Abstract
Many policy interventions are ostensibly designed to achieve system change – from the area-based initiatives of the Blair years to social prescribing and energy transitions. But do systems actually change? This seminar brings together learning from different spheres of CRESR research, spanning neighbourhood renewal, energy futures, green spaces and the civic role of universities, examining whether system change is possible and under what conditions it can happen.
Biographies
Professor Aimee Ambrose’s research focusses how energy transitions through time have impacted lived experience in both intended and unintended ways.
Sarah Pearson is Dean of Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at Sheffield Hallam University and Director of the UKRI Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness at CRESR. She has substantial experience in the evaluation of major place-based community regeneration programmes, including systems-based evaluation approaches. Her research interests are in the role of communities and civil society organisations in delivering place-based change.
Alice Perkins is a PhD researcher within CRESR, focusing on the long-term legacies of resident-led community regeneration initiatives.
Julian Dobson’s research focuses on place-based change in complex systems, and spans green spaces and natural environments, the future of town and city centres, and the civic role of universities.
