Communities of Practice Hub

As a result of the THINK Agenda Setting Workshops that took place soon after the launch of THINK, the following Communities of Practice have been launched as initial focus areas that the network would like to collaborate on.

These communities are opportunities for THINK members to get stuck into collaborative working and bring both their challenges and perhaps some solutions to someone else’s challenges.

These groups are about sharing resources, providing sounding boards for your own ideas, writing research bids together and ultimately for THINK to provide a neutral convening space for what the group feels that they need to improve positive outcomes for all, within the work they do.

The THINK delivery team will support those interested in each Community of Practice thematic area to convene meetings, to run training workshops, help organise networking events and to apply for additional funding.

Joining the (Research, data collection, tools for decision-making) Community of Practice has enabled us to explore the potential to collaborate on various aspects of our active travel GIS research with professionals with long-standing interests in a wide range of transport applications.

Professor Gary Higgs, Co-Director Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data, University of South Wales

There will also be an opportunity for each Community of Practice to apply for up to £2000 grant to support a research project that may emerge from the community.

The THINK delivery team will support the Communities of Practice to help them address the strategic elements raised in the Agenda Setting Workshops.

THINK Principles for collaboration 

We invite you to follow these principles while engaging with THINK.

1. Respect: for the varied ways of being and ways of knowing of participants, their varied backgrounds, levels of power, needs and values. 
2. Co-operation and active listening: sharing the ‘air-time’ in group work and being patient and open minded with those who work in different disciplines and use different terminology  
3. Transparency: co-creating a safe, open space for honest conversation. 
4. Nuance: assumption that problems do not have universal solutions. 
5. Reflexive: taking time to reflect on the impact of our thoughts, feelings and behaviours on others/ the work. 
6. No failure, only feedback: co-creating a space to experiment with new ideas. 
7. Interconnectedness: assumption that this work is taking place within nested complex socio-ecological systems, therefore, addressing a challenge in one place can often cause new challenges to emerge elsewhere, and this should not be simply ignored as an inconvenience. 
8. Being mindful of ‘who isn’t in the room’: taking account of the voices of stakeholders who are not present, especially those who are often under-represented.  
9. Asset-based: recognising and building on what assets communities, organisation and individuals already have. 
10. Creating positive health: through widespread recognition of the relationship between transport and health. 

The THINK Communities of Practice

1. Creating equitable and inclusive mobility and places

Organisation members of this hub include:

1. Cardiff University
2. Arup
3. Go Upstream
4. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
5. Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
6. Public Health Wales

2. Research, data collection, tools for decision-making

Organisation members of this hub include:

1. Arup
2. Sustrans
3. Rural Health and Care Wales
4. Cardiff University
5. GIS Research Centre, WISERD, University of South Wales

3. Capturing the social benefits of investment in transport

4. Improving Collaboration and Communication amongst stakeholders

Join a Community of Practice

Personal information provided in this form will be stored securely and only used for the purposes you have consented to. Once you’ve signed up, we will email all those interested in a particular theme, and we arrange an initial facilitated meeting to explore what the group wants to work on.

Communities of Practice

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I would like to join the following THINK Communities of Practice *Creating equitable and inclusive mobility and placesResearch, data collection, tools for decision-makingCapturing the social benefits of investment in transportImproving Collaboration and Communication amongst stakeholders

You can join multiple Communities of Practice. You can change your preferences and opt out of updates from your chosen Community of Practice at any time by contacting think@aber.ac.uk

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