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		<title>BEHIND THE HEADLINES OF THE NoW WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE COALITION&#8217;S REFORM PROGRAMME ?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/15/behind-the-headlines-of-the-now-what-is-happening-to-the-coalitions-reform-programme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor John Diamond (University&#8217;s Centre for Local Policy Studies) looks at two important developments in the Coalition&#8217;s plans which are (arguably) more important than who owns a national newspaper: &#8221; The headlines for the past 10 days have been dominated by the phone hacking scandal and the fall out from that. But, really whilst there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Community resilience: managing tensions, promoting fairness and developing community trust in the Big Society’</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/%e2%80%98community-resilience-managing-tensions-promoting-fairness-and-developing-community-trust-in-the-big-society%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Community resilience: managing tensions, promoting fairness and developing community trust in the Big Society’. Jayne Francis, MEL, and Harriss Beider, University of Coventry Abstract The large-scale regeneration programmes established by the previous government are being either substantially scaled back or entirely withdrawn; programmes and interventions designed to help eradicate poverty and to promote social and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘THE POWER OF PULL’: MAXIMISING SERENDIPITY THROUGH QUALITY SOCIAL NETWORKS (FOR INNOVATION)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/%e2%80%98the-power-of-pull%e2%80%99-maximising-serendipity-through-quality-social-networks-for-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘THE POWER OF PULL’: MAXIMISING SERENDIPITY THROUGH QUALITY SOCIAL NETWORKS (FOR INNOVATION) John Diamond, CLPS -Edge Hill University, and Lorraine Johnston, Newcastle University Abstract Using Schumpeter’s notion of ‘the power of pull’, the article will argue that maximising serendipity is key for creating quality social networks. Such chance interactions between Higher Education institutions and policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where next for ethnic diversity policy-making in the context of the ‘Big Society’? Reflections from a cross-national comparative study of Manchester and Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/where-next-for-ethnic-diversity-policy-making-in-the-context-of-the-%e2%80%98big-society%e2%80%99-reflections-from-a-cross-national-comparative-study-of-manchester-and-copenhagen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where next for ethnic diversity policy-making in the context of the ‘Big Society’? Reflections from a cross-national comparative study of Manchester and Copenhagen Jessica Smith, Policy Researcher, Centre for Local Economic Strategies Abstract In the months since the election of the Conservative-Liberal coalition government, little has been said about what the change in government will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Society – Small Beer? Rural Places and the drive towards and enhanced localism</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/big-society-%e2%80%93-small-beer-rural-places-and-the-drive-towards-and-enhanced-localism/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/big-society-%e2%80%93-small-beer-rural-places-and-the-drive-towards-and-enhanced-localism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Society – Small Beer? Rural Places and the drive towards and enhanced localism Ivan Annibal, Rose Regeneration Abstract The central premise of the Big Society is that communities will be keen to step up and take on the challenge of delivering public services in their own communities themselves. There is a powerful line of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actually existing ‘social sustainability’ and the opportunities and risks in leveraging the discourse of Big Society at the local level. Urban regeneration in Hastings.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/actually-existing-%e2%80%98social-sustainability%e2%80%99-and-the-opportunities-and-risks-in-leveraging-the-discourse-of-big-society-at-the-local-level-urban-regeneration-in-hastings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually existing ‘social sustainability’ and the opportunities and risks in leveraging the discourse of Big Society at the local level. Urban regeneration in Hastings. Johanne Orchard-Webb, Final Year PhD Student,  University of Brighton Abstract This paper offers an insight into an alternative outlook for social urban regeneration that is articulated by a large scale, political, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The role of well-being interventions and in creating and supporting big society</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/the-role-of-well-being-interventions-and-in-creating-and-supporting-big-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The role of well-being interventions and in creating and supporting big society Victoria Bradford, Consultant, Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and Sally Taylor, Evaluation &#38; Research Analyst, BIG Abstract The £165 million Big Lottery Fund Well-Being Programme aims to improve healthy eating, physical activity, social well-being and the mental health of people. The programme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Big Society&#8217;: Bold new idea or a bankrupted concept</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/the-big-society-bold-new-idea-or-a-bankrupted-concept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The Big Society&#8217;: Bold new idea or a bankrupted concept Yasminah Beebeejaun (University of Manchester), Paul O&#8217;Hare (University of Manchester) Recently, a new term has been introduced to the lexicon of UK’s voluntary and community sector: &#8216;the Big Society&#8217;. Coined by the 2010 incoming Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition Government, the rhetorical momentum of the phrase appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W[h]ither the State? Liverpool, Static Capital, and Mobile Government</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/whither-the-state-liverpool-static-capital-and-mobile-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[W[h]ither