by Russell Todd | 13 Feb, 2021 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 Sep, 2019 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 –...
by Russell Todd | 9 Feb, 2019 | Uncategorized
With news that NHS England is to create an ‘army’ of social prescribing link workers it is paramount that community development (CD) is at the heart of the concept. The Kings’ Fund says that social prescribing: “enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals...
by Russell Todd | 25 Nov, 2018 | Uncategorized
Some reflections on urban and rural poverty ahead of a podcast with Cwmni Bro Ffestiniog and Action in Caerau and Ely The next episode of The Community Development Podcast is one that’s been postponed many times but one I’m really keen to get ‘in the can’. I’m going...
