Community Profiling Course – Leeds 9th Dec 2008

Please find below details of an upcoming training day on Community Profiling to be held in Leeds on the 9th Dec 2008.

 

A community profile is a comprehensive description of the needs of a population that is defined or defines itself, as a community, and the resources that exist within that community, carried out with the active involvement of the community itself, for the purpose of developing an action plan or other means of improving the quality of life of the community. This one day course will provide an introduction to planning and carrying out a community profile.

The course will cover:

• The meaning of community profiling and its relationship to needs assessment, social audit and community consultation
• The relevance of community profiling to different areas of practice
• Planning a community profile
• Selecting appropriate methods· Involving communities and other stakeholders

Cost: £190 (non members) £130 (members)

 

Full details and booking at http://www.the-sra.org.uk/training/training09122008.htm

 

Graduate Junction

I belong to a team of postgraduate students at the Universities of Durham and Oxford. A few months ago, I contacted you about the Graduate Junction www.graduatejunction.com, a free online resource that we developed to connect graduate researchers around the world. We want to sincerely thank you for helping us raising awareness of the Graduate Junction at Worcester University by forwarding information to your postgraduate body.

At that time Graduate Junction had just been launched, and it was thanks to the first postgraduates to use the site that we were able to further develop it to meet the needs of the graduate research community. Since then, more than 12,000 researchers have created a research profile and joined the network. The site itself has attracted nearly a million page views in less than six months. Graduate Junction has received substantial recognition in the academic community, as evidenced by articles featuring the site in the Times Higher Education (UK) and the Chronicle of Higher Education (US). Furthermore, our project is endorsed by many large universities and research institutes around the world; several have provided testimonials on our site.

We have recently re-designed the site and expanded our academic resource offerings, which now include a conference database and the ability for postgraduates to use Graduate Junction to create personal open-access academic homepages.

Our goal is to establish a free resource that enables connections between researchers with similar research interests in a global multidisciplinary environment and provides a wide range of relevant academic information to postgraduates in a central place.

We are extremely grateful for your early support of our project, and we would greatly appreciate if you would consider sending around updated information to your postgraduate students, as we believe this will be especially beneficial for new students just commencing their research.

If you have any comments or would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. We have prepared updated information which I would be glad to send you.

Thank you once again for your early support, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes,

Esther Dingley

Graduate Junction

Block 2, Mountjoy Research Centre

Durham DH1 3UP