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 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 | 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...
