About Janet Ubido and Lisa Jones

Janet Ubido, Researcher at the Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University. Carries out research funded by the Directors of Public Health from a group of nine local authorities in the North West of England. j.ubido@ljmu.ac.uk

Lisa Jones, Reader in Public Health in the Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University. Leads the Public Health Institute's programme of work in Evidence Synthesis.

Developing Resilient Communities within Cities

Progress needs to be made in the evaluation of approaches to developing resilient communities. The evidence base for the effectiveness of these approaches is currently lagging behind practice. Funding for evaluation is generally too short-term to offer scope for capturing the developmental nature of community resilience related activity and evaluations on wider outcomes are lacking.