research-l Mailing List: Helen Jarvis UK Cohousing RE: Hello, Welcome and Invitation to everyone

[Helen Jarvis (helen.jarvis]

This is a great idea Neil. 

My name is Helen Jarvis and I am based in the UK. I live and work in Newcastle 
upon Tyne (far North East of England): I am a social scientist (urban social 
geography) at Newcastle University with a special interest in cohousing as one 
specific expression of community-led housing and the wider umbrella of 
intentional communities (my focus is on urban grassroots housing, especially 
where there is an affordability/ social justice and innovative social/mutual 
dimension; I'm also interested in low impact innovation and post occupancy 
evaluations but again more from the socio-technical than the pure technical 
architectural ecological dimensions). 
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/helenjarvis.html#background

I am a non-executive board member of the UK Cohousing Network and on this board 
I have an equivalent responsibility for the research network side to Neil and 
Angela. 
In terms of my knowledge/appreciation of US cohousing I've periodically visited 
projects on the West Coast since 2001 (because I have a parent/sibling living 
in Washington and Oregon states) and I visited a handful of cohousing 
communities in Virginia in 2010 (thanks to Ann Zabaldo as my guide) - but 
otherwise most of the networking I have engaged in has been in Europe (also in 
2010/11 in Australia).  I convened a 2 year, 6 event international 
academic-practitioner ESRC funded seminar series in the UK.   

I hope to attend the 2017 National Cohousing Conference in Nashville to 
reconnect with cohousing developments in the USA - specifically to draw 
comparisons and lessons on 'mainstreaming' affordability, plus on retrofitted 
cohousing/ serendipitous examples of collaboration and sharing of housing and 
community assets.  

Here in the UK I am also part of a forming cohousing community, CoHUT 
(Cohousing upon Tyne) http://cohousing.org.uk/group/cohousing-upon-tyne-cohut. 
 


Dr. Helen Jarvis 
Reader in Urban Social Geography
Newcastle University
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Room 3.70, Daysh Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

T: +44(0)191 208 6959 (ext 86959)
E: helen.jarvis [at] ncl.ac.uk
W: www.ncl.ac.uk/gps
Twitter: @communityvita
http://collaborativehousing.net/

-----Original Message-----
From: research-l [mailto:research-l-bounces+helen.jarvis=newcastle.ac.uk [at] 
cohousingresearchnetwork.org] On Behalf Of Neil Planchon
Sent: 02 December 2016 20:39
To: Helen Jarvis <helen.jarvis [at] newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: [research-l] Hello, Welcome and Invitation to everyone

Hello everyone and Happy Friday!

A special welcome to our brand new subscribers!
David P
Ana ?
David C
Kristen S
Abeer J
Susan S
Morten H
and
Teresa M

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Getting to know you…
I, and I know others on Cohousing Research Network’s (CRN) Core team, would 
love to learn more about all the folks on this list.  There are 40 of us on 
this list now!  So, I invite you all to share a little about yourself.  Here 
are some suggestions?

Where you are geographically located? (Country/City) What Cohousing, 
Intentional or other community do you live in?

What interest you about Cohousing and the CRN?

What would you like to talk about, share and learn?
How would you like to contribute to CRN?

Anything else you’d like to add?

I/We look forward to hearing from you all!

Thank you
Neil
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Neil Planchon CPCC
Certified Co-Active Life Coach
Director, OpenOakland (Code for America) - https://www.openoakland.org Founding 
Resident of Swan's Market Cohousing - http://www.swansway.com Cohousing 
Research Network - Core Team/Technology - 
http://www.cohousingresearchnetwork.org
Longtime volunteer and former staff/board member of the Cohousing Association 
of the US - http://www.cohousing.org More here 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nplanchon



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