Ian Robson

Not used my X account for a LONG time, but today I deleted it. I miss the Twitter friends, and things have not taken off as well here, but let’s see. If you like creative, participatory research, applied health, education and social care topics and philosophy you can use, let’s follow each other.

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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Ian Robson | Substack Academic, artist, adoptive parent interested in the intersection of public services, co-creative methods, tech and inclusion. Lives in Northumberland, NE England.

Hey there and Happy New Year! I’m trying to connect to more writers and creatives in the research-education-community practice space. To that end, I’ve made a stumbling start on #Substack - if that’s your stuff, please follow me and I’ll say hi! 👉🏽 substack.com/@ianrobsons?... #writing #creative

If you have a quick 10 minutes before the end of the year we would really appreciate you using it to fill in our playful survey! Wearing Christmassy attire and singing throughout is advised 😀🎄

Run my studio experiments alongside my academic work. It’s good to put myself in a failure-embracing and liminal space as I talk about that all the time at work!

Ian Robson wearing what can only be described as a ridiculous painted cardboard tower on his head.

Proud to say that all the @re--play.bsky.social co-investigators dutily wore their hats to our monthly catch up. Caught up on all we are finding out, with our partners, students and Fellows about activity, perceptions, and experiments in playful learning in Higher Education. Playfully serious 😜

That would be great. I’m helping the team with methodological input. We’re using Experience Based Co-Design model. I hope you’re good also. I’m ridiculously busy so apologies for no contact yet!

Social Care Campaign: Pathfinders Blog Post - Pathfinders Neuromuscular Alliance The Social Care Campaign. Why now? To illustrate why we have launched our social care campaign, we asked various members of our community to share their experiences of social care. First, Sam, our Res...

Glad to be part of supporting @pathfindersnma.bsky.social on experienced based co-design #ebcd > the topic of better #socialcare for adults w/ #neuromuscular conditions. A few of us from @northumbriauni.bsky.social led by Dr. George Peat supporting. www.pathfindersalliance.org.uk/social-care-...

If you are into #deleuze and hadn’t seen it yet, this 2025 English translation of his seminars on painting now available from Minnesota Press. Contains much expanded discussions you’ll see in summary in his texts (e.g., on F Bacon) #onpainting

Right #highereducation colleagues and students! 🤩 If you are interested in #playfullearning come connect to RE:PLAY. It’s a wildly collaborative doing-and-learning #ESRC funded UK study on playful learning in HE. research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/
@re--play.bsky.social

Session w/ students on the MA in Childhood &Early Years Studies on feminisms & childhoods. 👉🏽theory-action as troubling, materiality & embodiment, & the challenge to thinking about positionality, policy & practice as never neutral. www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-nor... @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Debate and action needed. Will be reading.

Joining colleagues from the NIHR Innovation Observatory and Edinburgh University at today’s Horizon Scanning and Innovations for Health in Coastal Communities held at Edinburgh Futures Institute. We’re looking at research innovation capacity and capabilities, a subject I am passionate about! 👁️👂🏼🌊

Public Involvement and Community Engagement in Applied Health and Social Care Research The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Chapters provide insight into critical concerns and innovative practices on the process of developing and delivering Public Involvement and Community Engagement in a range of research settings.

Pleased to have a chapter on The Theory and Practice of creative Public Involvement and Community Engagement (PICE) in PICE in Applied Health and Social Care Research. Great Open Access resource, Edited by William McGovern, Alderson, Bareham & Lhussier. bookstore.emerald.com/public-invol...

Great to meet up with @drhelenkara.bsky.social on her visit to Newcastle to talk about writing, sci-fi, conferences, pizza and all the things. Lovely to see you, Helen.

If we took out far right billionaires out of social engineering hatred, imagine how much would change?? Must funding legal fees for racists, billionaires funding (non) Christian nationalism gatherings in Soho. Get in the sea.

Ok, officially reached “too much” on the jobs, planning, communication. #overstimulated

State of Play: A history of Playful Learning in 10 Video Games State of Play: A history of Playful Learning in 10 Video Games

Going to my mate @nicwhitton.bsky.social public lecture this week and SO excited. Come along if in Newcastle Upon Tyne! 👉 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Got a #teaching session coming up that gives me a chance to do something new with @northumbriauni.bsky.social Professional Doctorate students (www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-nor...). #Art installation and textual propositions to encounter Deleuze’s #concepts. These cards are some examples.

A person’s hands arranging piles of post-it notes.

I often find “going away” to workshops and conferences hard work socially, but the recent #ESRC funded RE:PLAY workshop for learning designers was great. Investigating #playfullearning in Higher Education. In this case, developing a design process and resources for educators.

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument "We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

Congratulations North East Bylines on your 5,000th article! 👏😮

“In Newcastle there was a complete reversal with over 3500 anti-right-wing demonstrators to the UKIP-Advance UK gathering of between 150 and 200.”

And make sure you’re supporting the Bylines Network…

A Logo for the RE:PLAY project with images of a toy giraffe and two tumbling dice.

Setting off later in the UK’s first Playful Learning in Higher Education study. @nicwhitton.bsky.social leading wonderfully as Principal. We will be co-designing the Playful Learning design process and resources for designers with colleagues from across the country. Woop! 🙌

A monitor showing a presentation slide titled “Innovative and Inclusive Methods in Sociology of Health and Medicine (Funded by the British Sociological Society)”.

What a great time participating/ speaking at this today. Organised by Petra Makela and colleagues.

Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds

Sutton Trust article on social class and “top jobs”. As the Guardian article says, class often left out of EDI conversations. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Basic income is bold but necessary”

Dr @ianrobsons.bsky.social, a community development worker with 30+ years in working-class communities shares how #BasicIncome could transform people's lives in Blyth, Northumberland.

📖 Basic Income OUT NOW: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/basic-...

An edited image of a Roman marble statue with the phrase “Become Imperceptible” fragmented across it. The reference is to a concept in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari in their text, A Thousand Plateaus.

#deleuzeandguattari #becomeimperceptible

In response to today's #SpendingReview, our CEO
@keithareed.bsky.social has welcomed commitment to expanding the Family Hubs programme, but is disappointed by the lack of clarity around funding for #StartForLife services, particularly during #IMHAW2025
Full statement 👉http://bit.ly/4kCwYDN

🔥 Over a quarter of a million people have now signed this petition.

Sign and share everywhere.

You remain the best virtual friend I wish I COULD meet 😂

Urgh. No posts for forever as I just lost the will. Real connection, real creation, materials, walking. Anyway, no hate for Bl*esky, just need less noise. Love to you all in the meantime.