ESRC/TSRC Policy Seminar in collaboration with Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations (GMCVO)

This seminar is free to attend but places are limited and registration is required. If you wish to attend, please email the ESRC Knowledge Exchange Team ( '+'knowledgeexchange@esrc.ac.uk' + ''; // --> ) by Friday 22nd June 2012.

Agenda

10.00               Registration

10.30               Welcome – Morning Chair: Chris Ford, Newcastle University Business                              School 

10.40               Academic Presentation – Angus McCabe, Senior Research Fellow,                                 TSRC 

11.00               Academic Presentation – Professor Marilyn Taylor, Emeritus Professor,                           University of the West of England 

11.20               Q&A                       

12.00              Lunch 

12.45               Introduction to afternoon session – Afternoon Chair: Stephen Little,                                 GMCVO 

12.50               Community Activist Perspectives

·       Peter Firth, the Mosses Centre

·       Dennis Minnis

13.15               Group discussion

14.00               Panel Session:

·       Chris Ford, Newcastle University Business School

·       Jess Steele, Locality

·       Chris Thean, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

·       Pamela Ball, Wigan and Leigh CVS

14.20               Group Discussion Feedback, Q&A and Open Discussion

 14.40               Academics’ response

14.50               Chair Summary & Close