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The myplace Support Team Leading Practice Joe Stubbs
The myplace Support Team Leading Practice Joe Stubbs
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Joe Stubbs |
 Joe Stubbs is the web editor for the myplace programme and works for Hall Aitken in the Manchester office. 23 year old Joe is currently studying Journalism and Politics at the University of Salford and has published articles in the Guardian newspaper, as well as several local publications over the past few years.Joe grew up in Plymouth and, having left school at 18, set up a community engagement initiative with the aim of getting local young people and public, private and voluntary sector organisations talking about community improvement. He worked closely with the DfES and LSC on the National Post-16 Citizenship Development Initiative and ran several projects for the Home Office under the Together We Can and Civic Renewal programmes. He also worked closely with the UK Youth Parliament and Plymouth City Council to secure funding and land for Plymouth’s first permanent skateboard park. More recently, Joe has become addicted to blogging. ‘User-based and Citizen Journalism is going to be big in 2009’ reckons Joe, who is currently writing about a couple of 90-day experiments in his spare time. At this very moment, Joe is cutting out all fast food, alcohol, and much of the red meat he consumes, whilst undertaking a strict and unforgiving fitness regime. He’s also trying to get his head around Twitter and writing a dissertation on new media in the Middle East. Joe has climbed at least three of Dartmoor National Park’s lowest peaks and once ran to get to Sainsbury’s before it closed. He could swim to save his life, but only if the danger was within five meters of the shoreline. He once attempted hill walking for a local charity but suffered from hay fever a mile into the trek and regretfully had to pull out. ‘Being a student, most days getting out of bed is a pretty big achievement’ jokes Joe, who is struggling with resetting his body clock as a part of this fitness regime. He does however, enjoy reading and cooking; in fact he cooks food every night for his girlfriend and their four housemates. When he’s not in Manchester, Joe enjoys travelling back down to his mother’s house just inside Cornwall. ‘There was a pretty embarrassing situation with a plastic dingy and a rip tide last summer,’ Joe explains; ‘my twelve year old sister had to row us to safety whilst the mother was on the phone to the coastguard!’ He survived however, and continues to enjoy drinking real Cornish beer, on land, in the local, with his friends, to this day. 
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