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Cathy Sharp. Action Researcher. Honorary Professor School of Health Robert Gordon University. Appreciative action research. Facilitation. Learning by Doing. Future-focused. Based Edinburgh. www.research-for-real.co.uk
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this new agency will be created exactly 20 years after the Scottish Government, under Salmond, axed Communities Scotland, an agency that did EXACTLY THIS
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Reflections on AI: what do people truly care about?
Research 'as if people were human' and other reflections on inquiring appreciatively. #Evaluation #ActionResearch #AppreciativeInquiry open.substack.com/pub/research...
Reflections on AI: what do people truly care about?
Research 'as if people were human' and other reflections on inquiring appreciatively. #Evaluation #ActionResearch #AppreciativeInquiry open.substack.com/pub/research...
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“What it about ‘not knowing’ that the artist knows, that would be useful to percolate into the broader world?” #Curiosity
Links to some great radio & #CaringConversations #7Cs an #appreciative, #relational and #systemic approach. #actionresearch, #facilitation, #evaluation #systemsthinking
#Stories #ActionResearch
Whoever we are working with, efforts to amplify ‘voice’ are insufficient. What happens to the passion and motivation amongst practitioners when they return to their daily routines? Practitioners need connection and a sense of hope too. open.substack.com/pub/research...
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@MHLscotland are approaching a milestone 20th birthday next year as part of the UK wide social movement. Let us know your stories and reflections - and ideas for celebrations. More here www.linkedin.com/posts/cathy-...
“Words create worlds. We believe that the language we use creates our realities, so we seek to pay attention to how our language might position people and the inter-play between language, power and emotion.” On language and being too busy for theory. open.substack.com/pub/research...
Good to see measuring what matters featuring here. It’s no mean feat! wm2u.co.uk/resource/rep...
Who’s marking our homework? #evaluation #actionresearch
It’s never neutral to go about asking questions. Inquiry itself is a form of intervening. Perhaps unsettling? As ‘participants, not spectators’, let's shape that participation as #learning researchforreal.substack.com/p/whos-marki...
I get loads of these too. Quite bizarre. What’s their business model? I have no idea!
Who’s marking our homework? #evaluation #actionresearch
It’s never neutral to go about asking questions. Inquiry itself is a form of intervening. Perhaps unsettling? As ‘participants, not spectators’, let's shape that participation as #learning researchforreal.substack.com/p/whos-marki...
"We have been taught to be standing on the outside looking in....It is one thing to critique established ways of doing #evaluation, and quite another to turn entrenched ideas and dissatisfaction into something else...." #actionresearch researchforreal.substack.com/p/be-a-parti...
Grow As We Go #actionresearch #appreciativeinquiry #relationalpractice #evaluation #stories #learning #socialaction open.substack.com/pub/research...
Grow As We Go #actionresearch #appreciativeinquiry #relationalpractice #evaluation #stories #learning #socialaction open.substack.com/pub/research...
Do With: A Call To Action | The King's Fund
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Report 4: #MeasuresthatMatter focuses on #Evaluation #ActionResearch A #SystemChange methodology includes thinking differently about defining & measuring success, challenging systemic taken-for-granted mindsets & reporting practices #GrowAsWeGo Reports here: research-for-real.co.uk/projects-and...
Becoming Allies in Change, #Digest of key lessons so far. 4 accompanying reports address the 'how' of #SystemChange #Learning #EarlyHelp #Prevention #ActionResearch #CommunityLed @fbain.bsky.social
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*Online EVENT invitation* Join VHS March 26th at 10.30 am to explore Missingness in healthcare and the impact on Health Inequalities. Our guest speaker Andrea Williamson, Professor of General Practice and Inclusion Health @uofglasgow.bsky.social book at tinyurl.com/2dj5jf9n
Giving this an extra wee push to get the word out.
Inverness Eden Court theatre- eden-court.co.uk/event/when-f...
Glasgow Celtic Connections Festival - www.celticconnections.com/event/1/when...
Directed by Morag McKinnon and Jim Sutherland
Score composed by Jim Sutherland
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“It is slow work that transforms the consciousness & relationships of those involved. It ripples into, rather than wrecks, the old systems. It is slow, relational work that improves lives."
#ActionResearch For a Trumpian Time
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Very useful list-thanks