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Diane Warburton BAHons FRSA
Diane works mainly on research and evaluation projects,
as well as writing for a wide range of audiences including academic and professional
journals and publications, Government departments and agencies, national and
international NGOs, and the general public through work for BBC Radio 4 and Channel
4 television. She is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Brighton, and co-founder
of Involve. She is also a member of InterAct, and an advisor to the Black Environment
Network.
Diane's main area of work is public and stakeholder
participation and community engagement, especially in sustainable development
programmes. She has recently focused on evaluation of engagement programmes,
and is currently evaluating the Your Health, Your Care, Your Say initiative for
the Department of Health, the Fair Share initiative for the National Lottery,
the Community Renewables Initiative for the Countryside Agency, and a community
sustainable consumption and production programme for WWF UK.
In the past, she has evaluated the National Waste Dialogue
for The Environment Council, the development programme of the Heritage Lottery
Fund, the Sustainable Communities Programme for ENCAMS, and Rural Action for
the Environment for the Countryside Agency.
Other current and recent projects have been with the Environment Agency (on social
policy, building trust in local communities, modernising consultation, and developing
learning architectures), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
(good practice guidelines on community and land use issues), and research projects
with Involve on participatory methods (published as People and Participation),
and on the costs and benefits of participation.
She was briefly seconded to the Home Office Civil Renewal
Unit (2004-5), and was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton on
the ESRC Democracy and Participatio Programme (2000-2003), both part-time. She
has previously worked for the Community Development Foundation (1976-81), Partnership
Ltd (1989-94) and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (1989-94).
Projects during that time included work on regional environmental networks; community
information projects; work to enable St Helen Borough Council to become a 'community
authority'; various projects for the Scottish Development Agency on community
involvement in regeneration including in Motherwell, Glasgow and Edinburgh; research
for the Scottish Development Department into community co-operative housing;
and work to establish the first Groundwork trusts. She worked freelance from
1994, until forming Shared Practice in 2002.
She has also been involved with various local community organisations on a voluntary
basis, including as an elected neighbourhood councillor in Hammersmith, West
London; as a founding member of a campaign group in Hackney, East London; and
with a community association in Brighton.
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