Your City Your Voice Belfast, Community Consultation for Quality of Life Local Project Report, Belfast:Urban Rooms, Public Engagement Pilot: 2 Royal Avenue, September 2022

Local Belfast-pilot focused report on the Your City Your Voice Belfast (YCYVB) Urban Room; consultation research that included a month-long public pilot in Belfast during September 2022 as part of Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQOL), an Arts & Humanities Research Council funded UK-wide project, led by University of Reading with Ulster University, Cardiff University, and The University of Edinburgh as Co-Investigators. CCQOL as a collaborative international partnership project seeks to develop new map-based models of community consultation (as more effective, early engagement); face-to-face and digital places for people to share their views more easily and safely about what they value in their local area, to help improve quality of life for everyone.Together with an Inclusive Toolkit, created by the CCQOL team with project partner Urban Symbiotics, the YCYVB research aimed to create opportunities to better assess social and environmental value through collective and co-created knowledge with “quality-of-life” as a central and positive approach to:• Promote a holistic view of land use, using maps and open data for more democratic decision-making in planning.• Develop best practice guidelines for community consultation and engagement; to widen participation to, for example, tackle social justice and liveability issues.CCQOL pilots in each UK region were created as opportunities for local people to share their own feelings about what they value in their city and neighbourhood areas. Each pilot used bespoke digital maps to measure and assess how people viewed and were consulted about local changes and what aspects of their neighbourhood and/or city they valued – seeking to engage with positive discussions based on social and environmental value through Quality-of-Life mapping, rather than more negative-comment-driven approaches. This report captures the events, reflections, lessons and initial recommendations from the pilot project, which are supplemented by final project recommendations and literature in a National Report from December 2023

Belfast THRI[VES]: Transformative Health and Regeneration Initiatives [for Vibrancy, Equality, and Sustainability]:Project Report

Belfast THRI[VES] is a pilot collaboration between Ulster University’s Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment, the School of Psychology, and Bamford Centre for Mental Health &amp; Wellbeing, working with Operational Partners from Belfast City Council’s City Regeneration &amp; Development Division and The Department for Infrastructure. The project was funded through Belfast City Council via the Department for Communities COVID-19 Recovery Revitalisation Programme, and the Department for Infrastructure. This report represents the overall project findings, literature reviews, case studies, lessons and recommendations. Examining how the City Centre can be an improved, inclusive, and innovative place for future generations, THRI[VES] argues for liveability as a unique framework to evaluate and deliver projects within and/or impacting on the public realm, primarily, through enhanced wellbeing priorities. It also investigates the role of public-private engagement to reframe wellbeing-based criteria and more effectively connect statutory and tactical regeneration process to more informal bottom-up evidence-based considerations that can collectively address and develop innovative solutions to tackle health, climate-change, and socio-economic stresses. Four objectives structure the synthesis and presentation of report findings to:• Assist Council-Executive goals to develop effective public decision-making processes to reimagine greener, healthier, more vibrant city spaces (in line with A Bolder Vision aspirations).• Identify areas for improved cross-sector data-sharing on wellbeing, sustainability, and resilience.• Develop evidence-based proposals to improve public-space policy and decision-making.• Propose new data-sharing platforms and future collaborations to inform more effective evidence-based policy, design, and post-evaluation of new public realm projects for wellbeing.Focusing on Belfast city centre, primary evidence, literature reviews, and international precedents provide wider lessons about urban governance and place-management at different scales of development including: • smaller projects (pop-ups, parklets, and meanwhile type examples) • neighbourhood-wide visioning and masterplanning proposals, and• city-wide to regional and national planning and regeneration project development policy.The above project levels, discussed in report examples, acknowledge how all development and policy are interconnected, impacted by complex spatial and community decisions for local/national governing bodies. The report highlights a need for greater shared understandings and collaboration amongst all policymakers, professionals, and the public about the terms, data, and co-production processes that inform both urban and rural development. The findings, discussions, and summary recommendations – set out below and expanded upon in the concluding chapter- are thus seen as a starting point to help improve placemaking for greater liveability and sustainable livelihood in Belfast and all villages, towns, and city centres. Ulster University Academic Research Team and Belfast City Council PartnersBelfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment:Dr Saul Golden, PI, Lecturer in Architecture &amp; Spatial DesignDr Gavan Rafferty, Co-I Lecturer in Spatial Planning and DevelopmentProfessor Gerry Leavey, Co-I, Director, Bamford Centre for Mental Health and WellbeingBelfast City Council City Regeneration &amp; Development Dr Callie Persic, Development Manager Ms Niamh Mulrine, Regeneration Project Officer<br/

CCQOL-YourCityYourVoiceBelfast, Quality of Life Workshop: A Belfast Perspective:Community Consultation for Quality of Life

During the CCQOL-YourCityYourVoiceBelfast residency at 2Royal Avenue, Belfast in September 2022 a workshop was hosted with Ulster University, The Quality of Life Foundation, members of the public, and people from NI businesses, community groups, the PSNI, and local government. The event gathered local perspectives on the terms and values associated with quality of life and consultation for Belfast.Visual map-based activities with six Quality of Life Foundation based themes (Control, Health, Nature, Wonder, Movement and Belonging) focus the workshop on how Ulster University (in its new Belfast city centre campus) might apply CCQOL lessons toward improving qualities of life in surrounding neighbourhoods, across Belfast, and beyond. Lessons were picked up in a June 2023 Local Report, published by Dr Saul M Golden as the Belfast Academic Lead. Further recommendations and a review of consultation in Northern Ireland more generally are picked up separately in both a Local Project report from June 2023 and a National Report from December 2023.The video can also be viewed directly on Vimeo using the link: https://vimeo.com/89327586

A research agenda for malaria eradication: vaccines.

Contains fulltext : 97591.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Vaccines could be a crucial component of efforts to eradicate malaria. Current attempts to develop malaria vaccines are primarily focused on Plasmodium falciparum and are directed towards reducing morbidity and mortality. Continued support for these efforts is essential, but if malaria vaccines are to be used as part of a repertoire of tools for elimination or eradication of malaria, they will need to have an impact on malaria transmission. We introduce the concept of "vaccines that interrupt malaria transmission" (VIMT), which includes not only "classical" transmission-blocking vaccines that target the sexual and mosquito stages but also pre-erythrocytic and asexual stage vaccines that have an effect on transmission. VIMT may also include vaccines that target the vector to disrupt parasite development in the mosquito. Importantly, if eradication is to be achieved, malaria vaccine development efforts will need to target other malaria parasite species, especially Plasmodium vivax, where novel therapeutic vaccines against hypnozoites or preventive vaccines with effect against multiple stages could have enormous impact. A target product profile (TPP) for VIMT is proposed and a research agenda to address current knowledge gaps and develop tools necessary for design and development of VIMT is presented