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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...
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Perspectives on Knowledge
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Introducing a week of perspectives on knowledge We published the most recent version of our approach to change recently, and last week, our CEO, Julian Corner blogged about what this means to us in our work. Knowledge and evidence are...
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Get on with it! Co-production and Leadership
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Three local partners in York (Together for Mental Wellbeing - who deliver the York Pathways project - Changing Lives and HealthWatch York) have been working together to try to catalyse a system-wide Multiple Complex Needs network to address the...
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Systemic working in Place: How we got here
Read moreIn our blogs and learning, you will hear a lot about the system behaviours. Our insights will reflect on whether these are the best ones for now, if some are more important than others and what they tell us about working in place using a systemic...
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Lankelly Chase’s approach to working with complexity
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What does effectiveness look like when working in situations of complexity? How do we understand what to do or where to start? How do we attribute results to our actions? These questions go to the heart of our feelings of competence and...
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Addressing Adversity in Birmingham
Read moreWe 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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Lankelly Chase, 360giving and foundation transparency
Read moreThis week Lankelly Chase has joined the growing group of charitable foundations who have made our spending data more open, accessible and understandable through the 360giving platform. You can take a spin here. This data has always been in the...
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Multiple disadvantage: understanding the whole family
Read moreLast week the Revolving Doors Research Network published the latest in its series of literature reviews on severe and multiple disadvantage, this time focusing on Understanding the Whole Family. This will be a useful conversation starter to...