What role do local communities play in research?

Date of Lecture: 24 May 2022 About the Lecture: Dr Joe Penny will discuss his work researching the Local State’s response to the housing crisis with and for London tenants and Aude Vuilliomenet will share her experiences of working with communities in gardening activities and why collaborating with local organisations is essential for delivering her research. Dr Leah Lovett will discuss her experience developing partnerships with youth organisations including LBN Youth Empowerment and the Young V&A (formerly the V&A Museum of Childhood), and how the resulting collaborations have informed research into the uses of novel technologies for spatial storytelling. Joseph Cook will then explore the role of communities in ethnography, in particular how ethnographers can research with communities rather than on them, and will also highlight opportunities for community engagement that have stemmed out of the recent UCL Urban Lab Walks series he led throughout East London. About the Speakers: Dr Joe Penny, Lecturer in Global Urbanism at UCL Urban Laboratory Leah Lovett, Artist and Research Fellow at The Bartlett Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis Aude Vuilliomenet, PhD Student at Connected Environments Lab at The Bartlett CASA Joseph Cook, PhD student at Anthropology at UCL