Regeneration and its Management

Seminar Content

This seminar allows participants to concentrate on some of the management practices, processes and functions encountered in regeneration. By the end of the module participants should be able to map out a regeneration project in light of a changing social and economic environment; consider aspects of human resource deployment and financial management in regeneration; examine the extent to which innovation and entrepreneurial thinking is appropriate in regeneration.

As there is no single cause to deprivation those who have to 'manage' regeneration are often faced with a multitude of social and economic problems that blight many communities in the UK. In some instances projects may be organised to reflect the organisation leading the initiative; in other instances this will not be the case. Regeneration professionals will have likely experienced top down bureaucracy in some form whether in the private or public sector, coupled with a desire to be more flexible to partnership working and responsive to the needs of communities. Projects demand therefore a certain level of skill and competence in the management of regeneration and this seminar faces the challenges such a demand throws up.

Tutor

Dr Alan Southern

Seminar Learning Objectives

1. To examine a regeneration project and map it out in terms of the participants' own experience.
2. To relate changing social and economic circumstances to the task of mapping a regeneration project.
3. To consider aspects of human resource deployment in a regeneration project.
4. To consider aspects of financial management in a regeneration project.
5. To examine the extent to which innovation and entrepreneurial thinking is appropriate in regeneration.

Seminar Learning Outcomes

1. Map out a regeneration project, taking into account changing social and economic environments.
2. Understand and apply aspects of human resource deployment.
3. Understand and apply aspects of financial management.
4. Express an opinion about the extent to which innovation and entrepreneurial thinking is appropriate in regeneration.