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    <rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cornerstone Strategies</title><description></description><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk</link><language>en-gb</language><generator>MediaSterling ClickSimple™ </generator><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Phil_Kirby/default.aspx#115</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Phil_Kirby/default.aspx#115</guid><title>Phil Kirby</title><description> Phil Kirby has never had a proper job. Until his mid-twenties he was a full-time political activist campaigning for the likes of Anti-Apartheid, Youth CND, The Right to Work Campaign, and The Anti-Nazi League. He says he's never been so busy since. After University he became a volunteer for several mental health charities where he did everything from wiping bottoms and mopping vomit to handing out powerful neuro-toxic, anti-psychotic medications to his long suffering clients with absolutely no  ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:55:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/John_Jennings/default.aspx#98</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/John_Jennings/default.aspx#98</guid><title>  John Jennings </title><description> John Jennings is a director of Cornerstone. He has a successful record of working on both strategic policies and project work. Until 2005 he was Executive Director for Environmental Services at Durham City Council . In this capacity he was responsible for the Durham Millennium City Project, a 30m cultural regeneration for the City, a multiple award-winning scheme including the Civic Trust 2003. This was followed by the Heart of the City Development Framework , which to date has attracted some 3 ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:40:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/default.aspx#82</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/default.aspx#82</guid><title>Who we are</title><description> Susan Williamson heads up a collective of public and private sector specialist consultants. As a group we have years of experience working commercially in retail, leisure and cultural organisations independently for management, research and forecasting consultancies as public servants in local authorities as trusted advisors to civil and voluntary organisations and as academics and journalists </description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:28:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Building_Strategies-_I/Building_Strategies-_II/default.aspx#37</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Building_Strategies-_I/Building_Strategies-_II/default.aspx#37</guid><title>Building Strategies - II</title><description> Client Watford Borough Council working with EEDA , Arts Council East and the Watford Palace Theatre Brief We are considering creating a cultural quarter at the top of Watford town centre. Before we embark on a detailed masterplanning exercise, we wish to assess the strengths and weaknesses of Watford s current cultural offer, and to consider the scope for future developments. What is the optimum cultural offer Watford can sustain? And how can we drive up quality, increase choice and deliver a f ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:05:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tim_Marshall/default.aspx#114</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tim_Marshall/default.aspx#114</guid><title>Tim Marshall</title><description> Based in historic market town Saffron Walden, Tim Marshall has practiced as a commercial interior designer for the past eleven years across various contexts and in particular with listed and historical environments. He joins Cornerstone in their commitment to place-making and the celebration of usership, and the value this brings to cultural regeneration. This sense of place includes the interiors of bars and restaurants, hotels, offices, university colleges, retail premises and commercial kitc ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 13:14:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Ana_Godinho_de_Matos_/default.aspx#113</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Ana_Godinho_de_Matos_/default.aspx#113</guid><title>Ana Godinho de Matos </title><description> With degrees in journalism and anthropology cultural politics, Ana has turned her considerable interest in people towards film-making. She specialises in two areas; the anthropological narrative of documentary and vox pop, and observational and creative arts filming particularly of improvisational and action theatre. As well as practising film production, Ana also teaches it most recently to a group of young adults in Valencia, as part of the EC s Leonardo da Vinci programme. Credits and client ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 10:33:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Kevin_Rhowbotham/default.aspx#112</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Kevin_Rhowbotham/default.aspx#112</guid><title>Kevin Rhowbotham  M.S. (Cornell), Dip.Arch., B.A.(Hons.), A.R.B.U.K., R.I.B.A.  </title><description> Kevin Rhowbotham is an award-winning international architect, academic, broadcaster and author based in the UK. A Fulbright scholar, he graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University School of Architecture with a Masters in Architecture, with subsequent Doctoral studies at Cambridge University. His early career in teaching began at the Bartlett. Subsequently he was Visiting Professor of Urban Design at the Technical University Berlin in 1995 and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Urban Desi ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:31:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Partners/default.aspx#87</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Partners/default.aspx#87</guid><title>We also collaborate regularly with complementary companies whose values we share</title><description> Acton Shapiro Antennae BOP Consulting The Chambers David Lock Associates De Matos Storey Ryan Geoeconomics Locum Consulting McChesney Architects Plan Shared Intelligence the shining-red partnership 20|20 </description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:54:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Anna_Frisch/default.aspx#111</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Anna_Frisch/default.aspx#111</guid><title>Anna Frisch</title><description> Jaywalking through my professional life and my education, starting with theatre design (Berlin and New York), interior architecture (no soft furnishings just hard space), back to theatre, now writing, directing and producing, and a small portion of audio installations, curating, project managing and consultancy, the common denominator remains throughout my interest in the narrative of space. </description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:56:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Howard_Williamson/default.aspx#100</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Howard_Williamson/default.aspx#100</guid><title>Dr Howard Williamson</title><description> Dr Howard Williamson is Professor of European Youth Policy in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. He previous worked at the Universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Copenhagen, as well as being a practising youth worker for over 20 years. He has contributed to youth policy development in Wales, the UK and across the countries of the European Union and the Council of Europe. He is currently a member of the Youth Justice Board. He has pu ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:43:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/David_Papadopolous/default.aspx#108</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/David_Papadopolous/default.aspx#108</guid><title>David Papadopolous</title><description> David Papadopoulos manages a distinctive mix of activities that relate people, landscape and technology, based on his formal training in the social sciences, landscape architecture, and computer science. He combines an educator s interest in people and skills development with an engineer's concern for process and focus on getting things done. David also maintains an active interest in the art of repurposing materials and technology for personal and community benefit. A tutor in human geography  ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:42:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Kate_Oakley/default.aspx#102</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Kate_Oakley/default.aspx#102</guid><title>Kate Oakley</title><description> Kate Oakley is a writer and policy analyst, specialising in the knowledge economy, the creative industries and regional development. