CityFuture: Completed projects
Building Stronger Communities Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks
Project Theme: Community Renewal
Funded by: NSW Department of Housing
Commenced: February 2006
Completed: November 2007
Project Leader: Professor Bill Randolph, b.randolph@unsw.edu.au, Doctor Simon Pinnegar, s.pinnegar@unsw.edu.au
Description:
City Futures to lead Community Renewal Evaluation Partnership
The NSW Department of Housing and City Futures Research Centre have announced the development of a Community Regeneration Evaluation and Research Partnership. The key focus of this Partnership is to develop a Community Regeneration Monitoring and Evaluation framework and a set of protocols for an ongoing partnership to involve future collaboration and joint initiatives related to community regeneration and social housing estates in the areas of research, data collection, policy analysis and student education. The Partnership will also include researchers from the Social Policy Research Centre and the School of Social Work ,both at UNSW.
Community Regeneration is the NSW Department of Housing's new strategy to build
strong and sustainable communities in neighborhoods with high proportions of
disadvantaged social housing tenants. The project will target five priority
estates in the first instance. The aim of the Research Partnership will develop
a multidisciplinary approach with the capacity to draw on expertise across a
broad range of interconnected social, cultural, economic and environmental issues.
This project parallels the research City Futures is currently undertaking for
the Department through a recently awarded ARC Linkage Grant which will develop
an evaluation methodology for the urban renewal program. Two APAI PhD Scholarships
for the latter project will shortly be advertised.
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