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Christopher Durkin
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- Associate Director of the Northampton Institute of Urban Affairs at the University of Northampton.
Academic, Trainer, Lecturer, Registered Social Worker, Practice Teacher, Manager, Researcher, Consultant and Writer.
Interested in Community Development, Social Care and Social Work. Particularly interested in the importance of community to facilitate change, seeing the importance of a prevent agenda and the need to focus more attention on developing communities to address societies problems.
Over recent years I have becoming increasingly interested in Social Enterprises and social innovation and have co edited a book on Social Entrepreneurship which was published in June 2010:
Social Entrepreneurship: A skills approach Edited by Robert Gunn and Chris Durkin published by Policy Press
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RSA Animate - The Big Erase
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For those die-hard RSA Animate fans, here's a little glimpse at what we like to do after all that hard work. That's Andrew 'never knowingly-not-wearing-a-stripey-top' Park - the illustrator extraordinaire behind the RSA Animate images. For all those who've asked about prints and PDFs - they are available to download and buy on Cognitive Media's website. Cognitivemedia.co.uk
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