look like in the event of there being, for instance, universal basic income, or a 4 day week? In the end his role evolved beyond these contributions.

**For a limited period of time the book is available with a 20% discount. Simply listen to the episode where a code will be shared for you to use at checkout:

https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

Russell's social media links are, as usual, below; while you can follow Alan on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/alan-twelvetrees-640b00248

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In this episode Paul Lachapelle and Charlie McConnell continue talking us through what they call 'The Seven Deadly Sins of Community Development'.

Paul, from Montana State University, and Charlie are both former Presidents of the International Association for Community Development and co-wrote a recent paper on the Seven Deadly Sins published in issue 3 of the Journal of the Community Development Society:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15575330.2023.2217883

The first part of the discussion can be found here:

https://soundcloud.com/the-cd-podcast/seven-deadly-sins-of-cd-pt1?si=2c01c0d9dc434f5d9006c9ef15c3a4ab&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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In this episode, the first of a two-parter, Paul Lachapelle, from Montana State University, and Charlie McConnell - both former Presidents of the International Association for Community Development - discuss their recent paper 'The Seven Deadly Sins of Community Development' published in issue 3 of the Journal of the Community Development Society:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15575330.2023.2217883

In this first part, we discuss:

Anti-expertism

Localism and self-help

An overemphasis upon social capital

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