In this session our guest speaker Melissa Lacide will introduce the Quality of Life Foundation's Framework and Code of Practice principles to help organisations explore opportunities for inclusive engagement in social housing and what this means for health and wellbeing when creating homes and neighbourhoods. There will also be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and explore tangible examples within a social housing context.
Free event tickets are for HDN Members ONLY
Free event tickets are for current mentors or mentees ONLY
These event tickets are for current tenants of HDN member organisations ONLY.
Senior Engagement Officer at Quality of Life Foundation
Melissa is passionate about community participation and quality in design, understanding the aspirations, connections and needs between people and places. She has wide-ranging experience working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders, managing client and partnership projects, and mapping social value across community investment.
Her career spans working in the social housing sector to establish community development and enable resident involvement; as a consultant practising participatory design; advising in placemaking and supporting stakeholders in community-led design; and, design research engagement at an architectural practice.
Melissa’s role at QOLF is to lead on their engagement work, ensuring it has a more positive impact on quality of life, especially inclusive of stakeholders who are most marginalised and underrepresented. Working across resident reviews, quality of life mapping, and stakeholders her role supports clients to work collaboratively, develop an engagement strategy, review and report on methodologies, and deliver projects across neighbourhoods.
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