the State? Liverpool, Static Capital, and Mobile Government Dr Paul Jones and Dr Michael Mair, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool Abstract Liverpool City Council’s decision to withdraw from the Big Society experiment can be read as a belated acknowledgement that Liverpool has much to lose as a result of recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neo-Liberalism, the Big Society and Community Organising: Between a Romanticised Associational and Radical Agonistic Perspective</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/05/neo-liberalism-the-big-society-and-community-organising-between-a-romanticised-associational-and-radical-agonistic-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neo-Liberalism, the Big Society and Community Organising: Between a Romanticised Associational and  Radical Agonistic Perspective Paul Bunyan, Edge Hill University Abstract At the heart of much of the discourse about the ‘Big Society’ lie normative assumptions about the nature of social change and the virtues of associational life. Such assumptions, shaped  in recent times by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Society – Implications and Opportunities for Older People.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/01/big-society-%e2%80%93-implications-and-opportunities-for-older-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final presentation was given by Claire Ball, the Development Manager for Equalities and Human Rights, Age UK.  Claire began her presentation by running through the various key elements of the Big Society and introducing some of the implications for older people. The demographics show that we are an ageing society.  At present there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Through Change: Recession, Poverty and Sustainable Livelihoods in Bradford</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/01/living-through-change-recession-poverty-and-sustainable-livelihoods-in-bradford/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The afternoon session stated with a presentation by Lucy Brill, the Programme Co-ordinator at OXFAM on a piece of research that they had done that had been funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that explored the effects of the economic downturn on people in Bradford.  It was also looking at what could be done to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘What about the workers’</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/01/%e2%80%98what-about-the-workers%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/01/%e2%80%98what-about-the-workers%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final speaker for the first session was Hilary Wainwright, the founding editor of Red Pepper and Research Director of the New Politics programme at the Transnational Institute.  She focused on the impacts that the Big Society will have on the paid workers by outlining the historic framework of the State in democracy and as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equality and the Big Society</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/01/equality-and-the-big-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Coote, the Head of Social Policy at the New Economics Foundation focused on the Big Society and inequalities rather than inequalities created by Big Society.  Anna, highlighted the vagueness of policy, the methods and initiatives that are being used to make the ‘story of Big Society’ a reality within a climate of severe government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Sector Engagement – the Challenges and the Solutions.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The keynote presentation of the morning of the second day of the Summer School was made by Angus McCabe, Third Sector Research Centre based in Birmingham University.  Angus’ starting point was that Cameron’s Big Society ‘is a mystery to many’ and the biggest awareness is in the over 60s.  However, because of the Big Society [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day one Plenary</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/01/day-one-plenary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Speeden,  drew together the key themes that had been discussed during the day.  Most of the discussions had focused on what’s really happening behind the rhetoric, what are the underlying and perhaps hidden agendas.  There is a belief that the coalition government came in with a clear agenda that was underpinned by knowledge and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Society: Opportunity or Threat for the VCS</title>
		<link>http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/clps/2011/07/01/big-society-opportunity-or-threat-for-the-vcs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Caulfield, Chief Executive of Voluntary Sector North West was the final speaker of the day.  His confiding and extremely well organised ‘stream of consciousness’ discussion explored some of the effects of the abolition of particular agencies and how this had led to the need to actually bring back some of the aspects that had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equality, Cohesive Communities and the Big Society in the North West</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth speaker was Neil McInroy, Chief Executive of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies, whose entertaining, passionate and lively presentation started by not only calling for universities to become more activist but the English as well.  He commented on how polite and accepting the English are as a nation compared to other parts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Society and Community Activism Open Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the flipcharts from the table discussions &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Race and the Big Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Elizabeth Henry, chief Executive of Race on the Agenda was the next speaker.  She started by giving an introduction to work of her agency.  She gave us some examples of why Black and Minority Ethnic Communities do not consider the Big Society to be a new concept.  One example was that people who came [...]]]></description>
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