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Our Edinburgh Neighbourhood
This is the name of the Edinburgh part of the Community Consultation and Quality of Life Project. We're proudly hosted by the University of Edinburgh
Irina Tavera (Community Partnership Manager)
Irina is our Community Partnership Manager. Irina works for the University of Edinburgh and liaises with the many communities and stakeholders our project would like to partner with. Irina wishes to engage and learn from community representatives to create an efficient and replicable engagement model for community consultation
John Brennan (Edinburgh Lead)
John works at the University of Edinburgh and is Lead for Our Edinburgh Neighbourhood which is part of the Four Nations Community Consultation and Quality of Life Project. John works in the field of sustainable design and researches how communities and building users interact with their environments.
Ruchit Purohit (Research Assistant: Reading)
Ruchit is Research Associate for the Community Consultation and Quality of Life project and is based at the University of Reading. He co-ordinates all our work across the Four Nations.
Ruchit is an architect, urban designer and development practitioner. He has previously worked and researched on projects ranging from community-led regeneration, community led-heritage and community-led design.
Flora Samuel (Lead Investigator)
Flora is the lead principal of the CCQoL Project across the four nations; England (Reading), Wales (Cardiff), Scotland (Edinburgh) and Northern Ireland (Belfast).
Flora is a Professor at the University of Reading. She was the first RIBA Vice President for Research and is lead author of the Social Value Toolkit for Architects (RIBA, 2020) and an industry expert on social value.
Stephanie Edwards (Project Partner)
Stephanie Edwards is an Architect, Urbanist and Cofounder of Urban Symbiotics – an insight and research led multi-disciplinary design practice that focuses on the user experience to innovate architecture, masterplanning and the public realm. She continues to focus on delivering social value through a variety of project types and scales to facilitate the building of inclusive, equitable and progressive communities.
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh is a partner institution for the Community Consultation and Quality of Life project that's known in Scotland as Our Edinburgh Neighbourhood. The University of Edinburgh team will use data from this website in their research.
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The University of Reading
The University of Reading is the overall lead for the Community Consultation and Quality of Life Project. The University of Reading team associated with this project nationally will use data from this website in their research.
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Quality of Life Foundation (Project Partner)
The Quality of Life Foundation is addressing the changes that can be made across the development industry to ensure that homes are acquired, planned, constructed, and managed to actively provide a better quality of life for everyone. As a partner in this project, the Quality of Life Foundation team will have access to data from this website for research purposes.
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Commonplace
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