30th July Sandits
WEDNESDAY 30th JULY - 12-2pm - working lunch
We are running the following workshops AT Central Hall Coventry please email india.holme@warwick.ac.uk AND coventrycollaboraction@warwick.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Managing Expectations:
We are bringing people together to discuss shared interests and ideas around these themes and across research, policy, creativity, innovation and most importantly IMPACT, in it's broadest sense - but also at it's core - CHANGE.
We want teams of changemakers, fixers, doers and seers. The weavers, the connectors and the creators - of knowledge, interventions, solutions and CHANGE.
However, we cannot guarantee that all conversations on the day will lead to funded projects, or even the intended or discussed changes. Whilst scaffolding, co-ordination and development support will be offered to teams over the summer to further develop their projects there is no specific funding allocated to these sandpits.
We do however plan on sharing potentially relevant, competitively awarded University of Warwick funds, and external funding sources beyond Warwick.
We are aiming for 6-10 per team. With teams being a mixture of already fully of partially formed as they join the event. India and Marie are helping to curate teams where required.
Workshop 5 & 6
**A broader conversation due to overlapping broad themes of safety, belonging and collaboration. *We are looking to combine elements of this across one now broader, interlinked discussion...Safety and our City: Emotional, Financial and more - what does it mean to feel safe?
How do we work together to help increase feelings of safety across our communities?
- From teenagers who don't want to enter parts of the city, to people fleeing domestic violence, those who feel trapped due to lack of financial security.
- From kids in schools who experience misogyny and social media harassment, to women's partners preventing them from accessing their own online medical information...
- Sometimes people don't feel safe, some communities may be more likely to experience actual and/or perceived unsafety.
- We're interested in research, connection and innovation around how further understand and improve feelings of safety across different individuals, communities and themes.
Workshop 8 - RETROFITTING AND RETROFIT ROCKS
Working with Lory Barile, and others, we will discuss continued collaborative work around the increasing the uptake of retrofitting measures amongst lower income homes, who qualify for grants, across Coventry and Warwickshire. This is a much more specific and focussed workshop due to the nature of the project, having already received funding and building a body of work for a couple a years.
If we cannot find a good balance of diverse representation from across our CollaborACTION Community (old and new) - with their invited colleagues and collaborators - then we will delay some of the sandpits to allow further time for pre-sandpit team development and/or to change around/abandon the theme and then better reflect the interests of our community.
Please email INDIA AND MARIE if you would like more information or to enquire about joining one of the discussions - india.holme@warwick.ac.uk AND also include coventrycollaboraction@warwick.ac.uk
Thank you so much for being part of, or joining our community.