Workshop Title:
A Crash Course in Planning and Implementation of Community Indicators Projects
Instructors:
M. Joseph Sirgy and Rhonda Phillips
Date and Time: Monday, August 10; 9:00am-1:00pm
Location: University of Kentucky (room TBA)
Fee:
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$35 USD (ISQOLS Members)/$20 USD (Student, Retired, Developing Country ISQOLS Members);
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$50 USD (Non-ISQOLS members)/$35 USD (Student, Retired, Developing Country non-ISQOLS Members)
Workshop Description: The proposed workshop introduces well-being/QOL researchers and practitioners to the burgeoning research on the science and practice of community indicators projects. The workshop is designed to provide an overview of the following areas of community (local and regional) indicators projects:
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Why indicators? An introduction to key concepts
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Theory in practice - foundations guiding community indicators projects
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Organizing principles of community indicators projects
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Whose input? Making decisions about community quality-of-life dimensions and indicators
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By the numbers - data collection, analysis, and reporting
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Promoting the use and application of community indicators reports
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What happens next? Follow-up activities to ensure continuity and growth
Activities and Duration: The proposed workshop is an in-person seminar, seminar-style, with instructor-participant interaction and exercises. The proposed workshop can be scheduled as a full-day session or truncated to a half-day session as needed.
Reading Material: This workshop will be based on Sirgy, M. Joseph (2022). Community quality-of-life Indicators: A guide for community indicators projects. Cham: Springer Nature and various sources from the Springer Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being book series, https://link.springer.com/series/13761, formerly edited by Rhonda Phillips.
Instructors’ Bios
M. Joseph Sirgy: Joe is a management psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979) and the Virginia Tech Real Estate Professor Emeritus of Marketing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA) and Extraordinary Professor at the Work-Well Research Unit at North-West University – Potchefstroom Campus (South Africa). He has published extensively on quality of life (QOL). He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), served as its Executive Director/Treasurer, and as development Co-Director. He received the Distinguished Fellow Award from ISQOLS. In 2003, ISQOLS honored him as the Distinguished QOL Researcher for research excellence and a record of lifetime achievement in QOL research. He helped co-found the Community Indicators Consortium and served on its board. He co-founded the journal, Applied Research in Quality of Life. ISQOLS honored him for excellence and lifetime service to the society. He won several Best Paper Awards in the Journal of Happiness Studies. He was awarded the EuroMed Management Research Award for outstanding achievements and groundbreaking contributions to well-being and quality-of-life research. He was recognized by the Program in Real Estate at Virginia Tech with the Blackwood Award for Exemplary Faculty Service and with the Founding Faculty Award. Also, he was the co-editor of ISQOLS/Springer book series on International Handbooks in QOL, Community QOL Indicators: Best Cases, Applied Research in QOL: Best Practices. He is currently the editor of Springer book series on Human Well-Being and Policy Making. To know more about Joe Sirgy, please visit his personal website at https://sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/joe-sirgy-personal-website/
Rhonda Phillips: Rhonda’s research and outreach efforts focus on community quality of life and well-being. A specialist in community development and planning, she was recognized for her career achievements with induction into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP). She is the author and editor of numerous books focusing on making the places we live better for all, including The Handbook of Community Well-Being; The Handbook of Community Development, Perspectives from Across the Globe; Sustainable Communities, Creating a Durable Local Economy; Community Development Indicators Measuring Systems; and the text, Introduction to Community Development. Rhonda served as founding Editor-in-Chief of two journals, Local Development & Society (Taylor & Francis) and International Journal of Community Well-Being. Her work in community indicators and well-being has spanned several decades, and she has served on the Board of Directors of the Community Indicator Consortium and as president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies.
