Understanding Systems Infrastructure
Following on from our Behaving like a System? report last year, Anna Randle sets out the focus of the next stage of our research on ‘system infrastructure’. Last year Collaborate worked with Lankelly...
View ArticleHelping Europe’s Social Funders to Collaborate
European Foundation Centre’s Annual Conference – Amsterdam, May 2016 Mapping your place in the “funding ecology” – a first step towards creating change? In examining the potential for greater...
View ArticleSystems Change in Public Services
This month sees the launch of a new series of Discussion Papers by Collaborate, in which we share our thinking as it develops through our practice and invite comments and discussion. In the first...
View ArticlePlace-Based Routes out of the Brexit Crisis
We are all struggling to process the last few days and make sense of the implications. The focus over the coming weeks will be on party politics, but this is a moment of dislocation for those of us...
View ArticleCollective ambition: a responsible next–step for funders?
Funders and commissioners of social initiatives are in a unique position of privilege and responsibility. At times of seismic political and social change these pressures only increase and stimulate...
View ArticleInsights on infrastructure for place-based system change
Last June we published this blog setting out the aims of our research project on system infrastructure, funded by Lankelly Chase. Building on our work exploring the vision and behaviours for system...
View ArticleThe Collaborative University: connecting people, place and policy
The Collaborative University: connecting people, place and policy Key tipping points in history almost always serve to pick at old scabs and reawaken fresh wounds. It would be fair to cite Brexit as...
View ArticleMoving from the margins: the challenges of building integrated local services...
Moving from the margins is a discussion paper produced by Collaborate and Turning Point that presents seven key insights for building integrated public services. The overriding message for Moving from...
View ArticleAwkward bedfellows and slippery concepts a.k.a. How to lead social change
Our Director Dr Henry Kippin writes for the Clore Social Leadership programme on the challenges of leading social change. Leadership is a slippery concept. A verb, not a noun. A spirit, not a skillset....
View ArticlePlace is the space
Our director Dr Henry Kippin writes for the MJ on place based leadership in a digital world. The late, great Nigerian author Chinua Achebe once defined art as the constant effort to create for...
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