Project publications

Supporting Smart Urban Intermediation - Scottish Supplement 2019
Scottish Policy Supplement
December 2019

Socially smart cities - Making a difference in urban neighbourhoods
Final project report
November 2019

Social transformation in urban neighbourhoods - Supporting smart urban intermediation
Policy & Practice Briefing
November 2019

Smart Urban Intermediaries - Report from Birmingham's fourth local lab
SmartUrbI Birmingham team
June 2019

Smart cities, social innovation and smart urban development - Working Paper
SmartUrbI team
October 2018

Resilience, Liveability and Public Value - Working Paper
SmartUrbI team
November 2017

Collaborative Action Research in Labs - Working Paper
SmartUrbI team
1 October 2017

Five Ways to Make a Difference: Perceptions of Practitioners Working in Urban Neighborhoods
Catherine Durose, Merlijn van Hulst, Stephen Jeffares, Oliver Escobar, Annika Agger, Laurens de Graaf
December 2015

Five Ways to Make a Difference: Perceptions of Practitioners Working in Urban Neighborhoods
Catherine Durose, Merlijn van Hulst, Stephen Jeffares, Oliver Escobar, Annika Agger, Laurens de Graaf
December 2015
Other publications by our research team

Pluralism and Democratic Participation: What Kind of Citizen are Citizens Invited to be?
Oliver Escobar
2017

Multilevel governance from below: how Dutch cities respond to intra-EU mobility
Peter Scholten, Godfried Engbersen, Mark van Ostaijen & Erik Snel
August 2017

Worlds between Words - The politics of intra-European movement discourses
Mark van Ostaijen
June 2017

Making it official: Participation professionals and the challenge of institutionalizing deliberative democracy
Oliver Escobar
March 2017

Review of First Generation Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
Harkins, C., Moore, K. and Escobar, O.
October 2016

The politics of numbers. Framing intra-EU migrants in the Netherlands
Mark van Ostaijen, Peter Scholten
October 2016

The short guide to community development
Alison Gilchrist, Marilyn Taylor
March 2016

Participatory budgeting in Scotland: an overview of strategic design choices and principles for effective delivery
Harkins, C. and Escobar, O
December 2015

Exemplary practitioners: A review of actors who make a difference in governing.
Merlijn van Hulst , Laurens de Graaf & Gabriël van den Brink
December 2014
December 2014

Scripting Deliberative Policy-Making: Dramaturgic Policy Analysis and Engagement Know-How
Oliver Escobar
October 2014
October 2014

From Policy “Frames” to “Framing”: Theorizing a More Dynamic, Political Approach
Merlijn van Hulst, Dvora Yanow
May 2014
May 2014

Building Capacity for Dialogue Facilitation in Public Engagement Around Research
Oliver Escobar, Wendy Faulkner, Heather J Rea
Spring 2014

Storytelling at the police station: The canteen culture revisited
Merlijn van Hulst
March 2013
March 2013

‘Beyond text’: exploring ethos and method in co-producing research with communities
Yasminah Beebeejaun, Catherine Durose, James Rees, Joanna Richardson & Liz Richardson
February 2013
February 2013

The work of exemplary practitioners in neighborhood governance
Merlijn van Hulst , Laurens de Graaf & Gabriël van den Brink
January 2013
January 2013

Public dialogue and deliberation: A communication perspective for public engagement practitioners
Oliver Escobar
November 2011
November 2011

The well-connected community: A Networking Approach to Community Development
Alison Gilchrist
October 2010

Neighbourhood Governance: Contested Rationales within a Multi-Level Setting - A Study of Manchester
Catherine Durose Vivien Lowndes
June 2010

Front-line workers and ‘local knowledge ’: Neighbourhood stories in contemporary Uk local governance
Catherine Durose
June 2008
