COMMUNITY OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
UNIT (CORU)
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The Community Operational Research Unit (CORU) came to Lincoln in 1998, continuing an initiative started at Northern College by the UK Operational Research Society.
Researchers in CORU work with community members, third sector organizations and their public sector partners on programs that aim to strengthen civil society, improve well-being and support new forms of self-organisation in communities.
Areas of activity and expertise include:
- Citizenship, Engagement and Empowerment
- Well-being (for offenders on probation and general healthy living initiatives)
- Community systems and self-organisation
The ESRC Capacity Building Cluster for
Third Sector Research on Community Empowerment and Active
Citizenship is hosted within the unit. This is a partnership
between Lincoln, Goldsmiths and Manchester Metropolitan
Universities. Strong links also exist with the National Take
Part Network, CLG and the UK OR Society.
Click here for a CORU Activity Update
Click here for Details of the London 2012 Inspire Mark
The Team
- Dr Rebecca Herron, Reader & Director of CORU.
- Zoraida Mendiwelso Bendek, Senior Research Fellow, Program Leader (Citizenship) & ESRC capacity-building cluster
- Jennifer Jackson, Senior Research Fellow (Wellbeing)
- Marianne Keeler, Knowledge Transfer Associate [KTP Scheme]
- Veronica Cini, Events Organiser
Visiting Professors
- Professor Gerard de Zeeuw
- Professor Jan Gerrit Schuurman
Associated PhD Researchers and Recent Alumni
- Dr Anne Grocock
- Dr Agnieska Projla
- Kwesi Aggrey
- Phil Considine
- Martin Hodgkinson
- Terry Miller
Visitors / International links
- Dr Carole Brooke
- Dr David Salinas Navarro (Tec de Monterrey, Mexico)
- Dr Eliseo Vilalta–Perdomo (Tec de Monterrey, Mexico)
- Martha Vahl
Community Research Associates
- Alison Christie (Lincolnshire County Council), Liz Ash (Groundwork Lincolnshire), Rebecca Dray, Frank Kelly, Chris Lamberton (OASIS), Thomasin Nicholds (Children’s Links), Dawn Rene, Jenny Reynolds, Alan Robson and Terry Miller (Lincolnshire Rural Support Network and Chaplaincy), Peter Walton (Lincolnshire Association of Parish Councillors)
Contacts:
- Dr Rebecca Herron – Director, Community Operational Research Unit rherron@lincoln.ac.uk
- Zoraida Mendiwelso Bendek – Citizenship Program & ESRC Capacity Building Cluster zbendek@lincoln.ac.uk
- Jennifer Jackson – Health & wellbeing, Health needs of offenders on probation and exercise referral jjackson@lincoln.ac.uk