The Community Development Podcast (@CommDevtPodcast)

Russell Todd
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A podcast about Community Development practice: | Promoting its value | Sharing its learning | Connecting its practitioners

  1. Ep.54 - How the Left lost the working class with Joan C Williams (Modern Cockney Festival)

    3 MAR

    Ep.54 - How the Left lost the working class with Joan C Williams (Modern Cockney Festival)

    The 2026 Modern Cockney Festival kicked off with this compelling discussion with Prof Joan C Williams, from the University of California and author of the books 'White Working Class' and 'Outclassed: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America'. With kind permission of Andy Green, co-founder of Modern Cockney Festival, the talk has been made available to the podcast. The rest of the Festival's programme this March is here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/moderncockneyfestival/2060702 Follow the Modern Cockney Festival at: instagram.com/moderncockneyfestival/ www.moderncockneyfestival.co.uk _________________________ Follow the podcast on Bluesky at: bsky.app/profile/cdpodcast.bsky.social Support the podcast on Patreon at www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd (email: russell@russelltodd.cymru) My book Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Twelvetrees) is available to order from Policy Press: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

    49 min
  2. Ep.53 - Socio-spatial analysis with Ritva Vilppola

    9 JAN

    Ep.53 - Socio-spatial analysis with Ritva Vilppola

    This episode's guest is Ritva Vilppola. Originally from Aotearoa-New Zealand, Ritva now lives in The Netherlands, via Australia, and they discuss the intersection of architecture, design, and communities in different contexts: urban design, parks, resilience planning. To learn more about their practice you can email Ritva or contact them via LinkedIn: ritva.m.vilppola@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/ritvamaria-vilppola You can also hear more about Ritva's current work on the cross-section of community development and labour organising at the upcoming IACD 2026 Conference in Glasgow! Ritva and Russell discuss a range of intellectual influences, documents and texts related to socio-spatial scales: Jason Hickel, David Harvey, Samuel Stein, Jane Jacobs https://architecture-lobby.org/event/visit-organizing-the-lobby-at-the-2025-venice-biennale/ Community Work at Maleny Neighbourhood Centre o Disaster resilience: https://getreadymaleny.com.au/ and my fellowship project: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Maleny_Maps o Housing: https://issuu.com/hinterlandtimes/docs/ht_paper_oct_2022_emag/8 and https://gcnews.com.au/housing-stress-test/ o Community Forums: https://gcnews.com.au/strength-in-forums/ and https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6955728676592246786/ o Active Transport: https://www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/2022/09/23/maleny-e-bikes/ Urban Design for Health and Wellbeing o https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6825988344275722240/ ________________________________ Follow the podcast on Bluesky at: bsky.app/profile/cdpodcast.bsky.social Support the podcast on Patreon at www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd (email: russell@russelltodd.cymru) My book Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Twelvetrees) is available to order from Policy Press: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

    51 min
  3. Ep.52 - Putting Freire Into Practice: The Gorgie-Dalry Adult Learning Project

    27/10/2025

    Ep.52 - Putting Freire Into Practice: The Gorgie-Dalry Adult Learning Project

    Stan Reeves joins the podcast in this episode to look back at the Adult Learning project that ran for a number of years from 1979 in Gorgie-Dalry in west Edinburgh. It very explicitly drew on the teachings and ideas of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997). In 1989 a book was written about the ALP and subsequently re-published several times. It can be accessed here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-6091-552-9 Music credit: Robert Fish Band - '2/4 Marches (Gay Gordons)': https://youtu.be/A7OgOnDJeqI?si=MnfZRVDasn7Sg5ZC ________________________________ Follow the podcast on Bluesky at: bsky.app/profile/cdpodcast.bsky.social Support the podcast on Patreon at www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd (email: russell@russelltodd.cymru) My book Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Twelvetrees) is available to order from Policy Press: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

    1h 20m
  4. Ep.51 - COMING SOON: The CAER Heritage Podcast

    01/09/2025

    Ep.51 - COMING SOON: The CAER Heritage Podcast

    Later this week the National Centre for Co-ordinating Public Engagement (NCCPE) will release the first episodes in a brand new podcast series that Russell has produced all about the CAER Heritage project in Ely and Caerau in Cardiff, Wales. This is a short excerpt from episode 5 in which Dr Dave Wyatt, one of CAER's founders, gives a flavour of what the series covers. ________________________________ Follow the podcast on Bluesky at: bsky.app/profile/cdpodcast.bsky.social Support the podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd (email: russell@russelltodd.cymru) My book Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Twelvetrees) is available to order from Policy Press: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

    4 min
  5. Ep.50 - "Being the change you want you to see": Youth-led action with the Grange Youth Forum

    05/08/2025

    Ep.50 - "Being the change you want you to see": Youth-led action with the Grange Youth Forum

