On 15 and 16 June the LIDA team met at Loughborough University for the third of our extended planning and reporting meetings (previously we met in Bath in September last year and then in Exeter in January this year). It was a time to both catch-up on the work so far that has been undertaken by the team at Bath, led by Julie Barnett, and also to plan in detail the next phase of activity. The good news is that…
The issue of engaging the migrant worker communities was also a main item for discussion for our first Programme Advisory Board, which also met on 15th June at Loughborough. The PAB is a collection of critical friends (academics and other stakeholders) who come together formally once a year (although we’re also in touch with them more regularly, of course, on an individual basis) to give the project strategic advice and to help us maximize the impacts of the work through…