Hear the latest news and information about community development and our work.
Date and time
10.00am to 3.30pm, Thursday 27th March 2025
Venue
Clarice Pears/ Byers Community Hub, University of Glasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/byrescommunityhub/
Directions to get there - https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/byrescommunityhub/contact/
Sign up
Please complete the form below to sign up for this in-person session.
A practical learning session on data analysis in action. In this 2.5-hour online session, we will look at a variety of methods to support you to analyse and make the most of your data.
We will give you hints, tips and tools for qualitative and quantitative data analysis, from very simple manual data analysis, to using online tools and excel spreadsheets (don't worry, we will make it interesting!)
By the end of the session, you should have a clearer idea on the analysis tools that will work for you, and an understanding of how to use them.
As a follow up to the session, 2 weeks after it, we will be offering a drop-in clinic where you can come for any additional support - or those questions that arise when you start to use the techniques in practice.
Please use the form below to indicate your availability on the following dates for the first analysis training session. We’ll confirm the final date in early January.
Please use the form below to indicate your availability on the following dates for the 2nd drop in session.
We’re pleased to invite you to face-to-face training for Creating Hope Together, which will take place on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd October 2024 at Scottish Community Development Centre in Glasgow (full details below).
The training will be a gentle introduction to doing your own research. You’ll get to try out one or two ways to do research on the day and the training will also be a great chance to meet everyone involved, including the other groups taking part. Lunch will be provided on both days as well as tea and coffee.
Venue: Scottish Community Development Centre, Suite 305, Baltic Chambers, 50 Wellington Street, Glasgow G2 6HJ (See map) (See directions).
Dates and times:
Wednesday 2nd October, 10am-3pm
Thursday 3rd October, 10am-3pm
Please could you sign up for the training using this form. Everyone attending should fill the form in.
The final shared learning session for CPAR will take place in May 2024 and is a chance to hear what other CPAR researchers have been finding out in their research and also share what you’ve been doing. Attending the event is a requirement of CPAR and is a great opportunity to practice talking about your research to others and to hear and share tips for taking your research forward.
We’d like you to sign up to one of the following days and times:
Monday 13th May 2-4pm
Tuesday 21st May 10am-12pm
Please use this form to say which date you can manage.
Note: it might be helpful for you to attend the same event as other researchers from your group/organisation. However, this isn’t essential.
SCDC will be contributing a response to the Effective community engagement in local development planning guidance consultation and would like to hear from any community organisations or others in our network who would like to help shape our response
Read MoreA new research project is interested in what the public think about different income-based policies that impact on health. For this, they are looking for people to take part in interviews, focus groups and a public panel to help deisgnm the research. People will be given a finacial incentive for their time.
Read MoreParticipation requests were designed to improve community input to how services are run. Six years on the way they are being used is under review to make them more useful. Don’t miss your chance to shape how they might work in future.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government has launched a consultation into community wealth building, with the aim of taking forward a Community Wealth Building Bill.
Read MorePlease note: We aim to have a good spread and balance in terms of geography, urban/rural and equality/inequality, and places will be allocated on this basis. Those who we cannot offer a place to on this occasion will be able to engage with the inquiry as it goes forward and we are happy to provide further details of this to anyone.
If you have any difficulty completing the form please contact andrew@scdc.org.uk, 07507107585
Find out how you can participate in the Scottish Parliament’s inquiry into part 2 of the Community Empowerment Act on community planning.
Read MoreSCDC recently submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on land reform, ‘Land reform in a net-zero Scotland’. Here’s a brief summary of what we said.
Read MoreSCDC has recently submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), which sets out how places and environments will be planned and designed in the years to come. Here are some key points from our response.
Read MoreThis event will explore the appeals process for Participation Requests, which were introduced as part of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.
Read MoreWe’re going to submit a reponse to the Scottish Government’s consultation on its fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), and we’re inviting anyone interested in helping shape it to get in touch.
Read MoreThe event, in partnership with the Scottish Community Development Centre, is to be opened by Tom Arthur MSP, Minister for Public Finance, Planning, and Community Wealth. There will be an opportunity to hear from a community group who has engaged with the end to end process; representatives from the Scottish Community Development Centre involved in the participation request work; and from academics at The Innovation School, Glasgow School of Art, who have been leading research on participation requests and broader participation mechanisms in Scotland.
If you have any difficulty completing the form please contact andrew@scdc.org.uk, 07507107585
Scottish Community Development Centre is inviting community groups, third sector organisations and public bodies to express an interest in working with us to consider a potential appeals process for Participation Requests, which were introduced as part of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.
Read MoreFind out about SCDC’s programme of activities to increase community awareness and skills around Participation Requests, including advice, resources and the development of an appeals mechanism.
Read MoreThis research develops a fuller understanding of cross-sector collaboration across public, community and third sector organisations and the emerging range of coronavirus (COVID-19) focused community groups.
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