Stuart Hashagen

Stuart has worked in community development in Scotland for over 30 years - as a community planner in an early regeneration project, as a student unit organiser in a community work student unit, and since 1989 developing national programmes and projects.  His employers have included local authorities, a community organisation and a non-departmental public body.  His areas of interest include community development practice, community organisation development, health, planning and housing issues, regeneration and social inclusion.  He has produced two versions of the 'LEAP' framework, and co-authored the ABCD approach to community development, as well as writing articles and papers on community development and health issues.  He joined the Community Development Foundation in 1989 as Programme Manager for Scotland and worked with colleagues at the University of Glasgow to establish SCDC in 1993.  Since that time he has played the lead role in establishing the Community Health Exchange and LEAP Support Unit, and has co-directed training and support programmes, in particular Working Together: Learning Together (the national training programme for Social Inclusion Partnerships); Learning, Evalution and Planning; Meeting the Shared Challenge and Achieving Better Community Development..