Photo of speakers at the International Resilience Revolution Conference 2022 for engagement workers blog

With the International Resilience Resolution Conference now behind us, Boingboing Engagement Workers Grace, John, Lindsay, Charlotte, Lauren, Shannon discuss their favourite moments of the event that was held at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens.

Photo of the front of the Winter Gardens building for conference highlights blog

We thought we’d share conference highlights from some of the Boingboing team to capture what the conference felt like after all the hard work, so here’s some snippets of what people said.

Over the past two decades, the proportion of older prisoners in England and Wales has increased dramatically, which is problematic as prisons are not designed for issues associated with older adulthood. In this Resilience Forum Dr Warren Stewart will discuss the development of peer care in prisons in support of older adults and disabled detainees.

Blackpool Climate Co-Research Report 2022

This report has been co-produced by the Blackpool Youth Climate Group and research partners from Boingboing and the CRSJ to share their findings about what young people and adults in Blackpool think and feel about climate change.

Boingboing and the Resilience Revolution are launching round 2 of an exciting project that is about creating more ways for young people to take part in activity to change the odds – by becoming an Activist in Residence. Find out more here.

In this blog Adam, Mirika, Lisa, Gemma and Simon all got together to think about top tips they can share with you for including those with experience of disability in research teams. Perhaps you may want to use these top tips to start a discussion within your own research team, department, or organisation.

REMiT Toolkit For Young People And Parents And Carers 6

The Resilient Minds Toolkits are co-produced guides written by young people and parents/carers to support young people’s resilience and mental health. We have co-produced guides for both a Blackpool context and a national context. Find out more here.

Co Production in a pandemic

In this blog, Lindsay, Grace and Kie, three young people liing in Blackpool and all aged 21, would like to tell you about the wonders of being involved in co-production during a global pandemic, and the impact it has had on their lives.

Gemma is an autistic Early Career Researcher based at the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice, University of Brighton and a Boingboing volunteer. In this blog Gemma talks about her PhD research, and what she plans to do over the coming year of her fellowship under Prof. Angie Hart’s mentorship.

Illustration of a laptop on a green background. On the laptop screen is a hand holding a megaphone and the Houses of Parliament

Now we are moving out of the Covid-19 pandemic, with many of us still working from home with no real prospect of in-person events, conferences, lobbies and the like, disability rights campaigner Simone Aspis is asking what will happen to our community and our ability to affect social change in the future.

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