The Community Development Podcast: Recent Episodes
Russell Todd
In this episode, Russell is joined by President of the International Association of Community Development (IACD) Anna Clarke to discuss its mission, work and networks. In particular, recorded while the COP26 climate emergency summit was being...
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In November 2020 an online article found its way to me by Associate Editor at Peace, Land and Bread, Christian Noakes called ‘Displacement of the Dispossessed: Community Development Under Capitalism’. The way it deconstructed gentrification and...
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In this episode Russell is joined by Rob Ashelford, Head of Nesta Cymru, upon the release of a report into the extent of data poverty in Wales and Scotland published by Nesta and Y Lab based...
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Back in June for episode #25 Russell caught up with Helen Griffiths and David Clague from St Mellons in east Cardiff to explore how they we adapting to life under the lockdown and how they were...
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Back in February 2016 Joseph Rowntree Foundation published the report Breaking the Links Between Ethnicity and Poverty in Wales by Duncan Holtham (from the People and Work Unit), Anna Nicholl and Chris Johnes. At the time...
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In the second part of a series looking at how Community Development is adapting to and tackling issues caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Russell chats first with Chris Johnes from Building Communities Trust (BCT) in Wales...
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Nick Andrews from the Wales School for Social Care Research at Swansea University, joins the podcast for the first time to discuss his work to bring research and practice together in social care systems.
Nick is a disciple of the Most Significant Change methodology that emphasises the value of storytelling and importance of giving people voice about what matters to them. It's a methodology that is just as applicable, I believe, to community development.
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During lockdown Russell reached out to the Community Development fraternity across the world to invite it to share its experiences of supporting communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of this Community Development and Covid-19 series...
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Russell is joined by Sharon Sweeney, from the University of Dundee’s student finance team who has recently finished a Masters degree, as part of which Sharon completed a dissertation on the role of social prescribing in...
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In this podcast Russell chats via skype to Mark McFeeters, Lecturer on Ulster University’s Community Youth Work degree, and Lauren McAreavey, a third year undergraduate on the course. Among other things they discuss: how youth work...
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Hot on the heels of the launch of the brand new Carnegie UK Trust report on Turnaround Towns in the UK, Russell is joined by Pippa Coutts, Carnegie’s Policy and Development Manager, to look at the...
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On 28 November I had the pleasure of dropping by the Oh What A Year! celebrations that Eden Communities Wales hosted at the award-winning social enterprise Big Moose Coffee Co. A range of projects were in...
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In this podcast Russell is joined by East Belfast-based community development practitioner Jonny Currie. Jonny talks about how the political sclerosis that has seen the suspension of Northern Ireland’s devolved assembly and government executive has affected...
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In this episode Russell is joined by Dr Rob Watson from Decentered Media (@DecenteredMedia) to look at, among other things, the role that community media plays in strengthening civil society and providing communities with a voice...
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In this podcast Russell chats with Dave Smith from Heritage Quay, Huddersfield University’s archive service and considers community development in an ‘alternative’ context: sporting heritage and rugby league supporters Dave was involved in co-producing the national...
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In this podcast, the first to draw on community development practice in the United States, Russell is joined via Skype by Moses S Dixon, a doctorate student at State University of New York in Binghamton, to...
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In this podcast Russell is joined by Becky Harford who is one of the founders of Benthyg a ‘library of things’ in Rumney, Cardiff, possibly the first such library of things in Wales. Benthyg is Welsh...
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In this podcast Russell is joined by Dave Horton from Action in Caerau and Ely (ACE) and Ceri Cunnington from Cwmni Bro Ffestiniog to discuss how their contrasting geography shapes approaches to community development…or not. Caerau and...
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On Saturday 24 November a number of community media experts and practitioners convened in Leicester, England to discuss community media and why the social gain mission matters. Drs Rob Watson and Katie Moylan hosted the event which...
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Having recently started working with community benefit society Indycube – who provide coworking spaces across Wales and beyond as well as offering a trade union for the self-employed – I was struck by a fascinating article in ...
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