Stuart Hashagen (continued) 

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 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 Manager and later Director for Scotland and worked with colleagues at the University of Glasgow to establish SCDC in 1993.  Since that time he played the lead role in establishing the Community Health Exchange and LEAP Support Unit, and co-directed training and support programmes, in particular Working Together: Learning Together (the national training programme for Social Inclusion Partnerships); Learning, Evaluation and Planning; the National Standards for Community Engagement, Meeting the Shared Challenge and Achieving Better Community Development.

He is honorary Research fellow at the University of Glasgow, and chairs the community regeneration committee of a housing association in Glasgow. 

Stuart's current interests are: Community responses to sectarianism; community food projects and their local impact; community development and public service reform; building community capability and resilience; community development and poverty across Europe; mobilising communities for improving health.