Kevin Sheridan joined IHHD in May 2006 and is currently Director of Community Engagement. He leads the Community Engagement process, Job Brokerage and Social Enterprise project, and Multimedia Documentation project for the Well London programme (Well London) in which IHHD is a partner, as well as being borough lead in 4 Well London boroughs. The Well London programme is a 5 year BIG Lottery funded project in some of the most deprived areas across 20 London boroughs with the aim to improve mental wellbeing, access to healthy diet, and opportunities to do more physical activity. In the last two years, the Community Engagement team at IHHD, lead by Kevin has carried out nearly 100 Community Engagements across London using various engagement methodologies including World Cafe, Appreciative Inquiry & Visual mapping workshops. Kevin also has extensive experience of large scale qualitative and quantitative surveys, and of community engagement methodologies.

Over the last three decades, Kevin has worked variously as a Researcher (Academic, TV, Print & Website Production), as a media practitioner (TV, Print & Website Production), and as a teacher of further, higher and adult levels. His first degree is in Urban and Regional Planning at Oxford Brookes, and his MSc is in Computing Science from Birkbeck College. Recent academic research has included coordinating major research projects into the condition and needs of the Bangladeshi population in Paddington, and an assessment of the barriers to service access of seven BME communities across ten domains such as Health, Housing, Employment etc in Westminster for the Department of Social Science and Medicine at Imperial College. This work included training BME community members to carry out qualitative and quantitative surveys, and bringing together and maintaining stakeholders from all sectors to oversee the research direction.

• Community Engagement Methodologies
• How to embed community engagement into public service planning cycles
• Participatory priority setting
• Community Development approaches to health promotion and behaviour change
• Community-based participatory research
• The Health aspects of sustainable development and communities
• Physical barriers to healthy lifestlyes
• Health and Income Inequalities
• Using arts and culture as a tool to promote healthy and cohesive communities
• Developing models to assess the health needs of small areas
• Evaluating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of community development approaches to health promotion
• Needs assessment of BME communities

Current and recently completed projects

• Well London Community Engagement, Job Brokerage and Social Enterprise, and Multimedia Documentation
• Borough Lead for Well London in Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Waltham Forest
• The health and well-being effects of socially mixed housing developments: a review of international evidence and three new case studies
• Eastern European Needs Assessment in Barking & Dagenham
• Community Engagement process for Healthy Redbridge

Publications (recent)

Bertotti, M, Adams-Eaton F, Sheridan, K and Renton, A (forthcoming) “Key Barriers to Community Cohesion: Views from Residents of 20 London Deprived Neighbourhoods”, accepted in GeoJournal

Reports

Sheridan, K, Adams-Eaton F, Bertotti, M., Tobi, P. Sadare O (2007-8) Well London Appreciative Inquiry and Community Café Reports for 20 LSOAs.

Sheridan, K, Adams-Eaton F, Bertotti, M (2008) Well London Community Engagement Reports for 11 Phase 2 LSOAs.

Sheridan, K., Estacio, E.V., Tobi, P., Berzins, K., Adams-Eaton, F., and Bertotti, M (2008) Healthy Redbridge: Less Well-off Neighbourhoods Community Engagement & Mapping Report for NHS Redbridge.

Estacio, E.V., Renton, A., Tobi, P., Sheridan, K., Schmidt, E., Adams-Eaton, F., Berzins, K., Yu, G. (2009) Healthy Redbridge Less Well-off Neighbourhoods. A Household Survey for NHS Redbridge

Sheridan, K. (2007) Internal Working Paper - Community Development Approaches to Health Promotion

Sheridan, K., Renton, A. (2004)

Sheridan, K., Renton, A. (2002)

Presentations

Sheridan, K (2008) 10 (or more) Principles for Well London LSOA Project Portfolios – findings from the Well London Community Engagement process at The Well London Consortium Portfolio Workshops

Sheridan, K (2008) Findings of Well London Community Cafés presented at 20 Well London Community Action Workshops across London

Sheridan, K (2008) Findings of the Healthy Redbridge Community Engagement Process presented at LB Redbridge Health Cluster Conference

Sheridan, K (2008) Findings of the Healthy Redbridge Community Engagement Process and recommendations for action presented at 4 Community Feedback sessions across Redbridge as part of Healthy Redbridge