In this blog, Shaun and Luke talk about the emergence of a new cohort of highly political and deeply intellectual young people across our cities – a new urban intelligentsia – which the social sector ignores at its peril.
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Shaun Danquah and Marcus Tayebwa explore the prevalence and complexity of medical scepticism in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, and talk about the need for community-led research to effectively understand this ever-increasing scepticism across the urban locale, in the current context of the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine.
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In this think piece, co-authored by Shaun Danquah, Marcus Tayebwa and Muhammed Rauf, our three team members reflect on an important and impactful year in their respective journey’s, navigating the ever-evolving world of Community Research and beyond.
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In this blog, Shaun Danquah and Paul Addae look at the inequalities of environmental engagement and impact across the urban locale. They explore the reasons why the issue doesn’t resonate with Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and discuss why a dramatic shift is needed on people who should be involved in driving the environmental agenda forward.
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Community research is an urgent necessity in the COVID era, but how can we move from exploitative extraction of local knowledge to genuinely collaborative research?
The problem is not that young people don’t have what the creative and digital sectors need, the problem is that the sectors aren’t seeing what is there.
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In this short series of blogs we briefly introduce three of our biggest loves and three of our biggest worries, alternating between them. We’re reflecting critically on ourselves and our own work as much as anybody else’s: the worries we present are things that have concerned us about our own projects, as much as other organisations’.
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