New Book! Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations

The book we at ESB have contributed has been published and is now available - Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations. You can find full details at https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/9781350430754/

We are in Part II: Collaboration
5. Critical Reflections on Community Development Responses to Covid, Val Harris, Jim Robertson and Kalbir Shukra (The Endorsement and Quality, Standards Board for Community Development Learning (England)), with response from Noel Irwin (Northern College Manchester, UK)

Our chapter started life as our contribution to the  PALYCW online annual conference in 2021 and was based on examples of community development undertaken during the pandemic. This was then supplemented with further research into students experiences of their learning and programme delivery during the pandemic years and takes a look at the challenges that face community development practitioners in the changing world  that we have emerged into.

While the chapter was written by the named authors, some of the original research was undertaken by Jonathan Hymans who died before the book was completed and who is much missed by us.