English Coastal Classification Workshops: Understanding Research and Policy Needs of Coastal Communities – Towards a Co-designed Coastal Classification

Exploring the potential benefits of creating a coastal classification system
St Ives, Cornwall

  • Online via Microsoft Teams

  • Online via Microsoft Teams

  • Online via Microsoft Teams

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Led by researchers at the University's Centre for Coastal Communities, 'Understanding the research and policy needs of English coastal communities: towards a new coastal classification' is a project focused on analysing and classifying the economic, social, cultural, historical, and geographic characteristics of English coastal communities to highlight, understand and communicate more effectively their diverse research and policy needs.
The project responds to the recognised lack of data regarding the detailed characteristics of coastal communities and how they relate to their wider localities and regions.
The January workshops will focus exclusively on the Coastal England Small Area (CESA) data portal we are developing to support the coastal classification. Attendees will be given a link to the portal in advance of the workshop to trail it. Please remember it is in development and only hosts limited datasets at present.
Specifically, the discussions will explore:
  1. How the portal will be used to support the work that you are doing? What are you looking to do/achieve with the data?
  2. What spatial scale of the data is most useful? Lower Super Output Areas, Middle Super Output Areas, Built Up Areas and /or all?
  3. What do we do with the ‘rural’ parts of the coastline(e.g., inter-tidal areas, marshes, and cliffs). Ignore or include?
  4. What output would you like to obtain from the data portal?
  5. Are there aspects of the data analysis that you feel you cannot do yourself?
  6. Are there aspects of data analysis that you would be willing to pay for?
We will also be demonstrating an updated version of the portal and would like to capture your thoughts on its useability and potential value to your work.
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Participation and registration

Participation and registration

The workshops are aimed at academics, local authorities, the voluntary, care and social enterprise sector, not-for-profit organisations and charities, community/ special interest groups, NHS managers of health inequalities and non-clinical service providers, and local citizens.
You will need to give informed consent (please click here) as a condition of registering for this event and booking your place.
Once you have registered and providing you have provided positive consent to all questions, we will then send out a Teams link to the workshop you have selected to attend.

Dates

Workshops will be held on the following dates and times.
• Monday 20 January, 15:00–16:30: South/South West region
• Friday 24 January, 12:30–14:00: South/South East region
• Monday 27 January, 14:00–15:30: North East/North West region
If you have any questions, please email englishcoastalclassification@plymouth.ac.uk.

Centre for Coastal Communities

The University's Centre for Coastal Communities brings together one of the few critical masses of academic researchers in any UK university, who have a proven track record on coastal communities and strong collaborative links with public, private and third sectors. Working with our partners, we are uniquely placed to co-ordinate problem identification and co-create solutions, committing to an area of research that traditionally has seen limited investigation of the problems.
Our mission is to advance new approaches and transform thinking to address 21st-century challenges facing coastal communities.
Centre for Coastal Communities

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