{"id":1281,"date":"2019-02-12T15:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2019-03-05T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:28:51","slug":"week-2-nutc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2019\/02\/12\/week-2-nutc\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 Log &#8211; NUTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Log week 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week we have welcomed Ben and Miki, who has become members to the NUTC. We also met with one of our project partners, Ali Lamb, who is the Engagement officer at Newcastle City Council. She talked a bit about her role and the project proposal for Heaton Road, as well as informed us about where it stands today. We then asked a couple of questions regarding the project and got together to identify the main stakeholders and the long-term goals what we want to achieve through a number of objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The main stakeholders<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the help of Alis intel, we have done a mind map that presents the main stakeholders as well as their opposition towards the project proposal. The colour \u2018Red\u2019 represents the group that disagrees with the proposal, \u2018Green\u2019 represents the group that agrees with it and \u2018Yellow\u2019 represents the group who still remains undecided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/QUqxM4DqQXQ74I9laRX21N4M7sfdCsq4sO_nGPTvkJW3-o1kEiqO35FhcpgAUxwhzsirBIaAw6ZYW-pm12urLeqbx8JA42X2JTwrGmI8UVc4vrDpxgf7-wXjJJUzLuIzcTW0li5g\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The stakeholders that disagree with the project proposal are: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents along Heaton Road<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Services and facilities, such as Heaton medicals and Rugby\/Cricket Pitch (University\u2019s Sports ground)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Corner House Pub<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The People\u2019s Theatre<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The churches, e.g. St Gabriel, and the mosque<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One reason to this has to do with them losing a number of parking spaces they will be facing. The stakeholder that would benefit from this cycle route project, and hence agree are: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The primary\/secondary schools, who look for safe alternatives for their children to get to school, e.g. St Mary\u2019s catholic school<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freeman Hospital<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Tax Office HM Revenue &amp; Customs, who has over 10.000 employees<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cycling groups<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Streets for people<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The elective counselors important stakeholder, who also have the final say on which scheme goes forward, they support this project. Although, they are also heading towards an election so the project will be presented to the public afterwards.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Aims and objectives<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within our last blog we questioned what the actual form of the project would be, the state of the current situation and how connected it will be in the end. These were all answered by Ali and she helped us to understand the objectives of the project more along with the main aims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aims:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advertising a cycling route <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for all<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and not only the existing minority of cyclists today<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Convince the resistant stakeholders of the advantages with this project<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Objectives to achieve the aims:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Site visit<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read findings report<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find other alternative transportation\/parking options<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Start with the concepts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Next Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based upon the latest lecture we believe our next step is to focus on user research and how it would be more effective towards the outcome of the project if we have a plan for it beforehand. After speaking with Ali Lamb we have concluded that the website common place and the public platform streets for people will be the best way for us to conduct our research and gain a greater understanding of the public&#8217;s views on the subject matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another next step we have considered is participating in a site visit to Heaton Road and beginning to survey some of stakeholders within the area, for example the local church, schools and businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using this diagram we intend to analyse the stakeholders and see their weighting within the project and see how we should act upon their perspectives on the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/J3ZeGMXxS8gjYS30HHB1Cw1EjtYJiG_fUTZWT_vKRBbc-1QjKzomxat8o4wV8DPZtEvYDR8LUgFsEZG8Yp8WMv-5b_25dAWIx0XVr3AE\" width=\"347\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week helped us to truly understand the main goal of the project and how we will play a role in the final outcome. Besides the research and site visit we now hope to also develop an understanding of what the best approach would be towards our users and how to get the most beneficial outcome from anyone involved in the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Log week 2 This week we have welcomed Ben and Miki, who has become members to the NUTC. We also met with one of our project partners, Ali Lamb, who is the Engagement officer at Newcastle City Council. She talked a bit about her role and the project proposal for Heaton Road, as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2019\/02\/12\/week-2-nutc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 2 Log &#8211; NUTC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7931,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background-research-and-goal-setting","category-project-goals","category-team-nutc-18-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}