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Reshaping Research: Knowledge and the Conditions of Possibility
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?
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
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...
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Addressing Adversity in Birmingham
We were so proud to share our work with schools, families and young people in Birmingham in Addressing Adversity: Young Minds' important work on understanding and responding to adverse childhood experiences. The launch of this report feels...
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Sharing Insights from the Frontline- Systems Changers Twitter Takeovers
We often hear the voices of Chief Execs and CEOs and we’re beginning to hear the voices of people with lived experience more and more but rarely do we hear from the frontline workers who connect them. That’s why we launched the Systems...
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Frustration and Space
Over the past year the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and partners, funded by Lankelly Chase, have been undertaking action research to understand how people who have experienced severe and multiple disadvantage and decision makers...
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Working towards systems change through coproduction – Our Experience of Elephants
Over the past year the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and partners, funded by Lankelly Chase, have been undertaking action research to understand how people who have experienced severe and multiple disadvantage and decision makers...
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View from a conservatory
Over the past year the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and partners, funded by Lankelly Chase, have been undertaking action research to understand how people who have experienced severe and multiple disadvantage and decision makers...
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Elephants in the box: How can we work together to tackle severe and multiple disadvantage across Greater Manchester
Over the past year the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and partners, funded by Lankelly Chase, have been undertaking action research to understand how people who have experienced severe and multiple disadvantage and decision makers...
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‘I’m no criminal’ – prostitution and criminal records
Last week nia, a women’s support organisation, published I’m no criminal, which makes a powerful case that the continued existence and disclosure of prostitution-related criminal records is ‘discriminatory, arbitrary, irrational and...