Monitoring, Evaluating & Impact Symposium #2 meets ESRC New Practices for New Publics Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 September at City-centre Campus, University of Brighton

Lecture Theatre 105, 154 Edward Street, City Centre Campus, University of Brighton, BN2 0JG

Join us for this exciting symposium that brings together a workshop from the ESRC ‘New Practices for New Publics series’ and the opportunity to learn and reflect with the MEI partnership and voluntary and community sector colleagues on one day.  

 Book on to morning OR afternoon session. Or join us for the whole day.

Full programme here: MEI symposium programme 2016

 Part 1: New Practices for New Publics ESRC Seminar, 10am – 12.45 pm

Keynote speaker: Dr Edgar Whitley (London School of Economics)

In addition to the MEI Symposium and in collaboration with the ESRC ‘New Practices for New Publics’ seminar series we are able to offer an opportunity for VCS groups, academics and commissioners to listen to a talk and take part in a participative discussion on the ethical and legal significance of ‘privacy’ for VCS data practice with Dr Edgar Whitley from the London School of Economics.  We will use Edgar’s recent research on ‘dynamic consent’ in health research to explore ‘data practices’ and privacy issues relevant to citizens in communities.

Edgar is an academic from the London School of Economics who is a specialist in information rights and privacy.  He Coordinated the influential LSE Identity Project on the UK’s proposals to introduce biometric identity cards; proposals that were scrapped following the 2010 General Election.

There will be coffee and networking from 10.00am and the seminar will start at 10.45am. Free lunch will be offered afterwards (12.30-1.30).  The MEI symposium will take place as advertised from 1.30 – 4.30.

Booking details below. For more information on New Practices for New Publics seminar series: http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/newpracticesfornewpublics/

Part 2: MEI Symposium, 1.30pm – 4.30pm

Our second Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact (MEI) Symposium will include:

• an update on activities by the MEI Partnership
• presentations from voluntary/community organisations on good data practice
• exploration of how this can work for all stakeholders in the funding cycle
• the opportunity to development our toolkit on good practice

Join us for lunch at 12.45pm and the session will start at 1.30pm.

The MEI Partnership was formed in June 2014 in response to a capacity building need identified by voluntary and community organisations in Brighton and Hove. The partnership was initiated by Community Works, brokered by Community University Partnership Programme and responded to by the University of Brighton School of Applied Social Science. The partnership has brought together academic knowledge of data collection, analysis and research ethics with intelligence and current experience of sector needs to develop a capacity-building approach that enables community practitioner expertise and experience to come to the foreground.

For more details the MEI Partnership: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/meicommunity/

Booking details

Both parts of this event are open to all and will be of interest to community practitioners, commissioners, funders, researchers and students. You can book onto one part or both.

 

To book onto this event: bit.ly/MEIbooking2016

 

For more information: cupp@brighton.ac.uk