We work across multiple resident groups including:
In 2021 CCC received a civic fellowship grant from the Institute of Community Studies (Young Foundation) to pilot a training programme for community-based researchers on the Campsbourne Estate and agree a collective research agenda.
This programme had several aims:
- To develop a knowledge bank of priority issues for the estate
- To build research capacity so that residents can control research agendas and use a range of approaches to develop their own projects as well as collaborating with others
- To start to map the different groups of residents on the estate (in order to ensure genuine inclusivity in research and action)
- To agree some priorities for research and action
Using a 3-stage process, the training moves from the self (exploring our own needs, priorities and knowledge assets through auto-ethnography and arts-based participatory research) to the other (exploring the challenges of difference, representation, conflict and consensus through peer research and survey methods) and finally to collective action (through action research). You can read more about this project here.
Campsbourne Community Collective 