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Leeds GATE
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Asset-based community development work to improve the quality of life for Gypsy and Traveller people in West Yorkshire.
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An Untold Story Hull
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To provide a responsive, flexible and person-centred service to women street sex workers in Hull and also conduct research to chart women’s journeys into prostitution.
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Agenda
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A cross-sector alliance working to change the way services respond to women and girls who have experienced extensive abuse and multiple disadvantage.
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Centre for Criminal Appeals
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The Centre for Criminal Appeals is a legal action charity that fights miscarriages of justice and demands reform. Through investigation, litigation and advocacy, the Centre stands up for individual victims of wrongful conviction and unfair...
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Light Despite the Darkness
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“The best we can hope for with these people is to keep them alive” I remember it like it was yesterday, the shock that someone in his position would say something like that, knowing I had to challenge it and feeling determined to change...
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Do the limits of my language, limit my world?
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Power is an abstract concept and many conversations start tentatively so I was particularly struck by the conversation we had with the students in a secondary school in Bristol recently. The students were able, and willing to explore a complex...
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What we have learnt about ‘power’ so far
Read morePower emerged as a theme through Lankelly Chase’s and our partner’s work on the systemic causes of multiple disadvantage. From place-based change to social innovation, our partners and colleagues kept telling us that sharing power and...
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Reshaping Research: Knowledge and the Conditions of Possibility
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I once wrote a politics paper arguing that in striving for replicability, predictability, and proof in the quest for more scientific research we ultimately miss the point: we miss the messiness and complexity of society by reducing rich and...
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Writing Deprivation in the Body: Epigenetics Friend or Foe?
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Sue White and David Wastell sketch out the risks if we don't question 'what is this knowledge for and what does it do to us?' in relation to the new science of epigenetics. Arguably a question we should be asking ourselves about all kinds of...
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Profiling Severe and Multiple Disadvantage in Scotland
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Our 2015 report Hard Edges was an important step for us, clearly making the case that problems don’t exist in isolation. In partnership with the Robertson Trust and working again with the team at Heriot-Watt University, we have commissioned a...