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Participative transformation?
I have recently written a book review of Participative transformation learning and development in practising change, by Roger Klev and Morten Levin in the Journal Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015 They propose that given the challenges of the uncertainty … Continue reading
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Better by Design
Research for Real has been selected, in partnership with Animate, to act as a Learning Partner to the Young Foundation and Taylor Haig in the 2 year BIG funded project Better by Design, which will be supporting 15 voluntary organisations in … Continue reading
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Improvisation and the art of change
At a Total Place event today we were reminded “the revolution will be improvised”. A catchy meme for sure which reminded me of an article I’ve read some time ago by Frank J Barrett. He makes the point that there are lots … Continue reading
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Really useful evidence?
Recently I was at the same event as Jackie Killeen, Director of the Big Lottery in Scotland. It was great to hear her say this: “At BIG we have some positive experience of being able to find and utilise evidence … Continue reading
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Don’t do it unless you have to?
We know that multi-agency partnership working is difficult. “Collaboration is by nature inefficient. It is only sensible to collaborate if real collaborative advantage can be envisaged. The strongest piece of advice, therefore, is ‘don’t do it unless you have to’”. … Continue reading
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How to create an appetite for evidence……
I’m just back from a very interesting gathering of folk who find evidence use fascinating and want to see more of it. We at least seemed to agree that we want to create more of an appetite for evidence and want … Continue reading
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