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Infographic from the report Realising Just Cities: An Overview of Activity 2016–2019

Realising Just Cities needs innovative funding -- reporting back from RJC UK

“Innovative funding and enabling institutions are needed to support and nurture dedicated researchers to work in partnerships to realise just cities.” This is among the conclusions of Realising Just Cities: An Overview of Activity 2016–2019, a new report which also demonstrates what becomes possible when such support is in place.

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Contested Knowledges for Just Urban Futures

Contested Knowledges for Just Urban Futures is a one-day seminar organised by Professors Tim May and Beth Perry at the University of Sheffield, which will take place on Tuesday 10th December at Channing Hall in Sheffield. The seminar is aimed at university academics engaged in urban reearch and practice and aims to explore the following question:

How does our commitment to just urban futures specifically manifest in practice, in the context of the wider co-productive turn and interest in different ideas about what it means to be an ‘engaged’ academic?

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Contested Knowledges for Just Urban Futures

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 10:00 to 17:00
Channing Hall, 45 Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 2LG

How does our commitment to just urban futures specifically manifest in practice, in the context of the wider co-productive turn and interest in different ideas about what it means to be an ‘engaged’ academic?

If you are a university academic undertaking urban research and engagement and would like to attend this free seminar, please RSVP to v.l.simpson@sheffield.ac.uk with name, university and a couple of lines on your urban research and engagement activity.

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Photograph of deliberative session from the Care at Home Inquiry with logos

Care at Home Inquiry: Feedback event with GM Health & Social Care Partnership

In April 2019, the Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership (GMHSC) hosted a feedback event to look at how recommendations from our Care at Home Inquiry inform the shape of their Transformation programme.

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An Evening with Jam and Justice - How can we govern cities differently? (Banner image)

An Evening with Jam & Justice

Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - 17:30 to 20:00
Ziferblat, Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HW

The Jam and Justice Action Research Collective will be sharing what we have learned and celebrating the outcomes of our projects in Greater Manchester.

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A circle of people participate in Jam and Justice's Care at Home Inquiry, plus a composite of sponsors logos - Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, NW ADASS, Shared Future CIC and Jam & Justice

Deliberative Commissioning

Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - 13:00 to 17:00
People's History Museum

Person-centred approaches in co-producing health and social care policy

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Exploring an English Co-Production Network - the video

Back in March, Beth Perry and others from Jam and Justice took part in an event exploring the potential for an English Co-Production Network.

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Take part: Survey on Leading Co-Production

Do you have experience of co-production in partnership with a university? If so, we'd like to hear more about your notions of good leadership.

Who leads, for what purpose and how? The question of leadership in coproduction is often assumed or ignored. Jam and Justice researchers want to understand where people with experience of co-production agree and differ on what constitutes good leadership. To help us study this effectively, we've prepared a survey intended for those who have been part of co-production projects involving a university partner.

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New paper on the University as a Site of Knowledge Production published by the Institute of Advanced Study

“Those outside the confines of research communities and who are frequently marginalised from public consideration need to be more involved:” says Mistra Urban Futures’ Tim May, in an article recently published by the

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Methodological Issues and Emotional Labour in Co-Produced Research

Report from a Workshop with Early Career Researchers at University of Sheffield, 4-5 December 2018

--Tim May, Beth Perry and Charlotte Spring (with thanks to participants who gave their time).

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Young People and Co-Production: Exchanging Knowledge, Reflecting on Practice

What happens when practitioners and researchers who share an interest in co-producing with children and young people come together to reflect on practice, passions, and what might be done together?

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Mistra Urban Futures Conference 2018, Cape Town

‘Comparative Co-production’ was the theme of the 2018 Mistra Urban Futures conference in Cape Town earlier this month, which was attended by members of the Urban Institute’s Realising Just Cities team.

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How do we assess the value of co-production? New article in Nature sets out challenges.

Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson and Beth Perry look at how we assess the value of co-production in an article in Nature

The theory behind co-production is that it generates better solutions to difficult problems. But how do we measure this in practice?

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Coproducing Urban Governance Special Edition Published

There are many critiques of existing forms of urban governance as not fit for purpose. However, there is just as much contestation over what alternatives might look like. Coproduction is proposed as a response to address complex wicked issues. Achieving coproduction is a highly complex and daunting task. Bottom up approaches to the initiation of coproduced governance are seen as fruitful, including exemplification of utopian alternatives though local practices.

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Why are there no Community Land Trusts in Greater Manchester?

Community land trusts (CLTs) have been celebrated as a potential model for neighbourhood revival in areas of disinvestment and neglect. In the face of concerns about communities in many cities being displaced by rising land values, advocates hope that CLTs can also provide a way of enabling existing residents to remain in their homes and neighbourhoods.

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Our Projects

All our projects seek to contribute to realising just cities through developing more participatory processes, valuing citizens knowledges and supporting fairer outcomes for different groups.

Culture Heritage and Citizenship

How can we value everyday understandings of place, culture and heritage? These projects support citizens’ own understandings of the value of formal and informal cultural practices, memories and meanings of place.

Democracy and Engagement

How can decision-making processes be redesigned to include more voices and place citizens at the heart of policy-making? These projects directly seek to support more inclusive and co-productive governance within city-regions.

International Collaborations

This cluster of projects highlights those that specifically involve international partners across the Mistra Urban Futures network and beyond.

Local Management and Organisations

What are the changing roles and relationships between different organisations involved in the governance of city-regions? These projects have a specific focus on the roles of institutions as change agents in realising just cities, including local government, universities, partnership bodies, trade unions and third section organisations.

Neighbourhoods and Communities

How can we empower neighbourhoods and communities to develop their own capacities for social and economic change? These projects all have a strong focus on spatial and social justice through working at the neighbourhood scale.

Planning and Environment

How can citizens be involved in complex topics such as climate change, environment and planning? These projects seek to understand and map how different kinds of expertise can inform spatial planning and environmental strategy development and implementation.

Economy and Entrepreneurship

How can we support alternative economic practices and social entrepreneurship? These projects have a specific focus on spending decisions and new forms of economic organising.

Digital Tools and Techniques

To what extent can digital technologies support citizen participation, or do they create new forms of exclusion? These projects include a consideration of the role and value of digital platforms, tools and techniques in enhancing democratic engagement.

Methods and Practices

What methods and practices are needed to support transformative urban research? These projects have a specific focus on innovative methodologies, methods and mindsets, to test and learn about what works to support coproductive research and governance.

Greater Manchester

These projects are all being undertaken in Greater Manchester, North West of England.

Sheffield

These projects are all being undertaken in the Sheffield city-region, in the Yorkshire and Humber region of England.

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