The Geddes Centre for Planning Research (GCPR) acts to co-ordinate the development and management of regional databases on strategic and local land use planning, the physical and built environments, labour and housing markets. It acts as a focus for applied research in the Tay region.

The Social Inclusion Partnership Monitoring and Evaluation Unit has been established within the Geddes Centre for Planning Research to undertake the monitoring and evaluation of the Dundee Social Inclusion Partnership programmes. It comprises academics involved in policy evaluation and urban regeneration and is managed by Mr Keith Fernie, Research Fellow, who is seconded from Dundee City Council.

The SIP Monitoring and Evaluation Unit publishes papers concerned with different aspects of Social Inclusion Partnership research including concepts, methodologies and development; issues and policy; implementation and monitoring and evaluation.

The following catagorises the range of publications currently produced:

• Conceptual and Development Papers provide a description and outline of the research design, methodology and associated technical structure adopted in the implementation and development of the monitoring and evaluation framework

• Issue Papers set out to strategically examine monitoring data and provide more in-depth analysis of the individual themes of the SIP strategy and other key issues across a geographical hierarchy of assessment.

• Policy Papers are based around the critical analysis of issues, policy development and other legislative change at the meso and macro levels in the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.

• Area and Poverty Profiles describe the Social Inclusion Area and its constituent communities in terms of the four themes of the strategy

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The publications listed above provide information, advice and guidance on monitoring and evaluation topics based around and relevant to SIP research activity in this field. It is specifically geared to Partnership organisation and the community and voluntary sectors involved in this area and/or practitioners with a similar interest including other academic bodies. For further information please contact the Unit at 01382 345048 or e-mail: k.fernie@dundee.ac.uk