Regeneration & Planning Conferences

Searching For The Impact Of Involvement: Evidence From NDC Areas

Bobby Duffy presented some of the initial findings from this paper, speaking alongside Dr Graham Gardner and Professor Hilary Russell at an event organised by Shared Intelligence 'What Is The Added Value Of The Community-Based Partnership Approach? Lessons from the New Deal for Communities programme and beyond'. The paper is due for publication in Autumn 2007.

Do People Really Care About Respect? pdf, 553KB

Anti-Social Behaviour and Respect are key issues for people working to improve regeneration areas. This presentation, part of the Respect for Real Conference organised by New Start Magazine and the Centre for Local Economic Studies (CLES), pulls together evidence on attitudes, key concerns and looks at how to improve perceptions. November 2005

 What Does Consultation Add? pdf, 76KB

This presentation looks at what people want from consultation and engagement, and what input they have into these processes. September 2005

 Perceptions Of Growth pdf, 707KB

Focusing on Growth Areas, this presentation for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now DCLG) looks at the key influences on views of local areas, with recommendations on how to communicate housing growth to local people. July 2005

 Measuring Impact pdf, 217KB

Slides from a conference organised by Neil Stewart Associates on the links between culture and sport and improving local areas. July 2005

 Liveability — Where Are We Now? pdf, 131KB

This presentation, given at the 2005 Ipsos-MORI Summer Conference, revisits our work on how people feel about their local areas, concentrating particularly on regeneration areas and making use of data from the New Deal for Communities Household Survey. June 2005

The Physical Capital report can be ordered from here: Liveability 2005 & Frontiers of Performance III

 What People Think of Regions pdf, 260KB

These slides look at both at the public and business attitudes' towards England's regions. February 2005

 Life Satisfaction, Trust And Services — The Importance Of Place pdf, 220KB

Presented at a conference for NHS Communications Directors, this presentation looks at the key influences on public satisfaction with services and the role that trust and place have to play. August 2004

 Ethnic Minority Achievement in Schools pdf, 107KB

Slides from a presentation given by Bobby Duffy at a Neil Stewart Associates conference examining ethnic minority educational achievement. September 2003

Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Initiative: The Consumer Perspective

The Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute was asked to talk at a conference on the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Initiative, run by the Building Research Establishment. This conference looked to provide some answers to the problems associated with creating sustainable urban housing, in light of the need to provide 3.8m new homes by 2016. The presentation focused on the consumer perspective, and presented data on whether either sustainable or urban living can be "sold" to the public in general, and what their main concerns will be.