    For episode 50 Russell heads to Cardiff's Grangetown district in the south of the city to chat with two of the founders of Grange Pavilion's Youth Forum (GPYF) - Nirushan Sudarsan and Shoruk Nekeb. They tell the story of GPYF's origins as a project within the wider Community Gateway project in Grangetown, a long-term community-university civic mission project. They also give a flavour of some of its activities and how GPYF acts as a crucible for discussions about global citizenship, resistance and organising for young people. We also hear from other members of GPYF: Eleeza, Mahima and Amira. You can find out more Grange Pavilion Youth Forum: instagram.com/gpyouthforum/ https://grangepavilion.wales/youth-forum-page/ To learn more about the Community Gateway project: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/community/our-local-community-projects/community-gateway ________________________________ Follow the podcast on Bluesky at: bsky.app/profile/cdpodcast.bsky.social Support the podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd (email: russell@russelltodd.cymru) My book Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Twelvetrees) is available to order from Policy Press: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

    1h 1m
  6. Ep.49 - Cross-border community collaboration in Ireland

    21/07/2025

    Ep.49 - Cross-border community collaboration in Ireland

    For this episode the podcast returns to Ireland and specifically the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland at Derry where Caitriona Mullan is based, and which has featured in the academic work of Dr Giada Lagana. Caitriona is a Derry native and has specialised in cross-border collaboration and policy across Europe in her career in European Union (EU) Affairs, Regional Development, Local Government, Health & Social Care and Communities policy. Giada is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University. Giada's 2021 book 'The European Union and the Northern Ireland Peace Process' on Palgrave outlines the European Union’s approach to conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. It is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-59117-5 Giada and Catriona discuss the importance of not only the EU in the peace process in Northern Ireland but the role of communities and community leaders, in particular women, in ensuring that that policy framework is complemented by community dialogue and collaboration. You can follow Catriona at: x.com/catrionamullan linkedin.com/in/caitriona-mullan-4a46234 You can follow Giada at: linkedin.com/in/giada-lagana-035474159 https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/laganag The Irish Association of Contemporary European Studies website is: https://www.iaces.ie/ Follow the podcast on Bluesky at: https://bsky.app/profile/cdpodcast.bsky.social ________________________________ Produced by Russell Todd (russell@russelltodd.cymru) My book Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Twelvetrees) is available to order from Policy Press: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

    1h 13m
  7. Ep.48 - Introducing the CAER Heritage podcast

    02/07/2025

    Ep.48 - Introducing the CAER Heritage podcast

    A quick introduction to a short podcast series all about the CAER Heritage project in Cardiff, civic mission and how universities and communities can work together. Subscribe to https://soundcloud.com/nccpe-bristol where the series will be hosted by the National Centre for Co-ordinating Public Engagement (NCCPE). ________________________________ Produced by Russell Todd (russell@russelltodd.cymru) My book Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Twelvetrees) is available to order from Policy Press: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e

    2 min
  8. Ep. 47 - Insights from Scotland about Making Rights Real

    06/04/2025

    Ep. 47 - Insights from Scotland about Making Rights Real

    In this episode Russell is joined by Hannah Kitchen Kirby and Clare MacGillivray to discuss human rights and to provide a helpful insight into a right-based approach in practice. Between them they provide the lead pair of articles in IACD's March 2025 edition of Practice Insights which is dedicated to the theme of rights: https://www.iacdglobal.org/practice_insights Hannah was until very recently working in Leith in Cables Wynd House, better known as the 'Banana Flats'. She explains how a rights-based approach was at the heart of efforts to secure investment into the housing. Edinburgh City Council recently announced Cables Wynd House and neighbouring Links View House will receive £69 million of investment, including the provision of lifts which had originally been omitted from plans but thanks to campaigning are now included (https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cableswynd-linksview). Clare MacGillivray from the organisation Making Rights Real, provides an overview of her work with Gypsy Travellers at Double Dykes near Perth. You can follow Clare and Hannah: https://makingrightsreal.org.uk/ linkedin.com/company/making-rights-real uk.linkedin.com/in/clare-macgillivray-64382a95 bsky.app/profile/makingrightsreal.bsky.social https://www.bethanychristiantrust.com/ bsky.app/profile/bethanychristiantrust.com facebook.com/BethanyChristianTrust1 instagram.com/bethanychristiantrust linkedin.com/company/bethany-christian-trust Photo credit: Hannah Kitchen Kirby. It features Cables Wynd House residents at the City Chambers in Edinburgh ahead of giving a deputation to the full council calling for new lifts. __________________ Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd twitter.com/llannerch twitter.com/commdevtpodcast toot.wales/@llannerch instagram.com/llannerch www.russelltodd.cymru

    47 min
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