Everybody needs good neighbours
Published 1 October 2010
Event 6 October 2010
"Everybody needs good neighbours" is how the song from the popular Australian TV soap goes but what does being a good neighbour mean?
Experts at the University of Brighton and holding a seminar on the subject and say it normally refers to people "prepared to provide assistance when needed but who respect privacy". But they have discovered practices vary from neighbourhood to neighbourhood.
The seminar, Everybody needs good neighbours: universities and communities in it together, is aimed at helping community-university partnership work.
Speakers include Graham Crow, deputy director of the Economic and Social Research Council's national centre for research methods and professor of sociology at the University of Southampton, Professor Angie Hart, professor of child, family and community health at the University of Brighton, and Ceri Davies, development manager for the university's Economic and Social Engagement department.
The seminar has been organised by the University of Brighton's Community University Partnership Programme (Cupp) which recently started On our doorstep, a programme based on the idea of the university being a good neighbour and the mutual benefits that can be achieved when communities and universities work in partnership together.
The seminar will be 1–2.30pm room D222 Checkland Building, Falmer campus, Brighton, next Wednesday (6 October). For further information contact f.c.a.edwards@brighton.ac.uk.
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