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, where she recently spent a semester teaching on the Master of Creative Industries course. While in Australia, she completed a national series of policy Masterclasses on Building Creative Regions . The workshops explored the issues of creative industry developmen ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:40:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Alex_McKie/default.aspx#104</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Alex_McKie/default.aspx#104</guid><title>Alex McKie</title><description> Alex McKie works as an agent of change helping organisations to adapt to the changes and challenges of the future. This covers writing on future trends, market and social research, scenario planning, workshop moderation and strategy development. Alex was responsible for the Henley Centre's European consumer research and futures programme - Frontiers: Planning for Consumer Change in Europe - identifying future trends and implications for business. She spent 16 years in advertising as a strategic ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:39:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tamar_Kasriel/default.aspx#103</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tamar_Kasriel/default.aspx#103</guid><title>Tamar Kasriel</title><description> Tamar Kasriel is a leading futurist, focusing on consumer and social trends. She recently founded a consultancy, Futureal, which specialises in helping companies understand and capitalise on the impacts of future consumer and market changes on their businesses. Prior to this she spent ten years at The Henley Centre, rising to become a Director and Head of Knowledge Venturing, where she honed her skills in the development of inspiring, agenda setting global consumer insight. Tamar has extensive  ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:38:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Martin_Hulse/default.aspx#106</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Martin_Hulse/default.aspx#106</guid><title>Martn Hulse</title><description> Martin Hulse is an associate consultant with Cornerstone. For the past seven years he has been working at the heart of physical development projects ensuring a commitment to design quality and sustainability. Initially this was from the point of view of the third sector where he was the Director of the Cockburn Association (The Edinburgh Civic Trust). To undertake the role of watchdog he operated a design review panel and worked closely with developers, architects, politicians and the local aut ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:29:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tom_Hayhoe/default.aspx#93</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tom_Hayhoe/default.aspx#93</guid><title>Tom Hayhoe</title><description> Tom Hayhoe is an associate consultant with Cornerstone. He received an MBA from Stanford before spending five years with strategic consultants McKinsey. He then worked for W H Smith as head of planning and as merchandise director for stationery and cards at W H Smith Retail. He subsequently worked as a project manager and consultant in retailing, consumer goods, distribution, business services and media, operating across all functions. Within the commercial sector, Tom's professional interests  ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:28:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Benjamin_Dent/default.aspx#105</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Benjamin_Dent/default.aspx#105</guid><title>Benjamin Dent</title><description> Ben specialises in the local food sector and supply chain management. In 2005, he was awarded a distinction by Imperial College London for his Masters degree in Business Management for the agriculture and food sectors. Since then, he has conducted research and consultancy work for both the public sector and private clients. These have included consumer attitudes to local food, improving the economic and social impact of farmers markets, and supermarkets local sourcing initiatives. Prior to this ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:46:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Beth_Davidson/default.aspx#107</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Beth_Davidson/default.aspx#107</guid><title>Beth Davidson</title><description> Beth Davidson has worked in the field of photographic and visual media production for over 20 years, specialising in youth, community and sport development. From 1992, Beth built up a large portfolio of work as Photographic Officer at North Kesteven District Council in Lincolnshire, managing an extensive programme of participatory projects and exhibitions throughout the county. In 2002, she moved back to her Northeastern roots and became an Associate at Durham City Arts, working extensively wit ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:44:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Understanding_Customers-_I/default.aspx#48</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Understanding_Customers-_I/default.aspx#48</guid><title>Understanding Customers - I</title><description> Client A major international leisure developer Brief We have a ground-breaking community leisure development in the Gulf, and part of its appeal is retail supporting the development. How do we ensure that the residential community - drawn by the leisure environment - gets the retail it needs and wants? What does community retail really mean in the Gulf s premium gated leisure communities? And where does the catchment for such niche retail start and stop? Approach Working through our network The ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:37:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><link>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Communicating_Change-_I/Communicating_Change-_II/default.aspx#43</link><guid>http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Communicating_Change-_I/Communicating_Change-_II/default.aspx#43</guid><title>Communicating Change - II</title><description> Client NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Brief We support the NHS to transform healthcare for patients and the public by rapidly developing and spreading new ways of working. We're looking for materials to challenge and inspire our multidisciplinary project teams - can you help ? Approach We produced a video case study of MediHome , a home-based nursing service based in West London. MediHome is innovative in three ways. 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