This initiative aims to bring together a community of scholars that have a common interest in resilience but are dispersed across Schools. The aim is to introduce the concept of community resilience, begin to operationalise it through a systems approach and lay out a plan for future development of research activities within the group.

The initial programme consists of six discussion sessions, taking place in U006, Brockington Extension at 4pm on the following dates:

• 10 November: Community Resilience Introduction
• 17 November: What does resilience mean to you?
• 24 November: What does community mean to you?
• 1 December: How do you facilitate and evaluate community resilience?
• 8 December: Is resilience always a good thing?
• 15 December: Concluding review and next steps

You do not have to attend all sessions.

Organisers, George Foden and Chukwudi Ogunna, plan to capture the discussions with a view to create a project output at the end of the six sessions.

If you would like further information please email g.w.foden@lboro.ac.uk or c.ogunna@lboro.ac.uk.