Mapping Sheffield's neighbourhoods 1: questions, principles and ideas
For the past few weeks, there has been a collective effort to map Sheffield’s neighbourhoods and understand community networks across the city. This work has been undertaken by Citizen Network Research and Tom French, with support and funding from NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.
To date, views have been sought in two ways:
An online mapping tool;
Face to face, offline sessions in different parts of the city, thanks to the support of a range of different organisations across Sheffield.
We are collating a very rich data set ready to be analysed. Some of it relates to people’s drawing on maps, while some of it is about people’s feelings towards different places and networks.
We are now keen to work with as many people as possible from across the city to ask questions and start making sense of it all. This is not about being a technical ‘data expert’ (although those skills are more than welcome too, of course); this is about being inquisitive and collectively contributing to what we do with this next. Everyone is welcome.
This first of two sessions is open to everyone. Its purpose is to:
Provide a short introduction to the project and the data that’s available
Show the headline analysis so far
Understand complementary data sets to consider in future analysis
Harvest questions from participants to steer the more technical analysis
Establish some core (design) principles for future mapping
Provide space for people to access and analyse the data (if they wish)
Important note: By signing up to this event, you are providing your contact details and agree that we can also continue a conversation with you about neighbourhoods in Sheffield after the event.
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