Power, accountability, and leadership in place-based change
Three guest speakers joined us at the last place-based community of practice to discuss their experiences of participatory decision-making in Swansea and Barking & Dagenham.
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When learning means bringing everyone (back) to the table
Research Consultant Kathleen Bailey shares their reflections on the power of human interaction following a rare in-person learning workshop with the Spirit of 2012 staff team.
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The Ghosts of Place in the Present
In this blog, John Hitchin shares a vision for making the government’s intangible levelling up agenda a reality, using place-based approaches that bring together government and philanthropic investment with learning, relationships, and ownership. Ill-defined spectres haunt the land. Some are like things we used to know, but appear to have new and blurry edges. Some
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A wishlist for the future of place-based change
Renaisi’s Head of Place & Systemic Change Beth Stout, shares her thoughts and hopes for the future of place-based work.
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Equity in research and evaluation design and execution
Louisa Thomson, Head of Consultancy shares how the team has worked to make our evaluation and research practices more equitable and inclusive. Like many in the research and evaluation industry, we know that power and privilege shapes and can dictate our work – from who commissions a piece of research, who is invited to participate
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