The team brings together experience from across the myplace support team partners. It has three strands to its work. Firstly it identifies. Looking for examples both nationally and internationally of leading practice, showing what can be achieved. Secondly it promotes. Helping projects identify the steps towards leading practice. Through seminars, guides and the website the team helps projects connect ideas and push for leading practice across all areas of the projects. Finally it celebrates. Through a national conference and awards, the team will help projects celebrate their achievements and promote their work.
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Tags: Hall Aitken | leading practice | myplace support team  Denis is Research Director for Hall Aitken and is responsible for celebrating Lead Practice across the eight themes relating to the myplace programme. He is also responsible for evaluating the impact of the myplace funding on young people and communities.
Denis went to school in Aberdeen and then studied for a BSc in Town and Regional Planning in Dundee. In 2003, he started a part-time Masters in Local Economic Development at Glasgow University, funded by Hall Aitken. ‘It was a very useful course and highly relevant to my work’ says Denis, who finished his dissertation and graduated, with distinction, in summer 2008.
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Read more... [Denis Donoghue]
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Tags: Hall Aitken | leading practice | myplace support team  Ute Johnston is a Senior Consultant for Hall Aitken and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the myplace Leading Practice work. She also helps local authorities and their partners in the North East with developing youth capital strategies.
Ute grew up in Germany and did an apprenticeship in a bank before studying Betriebswirtschaftslehre (business administration) at the University of Pforzheim. Between getting her first degree and starting work for Hall Aitken, Ute worked for her parents' business, had a daughter, and slaved in a call centre in Edinburgh, dealing with angry mobile phone customers. She has also worked as a researcher for the Edinburgh Convention Bureau and, in 2001, achieved an MSc in Information Science at Strathclyde University.
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Tags: Hall Aitken | leading practice | myplace support team | website admin  I look after the myplace support website, updating and developing the content. I pull together from various sources, including our in-house journalist, all the latest news, information and support.
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Read more... [Katrina Watson]
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Tags: Hall Aitken | journalist | leading practice | myplace support team  I am an in-house journalist for the myplace Support Team. I have a first class honours degree in English Language w/ Film Studies from Bangor University, a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from Salford University, fully NCTJ trained (including 100 words/minute shorthand), and currently working towards my MA in Journalism from Salford University.
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Read more... [Chris Thomson]
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The myplace Support Team 
