Delighted the 1st meeting of the Global PB Hub will be in Edinburgh during #PBConf19 week, bringing practitioners together from across the world for sharing learning, research & resource development for PB practitioners. Special shout out to Scotland’s own Evelyn O'Donnell 💪🌎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We're pleased to support #ChallengePoverty Week, starting with sharing materials that detail poverty trends and policy impacts in Scotland 1995-2018, created in partnership with Poverty & Inequality Commission & Scottish Parliament Information Centre policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/poverty-trends…

Reflecting and learning from our collective experiences with colleagues from England, Netherlands, Denmark and Poland. youtu.be/CNhrirfkWE4 via YouTube #CrowdUrbanism #cities #SmartCities Citizen Participation - [email protected] What Works Scotland School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh

Prof Nick Watson from ⁦What Works Scotland⁩ discusses the importance of collaborative action for developing evidence-based policy #GlasgowCrucible

Please check out this Families Outside In Brief where I try and distill my PhD into 4 pages! Key Finding 1 - Young people's experiences of a family member's imprisonment are different to children's more generally. What can we do to make sure that they feel heard and supported?

Third Sector Research Forum newsletter, with a write up of the recent Collaborating for Impact event. I spoke on the panel talking about impact from the perspective of an academic... talk about imposter syndrome! Urban Studies & Social Policy What Works Scotland

This afternoon we’re discussing brilliant doctoral research projects from What Works Scotland What Works Scotland Starting with Jane Cullingworth ‘Third sector interfaces in Scotland: Manufacturing civil society’ -fascinating research into the complex relationship between state and third sector

Next up is Sarah Ward Sarah Ward presenting at What Works Scotland on Assets Based Community Development. I was lucky to examine Sarah’s thesis and learnt lots about ABCD at the frontline and the challenges of tackling inequalities and mobilising for social change

Now Kirsty Deacon presents key findings from her thesis about ‘young people’s experiences of having a family member in prison’ - insights into often forgotten perspectives that trouble simplistic narratives about prison/punishment/justice What Works Scotland

And finally the groundbreaking work by @Tamara_Mulherin who’s conducted an ethnography of inter-organising in the context of Health and Social Care Integration in Scotland - understanding collaborative practices through materiality and the micro politics of interaction What Works Scotland

The 4 What Works Scotland PhD projects presented Jane Cullingworth Sarah Ward Kirsty Deacon @Tamara_Mulherin are exemplars of the value of #SocialSciences doctoral research: empirically deep, theoretically informed, destabilising what we think we understand. See What Works Scotland website for more info.

long time coming! I'm delighted to host this launch at Edinburgh Futures Institute with Policy Scotland A handbook that takes a 4-stage approach to designing dialogic & deliberative public engagement.Masterful resource by Wendy Faulkner & @ClaireBynner What Works Scotland Everyone welcome! #demopart #delibwave

Big congrats to Jane - one of the What Works Scotland PhDs!

Great to hear this! Join Wendy Faulkner, @ClaireBynner & Citizen Participation - [email protected] for the launch of the Public Engagement Handbook this Friday (17 July), 10am (UK time), hosted by Edinburgh Futures Institute eventbrite.co.uk/e/planning-pub…

NEW! What Works Scotland research & ideas on the community economy - available via Policy Scotland

Stimulating blog: the role of community social enterprise if we are to build back better and fairer Citizen Participation - [email protected] What Works Scotland #Scotland #Equality #COVID19 #ClimateChange

New joint article with @HAYLESBEN is out! We’ve been working for a few years using empirical data and reflections What Works Scotland. We introduce the concept of the Buffer Zone to synthesise the complexities of conducting contemporary #collaborative #research. Thank you so much @QRJCardiff

Ten years ago on #OTD the Christie Commission report into the future delivery of public services in Scotland was published gov.scot/publications/c… There's sure to be lots of discussion over the next few months about the impact of Christie and what's changed since then 1/