Co-designing with Communities

This free, online training session will introduce key principles and approaches to co-design, using case studies, frameworks and interactive activities to:

• build confidence in using co-design principles
• understand when to use co-design and its limitations
• how to approach co-design in your specific context and sector

This session will be delivered by Dr David Tross, Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. 

This session has been designed for individuals who are fairly new to co-design, or looking for a refresher. We hope it will be a useful session for academics and researchers at different career levels working in a range of humanities subjects, professional services staff from universities, public engagement professionals and staff from community, cultural and charitable organisations.

This event is free, but booking is required. It will be held online and joining details will be circulated via email to registered attendees. This session will be recorded. If you would like to receive a link to the recording, please sign up for the session to receive the recording link once it is available.

This event is part of a series of CPEP training sessions exploring participatory and collaborative approaches to public engagement. Sessions are designed as standalone trainings, but participants may benefit from attending them in sequence.

This session will be held on Zoom and closed captioning will be available. Any resources referred to during the session will be circulated afterwards via email. Please make a note of any accessibility requirements in the booking form. Further details about what to expect in each session will be made available before the session to those who have booked.

About the facilitator: Dr David Tross

David has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Birkbeck, University of London for over 10 years, and currently lectures on Birkbeck’s BSc Community Development and Public Policy and BSc Social Science programmes. He is also the academic lead on National Lottery Funded Community Leadership programme.

He delivers courses about Community Development, Happiness Research, Well-Being at Work. Host/ partner organisations have included: BBC, HMRC, DWP, Newham Council, TUC, Home Office, Greater London Authority, Southwark Council, Royal College of Arts, DEFRA.

He has also carried out a range of consultancy projects for a range of public, voluntary and private sector organisations, including the Home Office, UK colleges and universities, and local authorities.