Lunch Hour Lecture: What Changes When Communities Define Prosperity?

Citizen social science is an emerging urban research method. This event will look at the role citizen social scientists, residents trained to work as social scientists in their neighbourhoods, played in a project to redefine what prosperity means to people living in and around the Olympic Park. Date: 23rd March 2021 About the speaker: Saffron Woodcraft, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL Saffron Woodcraft is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity. Saffron leads IGP's work in east London to redefine prosperity with local communities. She works collaboratively with citizen scientists, community organisations, government policymakers and business decision-makers to bring local understandings of prosperity into planning and decision-making processes. She focuses on developing citizen 'social' science as a method for co-producing policy-relevant knowledge about pathways to prosperity, translating lived experience into new prosperity metrics, and developing new forms of partnership and collaboration for action on place-based prosperity. Free to attend, live stream or watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7vFbAmvRA&t=11s More info : events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLMinds #MadeAtUCL