Course: Power Relations and Participatory ResearchMay 16-18 Lincolns Inn Fields Building, LSE, London, WE2A 2AE In this 3 day course, participants will use practical exercises and case studies to examine power relations within participatory research. Participants will
develop their own existing participatory research project(s), or a proposal for the future. They will have the opportunity to learn how to address unequal power relations to ensure the research is both high quality and is produced inclusively and can be jointly translated into positive change in communities – locally, globally or both. The fee per teaching day is:
• £30 per day for UK/EU registered students
• £60 per day for staff at UK/EU academic institutions, UK/EU Research Councils researchers, UK/EU public sector staff and staff at UK/EU registered charity organisations and recognised UK/EU research institutions.
• £220 per day for all other participants
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Workshop: QUANTUM-Based AGRICULTURE for FARMERS
-where science and traditional practices meet - balancing the energies of land, field and farmJune 20-23 The Field Centre, Nailsworth, Glos., GL6 0QE The aim of the workshop is to provide an understanding of
the principles of subtle energies, and to explore the impact of energy fields on our health and our behaviour, and on our management of and relationship with our land, our animals and our environment. Amongst other impacts, this can lead to restored livestock health, increased crop production, reduced pest and disease incidence and improved quality of your produce. Dr Patrick MacManaway is a geo-biologist and second generation practitioner of the healing arts, including earth acupuncture and geopathic stress remediation. Training first with his parents at their Healing and Teaching Centre in rural Fife, Scotland, Patrick studied Medicine at Edinburgh University before taking apprenticeships in both Western and
Eastern approaches to landscape energy and traditional Geomancy. Past-President of the British Society of Dowsers, and Founding Member of Circles for Peace, he is the author of several books and CDs. In practice since 1994, Patrick consults and teaches on farms worldwide with regular visits to the UK, USA and Australia. Cost: £295 (including biodynamic lunch) For full details and bookings please contact: J Wright j.wright@coventry.ac.uk Tel. 07557425257
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8th Annual Conference of the AESOP ‘SUSTAINABLE FOOD PLANNING’ group, 2017November 14-15 Coventry University, Coventry, UK, CV1 5FB Re-imagining sustainable food planning, building resourcefulness: Food movements, insurgent
planning and heterodox economics In this conference we look for contributions that valorise and bring to the fore the multiplicity of marginal, residual, heterodox or unheard experiences, policies, concepts and practices that are already creating new worlds in innovative and socially just ways, and/or bear the potential of becoming building blocks of sustainable food planning for a resourceful, agroecological, urbanism.
We are also interested in critical contributions that reflect on how current mainstream approaches to food production, food strategies and urban agriculture can be/are being radically transformed into tools for resourcefulness.
We particularly look for critical contributions that address one or more of the following five sub-themes: - theoretical re-conceptualisations of urbanism
- political processes and strategies
- resourceful
land management
- urban agroecological practices
- post-capitalist economics
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