New Report Published
Published: 29 January 2025
The programme's second report suggests a framework to embed people-centred approaches within place-based policies, practices and research. It is a call to work together across the place sector to deliver improved socio-economic outcomes for people and place.
We are pleased to share a new report from the Place-based Research Programme, 'Advancing People-Centred Place-Based Approaches', written by Professor Rebecca Madgin and Dr Michael Howcroft.
The report:
- offers a theoretical distinction between space and place and an exploration of how this evolves in policy and practice:
- provides an evidence base for how people-centred, place-based approaches can secure a range of socio-economic outcomes. We achieve this by building an understanding of the relationship between meanings, feelings, experiences and outcomes.
- introduces 'felt experiences' as an umbrella concept that interrogates how space becomes place – that is a geographical location invested with meaning.
In the final section of the report, we imagine what future place-based practice could look like if we centred meaning, feelings and experiences both within the process of place-based work and as an outcome of place-based policies and practices.
Moving forward, the programme will focus on understanding how the insights from this report can lead to embed people-centred approaches into place-based practice, research and policies. We welcome the opportunity to continue conversations that ensure future policies and practices can be tailored to meet the needs of places, people and contexts in ways that secure positive socio-economic outcomes.
You can read the full report here.
First published: 29 January 2025