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Last month I attended the Global Development Institute conference “Scaling up participatory development in towns and cities of the global south” at the People’s History Museum. The purpose of the conference was to understand the opportunities and constraints on scaling up participation by sharing experiences and analysing outcomes.

Helen Grimshaw, our Senior Consultant in Sustainability, will be speaking on a panel as part of the Social and Spatial Inequalities conference organised by the People, Place and Policy group at Sheffield Hallam University on Wednesday 3rd July. 

Helen will be sharing insight from our People Powered Retrofit project with Carbon Co-op, particularly looking at householder agency and implications for energy efficiency policy in owner occupied homes.

We're delighted that Squash Liverpool have won in the 'best shop' category at the BBC Food and Farming Awards, held in Bristol on 12 June 2019. It's great that their work in providing healthy food and gardening activities in Liverpool 8 has been recognised at a national level. 

We are looking to recruit an Urban Designer with a specialism in Landscape, to work with us on a range of projects from our office in Manchester. This will be at Consultant / Senior Consultant level depending on experience, becoming permanent following a 6 month probationary period. Applicants should hold a postgraduate degree in Landscape Architecture or equivalent (MA, MSc or equivalent), and have at least 2 years professional experience. 

We are looking to recruit a Landscape Architectural Assistant on a temporary, paid, summer post. This will be at Junior Consultant / Consultant level depending on experience. Applicants should hold a degree in Landscape Architecture or equivalent (BA, BSc or equivalent) and be already studying towards or finishing their postgraduate qualification.

We're very pleased to announce that we are collaborating with Manchester School of Architecture to offer a PhD Scholarship on "Retrofitting Neighbourhoods: Exploring approaches to sustainable residential retrofit at neighbourhood scale".