Research for Real

Worth 5 minutes of your time Or thereabouts.....

“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? Reflections on quality

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? Reflections on quality

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...

Be a participant, not a spectator Be a participant, not a spectator

"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 Occasional posts from Research for Real and others

Grow As We Go #actionresearch #appreciativeinquiry #relationalpractice #evaluation #stories #learning #socialaction open.substack.com/pub/research...

Grow As We Go Occasional posts from Research for Real and others

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 Do With is a network of people and organisations calling for a radical shift in the public sector from ‘doing to’ to ‘doing with’. Join the movement today.

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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Action Research For a Trumpian Time - AR + Action Research Plus action participation transformation after Trump election is possible with action research orientation to participative democratic work

“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