Project team
Dr Joanne Tippett, Senior Lecturer in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, researches planning for sustainability and innovative community engagement and partnership development. She is a founder of Ketso and the RoundView Guidelines for a regenerative future. She is working on how to make best use of the RoundView to enrich Sustainability teaching and learning at the University, most recently through a Flexible Learning Pilot which supported the evolution of this resource.
Fraser How is an experienced facilitator and the co-founder with Joanne of the RoundView. He developed the digital Roundview tool during the recent Flexible Learning Pilot. He is also a co-developer of the engagement tool Ketso and has collaborated with Joanne for two decades, including leading on community engagement for the 5-year, £3.2 million Carbon Landscape Programme.
Their experience is synthesised in: Tippett, J. and How, F. (2020), Town Planning Review, Where to lean the ladder of participation: a normative heuristic for effective coproduction processes, 91, (2), 109–132. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.7
Dr Jamie Farrington is Postdoctoral Research Associate affiliated with the RoundView and ThinkingWare projects. Jamie has worked as part of the wider RoundView Team, including being seconded to Manchester UNESCO City of Literature, to assist in developing these teaching and learning resources.https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-farrington-229377a8/
Junyi Li recently graduated with a Master of Science in Environmental governance from The University of Manchester. She has worked as the Project Support Officer for the RoundView and ThinkingWare, and is a PhD candidate in the School of Environment, Education and Development. https://www.linkedin.com/in/junyi-li-a81047105/
Dr Justin Larner was the Research Associate contributing to the research underpinning the original development of this resource. Justin is an experienced researcher and consultant with a PhD in Digital Innovation from Lancaster University.
Origins and stewardship of IP
This is a project of the ThinkingWare Community Interest Company, which was set up by Dr Joanne Tippett to steward and curate tools and resources for effective community engagement and planning for sustainability.
ThinkingWare is in turn supported by the social business Ketso, which provides hands-on toolkits for creative engagement and learning. Much of the ideas in this workshop planning tool have drawn on decades of experience from Ketso users around the world, and we are hugely grateful for the ideas and feedback from this diverse range of people.
Funding
This workshop planning tool was supported by the UKRI Participatory Research Fund allocation, 2021-22. It draws on resources that were developed as part of the Aspect Methods for Change project.