Community Development

Cultural Intermediaries Connecting Communities

Revisiting Approaches to Cultural Engagement

Edited by Phil Jones, Beth Perry and Paul Long

This book considers the importance of cultural intermediaries, analysing their role as mitigators of the worst effects of social exclusion and examining the necessity to engage communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production.

Critical community practice

By Hugh L Butcher, with, Sarah Banks, Paul Henderson and Jim Robertson

This book provides a challenging approach to understanding community practice.It offers a much-needed theoretical perspective, setting out an analysis of power and empowerment and exploring new ways of understanding active citizenship.

Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes

A Guide to Collaborative Practice in the UK

By Martin Field

Examines ‘self-build housing’ and ‘community-led housing’, discussing the commonalities and distinctions between these in practice, and what could be learned from other initiatives across Europe.

Countryside Connections

Older People, Community and Place in Rural Britain

Edited by Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Robin Means and Vanessa Burholt

The first project-based book in the New Dynamics of Ageing series offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on older people’s role as assets in rural civic society. The authors examine the ways in which rural elders are connected to community, the contributions they make and the groups to which they belong.

Continuity and Change in Voluntary Action

Patterns, Trends and Understandings

By Rose Lindsey and John Mohan With Elizabeth Metcalfe and Sarah Bulloch

Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this pioneering book charts change and continuity in voluntary activity since 1981. Part of the Third Sector Research Series.

Continuing Professional Development in Social Work

By Carmel Halton, Fred Powell and Margaret Scanlon

This book offers a unique insight into the possibilities of CPD and the issues it presents for newly qualified and experienced social workers in practice. It offers possible directions for the future of post qualifying social work education, making it essential reading for practitioners, educators, managers and policy-makers.

Community Research for Participation

From Theory to Method

Edited by Lisa Goodson and Jenny Phillimore

Presenting the latest thinking in the field, this book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering both theoretical and practical issues relating to community research methodologies.

Community Organising against Racism

'Race', Ethnicity and Community Development

Edited by Gary Craig

Gary Craig and his contributors blend theory and practice-based case studies to review how different community development approaches can empower minority ethnic communities to confront racism and overcome social, economic and political disadvantage.

Community Groups in Context

Local Activities and Actions

Edited by Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore

Collates knowledge and examines the role and nature of community groups and activities operating outside of the formal voluntary sector in the UK to develop a coherent understanding about these so-called “below the radar” organisations.

The community development reader

History, themes and issues

Edited by Gary Craig, Marjorie Mayo, Keith Popple, Mae Shaw and Marilyn Taylor

This unique Reader traces the changing fortunes of community development through a selection of readings from key writers.