by Russell Todd | 22 Apr, 2022 | Community Development
Early in the first UK lockdown I reached out to the Community Development sector to see if anyone was interested in sharing their reflections for The Community Development Podcast about how practitioners were responding to the demands of the pandemic and the impact of...
by Russell Todd | 13 Feb, 2021 | Community Development
I’m thrilled to finally be able to post links to a piece of research I’ve been involved with over the last two years. It would have been completed sooner but for the pandemic. However, a silver lining to this difficult time has been seeing community anchor...
by Russell Todd | 23 Jun, 2020 | Community Development
A while back a tweet flashed before my eyes via the twitter account I co-supervise on behalf of a community group I’m involved with in my corner of Cardiff. Usually, such tweets are related to the local park that we are Friends of and overwhelmingly tend to reflect...
by Russell Todd | 25 Nov, 2019 | Community Development
I write this en route home to Cardiff from north Wales where I have spent the day with workers on a pair of parallel community-based employability programmes that operate in many Welsh communities: Communities For Work and Communities For Work Plus – CFW(+). I have...
by Russell Todd | 25 Sep, 2019 | Community Development
I attended an event in a sodden Cardiff yesterday hosted by the city’s Life Sciences Hub at which PR agency Claremont were outlining some of their work to around co-production and nudge theory to inform behavioural change campaigns (such as smoking cessation or 5 A...
by Russell Todd | 8 Apr, 2019 | Community Development
On 2nd April Russell welcomed Dr Rob Watson from Decentered Media to Cardiff, which provided the opportunity to convert what had been to date a digital interaction into an ‘analogue’ one. We ramble through our respective backgrounds and areas of specialisms –...
