A week in the life of a researcher
Kandy Sisya is a project officer in the consultancy team. Find out what it’s like to work at Renaisi as she shares her experiences over the course of a busy week of consulting for charities and funders.
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#13 week notes – week beginning 3rd February
A much needed quieter week. Place-based systems change I am working on a project about how to fund and support place-based systems change, and this week I spoke with a couple of organisations that are actually doing it. During the conversations, I was struck by how people constantly evolve their understanding of the place they
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What do people mean when they talk about place based change?
In this post, John explains how we group the work we do on place into five categories that help us understand different attitudes to change in society.
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#12 week notes – week Beginning 27th January
These are late again. Once you break a habit of when you do something, it’s hard to get it back … Democracy There were a lot of local democracy discussions going on in Manchester this week, with a couple of conferences and gatherings. It gave me the opportunity to present some of the early ideas
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#11 week notes – week beginning 20th January
A late one this week (last week?), as my week ran through until Saturday. Coventry I was in Coventry twice this week with Grapevine, at both ‘ends’ of a project about social action. The first session was in the council offices, with an impressive range of senior staff, talking about how place-based social action in
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