Improving community partnerships in local policy through enhanced participation for marginalised groups.

该项目旨在评估社区参与英国地方政策的情况。它将把重点放在社区安全伙伴关系上，特别注意纳入BAME和其他边缘化群体。它将使用焦点小组和研讨会从伦敦南部和南安普顿的两个不同种族的人口中收集数据。这将有助于分析参与的程度及其与地方政策如何制定和感知的相互关系。该项目将审查是否可能有更有效的方式让被边缘化的社区参与进来，从而加强政策举措的影响和效力。临时项目伙伴将包括塔维斯托克研究所和兰贝斯、克罗伊登和南安普顿的区域SAFER社区伙伴关系。除了博士论文，调查结果还将被用来制作政策简报文件，通过与项目合作伙伴的合作活动传播给政策制定者和更广泛的公众。我在社区参与方面的专业经验以及在话语分析和社会凝聚力方面的学术记录独特地使我能够将跨学科的方法引入到这个项目中。因此，通过将理论和实践结合起来应用于项目提案中进一步概述的当代政策，我非常擅长解决边缘化和社区安全问题。

This project aims to evaluate community participation in UK local policy. It will focus on community safetypartnerships, with particular attention to the inclusion of BAME and other marginalised groups. It will usefocus groups and workshops to collect data from two ethnically diverse populations in South London andSouthampton. This will inform analysis of the extent of participation and its interrelation with how localpolicy is formulated and perceived. The project will examine whether there may be more effective waysto engage marginalised communities and thereby strengthen the impact and effectiveness of policyinitiatives. Provisional project partners will include the Tavistock Institute and regional safer communitypartnerships in Lambeth, Croydon and Southampton. In addition to the PhD thesis, findings will be usedto produce policy briefing documents to be disseminated to policy makers and the wider public viacollaborative events with project partners.My professional experience in community participation and academic track record in discourse analysisand social cohesion uniquely positions me to bring an interdisciplinary approach to this project.Therefore, I am aptly skilled to address marginalisation and community safety, by applying theory andpractice together to contemporary policy as further outlined in the project proposal.