A project run in partnership between GAP Unit, Community Pride Unit, Takepart Pathfinders, Salford City Council and the Community Audit and Evaluation Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University. Funded by the Transformation Fund.
 
A free accredited course training local people in Salford as Community Researchers, looking at issues around gender and inclusion. The six sessions will start in January 2010 at the Ordsall Neighbourhood office, with all participants registered as Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) students. They will carry out their own fieldwork in the community to practice the skills they have learned and will receive a certificate of attendance from MMU as well as course credits if required.
 
The training is an informal education project aimed at local women and men interested in working with people from different groups in their areas, and who want to promote community inclusion and participation.
 
 
Participants will be trained in:
 
Designing questionnaires
Interviewing
Communication and facilitation skills
Conducting focus groups
Processing and analysing data
Writing reports and presentation skills -
     putting your case together and who to present it to
Practical and ethical issues in carrying out research,
     such as confidentiality and personal safety
 
Inclusion and gender equality issues