Participation for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: a one day workshop

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a global plan of action “for people, planet and prosperity”, encompassing both social and environmental concerns. Participation of all members of society is central to meeting and monitoring the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

There is a wealth of existing knowledge around innovative ways of engaging with community members and stakeholders at a range of scales, in a variety of socio-economic contexts, and with a diversity of methods from more passive big data approaches, to mass participation citizen science to participatory action research.

This one day event will explore how methods across this spectrum of approaches can be used to meet and monitor, and engage people with, the SDGs, as well as find synergies between them.

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Programme

0930-1000                   Registration, Tea & Coffee

1000-1010                   Welcome and introduction

Speakers include:

Hilary Geoghegan, Ruth Evans and Sally Lloyd-Evans (Reading), Sarah West and Rachel Pateman (York), and a representative from the Participatory Geographies Research Group

1010-1015                   Lessons from Facing the Future 2016 Conference on Interdisciplinarity and the Sustainable Development Goals

Speaker: Sam Poskitt, University of Reading

1015-1100                   Sustainable Development Goals: what do we know about them?                  

1100-1200                   How are people connected to the SDGs through research?

                                    Speakers include:

• Youth participation and the SDGs
  • Marion A. Osieyo, Independent Researcher
• School children and the SDGs
  • Sarah Staunton-Lamb, Independent Researcher
• Bereavement with children and families in urban Senegal and policy implications for SDGs
  • Ruth Evans, University of Reading

1200-1215                   Academic Groups and the SDGs

• Participation Lab
• Participatory Geographies Research Group

1215-1315                   Lunch

1315-1415                   Methodological approaches to collecting data and engaging people

Speakers include:

• Citizen science as a flexible toolbox of for delivering the SDGs
  • Jade Lauren Cawthray-Syms, University of Dundee
• Extreme citizen science: analysis and visualization
  • Muki Haklay, UCL
• Workshops as a method
  • Marion A. Osieyo, Independent Researcher
• Global youth work as a participatory methodology
  • Stuart Wroe, University of Cumbria
• Digital and face-to-face engagement processes in democratic innovation
  • Sonia Bussu, UCL

1415-1430                   Tea/coffee

1430-1530                   Taking things forward (1): challenges and opportunities for ethics and funding                

1430-1515       Ethics

Rachel Pateman and Sarah West, Stockholm Environment Institute (York)

1515-1545       Securing funding for participatory activities

Muki Haklay, UCL

1545-1630                   Taking things forward (2): whole group discussion, and closing remarks

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