Barking Riverside Healthy New Town Research & Innovation Summit

Event date

Description

This is an invitation only-event for researchers, innovators and other Healthy New Towns (opens new window) sites across England.

Barking Riverside (opens new window) is one of the most ambitious and important new developments in the UK and an NHS England designated Healthy New Towns (opens new window) demonstrator site. We aim to design and deliver interventions which increase healthy life expectancy, reduce health inequalities, and support inclusion and healthy ageing for all those living and working in the locality. An important first step is the agreement of 10 Healthy New Town Planning Principles for Barking Riverside. You can read about these here (opens new window).

The Research and Innovation Summit will bring together researchers, innovators and practitioners in health and care, planning, urban design and related disciplines to share their knowledge and expertise about what works to make places healthy and inclusive. Together, we will explore opportunities for collaboration in future research and innovation which will further test and broaden the evidence via learning from the Barking Riverside development.

This will be an Open Space event, with maximum opportunities for interaction. A Showcase area will highlight some of the good practice we have already identified across urban resilience, healthy ageing, housing, community leadership, and health and care services.

More information about Barking Riverside Healthy New Town and the Summit can be found here.

To register, please contact Rachel Fuller via rachelfuller@pinpoint-events.co.uk

Programme

09.30 Registration opens

  • Research and innovation showcase

10.30 Welcome on behalf of Barking Riverside Healthy New Town partnership

  • Keynote address - Nick Tyler CBE, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, University College London

10.50 Break and opportunity for Armistice Day reflection

11.25 Open Space: Healthy place-making and achieving our vision for Barking Riverside as a place which is healthy for all who live and work in the locality.

1. What do we know?

2. What are we working on now?

3. What would we love to work on?

13.00 Lunch and Showcase

  • Complementing the Open Space forum, good practice and innovation across themes of urban resilience, healthy ageing, housing, community leadership, and health and care services will be showcased.

13.45 Matchmaking

  • What have we learned?
  • How can we work together?

15.00 Concluding session

15.30 Wrap

Audience

Researchers, Innovators and Healthy New Town sites across England

Booking Terms

This is a free event, however it is invite only. Should you be interested in attending, please email rachelfuller@pinpoint-events.co.uk