ActEarly workshop, September 2020
The second ActEarly workshop was held on 24th September 2020, remotely via Zoom.
Adding my voice to the Born in Bradford (BiB) study: why I got involved
My name is Eisha Khan and I live in Bradford with my husband and three amazing children; Musa who is eight, Mariyah aged six and Minha who is 4 years old. We have a lovely cat called Fluffy.
What’s on(line)? Creating new platforms for virtual community engagement in ActEarly
As part of our ActEarly collaboration in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, we’ve been working with the inspirational Bromley by Bow Centre to explore what makes happy and healthy children. The aim of this stream of work is primarily to set the agenda for the ActEarly research priorities across Tower Hamlets, to build stronger […]
People-powered research: but what actually is it?
As John mentioned in his last blog post, our communities are at the heart of ActEarly. If we’re going to achieve sustainable changes in health and our ‘systems’ that promote health then we need to start in harnessing the views and creativity of our citizens. We like to think of the ActEarly project as ‘people-powered’. […]
What do we mean when we say co-production?
ActEarly has made a great start and is already breaking new ground – for example, putting co-production at the centre of everything it does. Such an approach is much needed but it can throw up challenges and I talk through some of these in this blog. I’m sure there are many of you who have […]
ActEarly workshop, September 2019
The first ActEarly workshop was held on 26th September 2019 at Salts Mill, Saltaire. These workshops will be held twice a year, alternating between Bradford and London. The aim of the workshops is to provide an important opportunity for all academic, practice, policy and community partners to share ideas and plan projects but is also […]