In Summer 201
6 Becca and Professor Michael Depledge worked with the British Academy to hold one of the regional Where We Live Now project workshops in Cornwall. The results of the project have now been released.
The British Academy is the UK’s national body for the humanities and social sciences – the study of peoples,cultures and societies, past, present and future. It has recently focused on effective place-based policy making, considering how we can align the design and resourcing of policy at the most appropriate scale of place, in order to develop meaningful solutions, which improve people’s lives.
The summary of the Cornwall workshop and the two reports ‘Where We Live Now: Perspectives on place and policy‘ and ‘Where We Live Now: Making the case for place-based policy‘ are available on the British Academy’s Where We Live Now project website.
The reports conclude:
Place based policy-making offers some exciting new possibilities to reconnect public policy with our lived experience and the places and relationships we care about; and as a result, to deliver more meaningful and effective solutions…
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