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Discovering Desistance 4Thoughts TV TONIGHT!
hi, Charlie Ryder (who was at the London seminar last week) is going to be on a programme called 4thoughts.tv which is on just after Channel 4 News at 7pm TODAY! It is a two minute talk with puppets talking about forgiveness. It’ll be on at about 7...
16 May 2012
Discovering Desistance Something for those who didn’t get to the workshops…
I know there are lots of people out there who wanted to get to the workshops but didn’t manage. As Steve said in his previous posts, we’ll get some material from the discussions up here soon, and of course the film will follow in due course....
14 May 2012
SDS Evidence Explorers Guest blogger
From Pippa Coutts, the Scottish Union of Supported Employment (SUSE) SUSE is working on a capacity building project, funded by a grant awarded by The Scottish Government as part of their programme: “Implementing the National Strategy: Building the...
14 May 2012
Discovering Desistance Reflections on London Seminar
hi, Knowing my capabilities with technology (“v. poor”), thi smight not work, but given that we’ve no formal discussion space it occurred to me that if people who attended the London seminars wished to make comments on the film or the...
14 May 2012
Discovering Desistance Space for Reflections on Sheffield Seminar
hi, Knowing my capabilities with technology (“v. poor”), thi smight not work, but given that we’ve no formal discussion space it occurred to me that if people who attended the Sheffield seminars wished to make comments on the film or...
14 May 2012
SDS Evidence Explorers Mind the gaps
They came thick and fast from all sides, through networks, a membership survey, targeted consultation with key stakeholders, random e-mails, help-line phone calls, conference feed-back and, of course (two excellent) blog posts. Many thanks to all of you...
07 May 2012
Discovering Desistance Change or Control? Why risk is risky
If I sort out the technology, you should find here… McNeill CLCJ 040512  (PDF) McNeill CLCJ 040512_ANR (AUDIO) …or on the Useful Resources page, the audio recording and powerpoint from a short talk I gave this morning at event organised by...
04 May 2012
Just do it! BYOD – coming your way?
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) describes the recent trend of employees bringing personally-owned mobile devices to their place of work, and using those devices to access privileged company resources such as email, file servers, and databases (http://en....
04 May 2012
Alison's Musings Time Out
Together with three colleagues from IRISS I spent part of last week at the Third International Workshop on Evidence-informed Practice.  The first was held in 2008 at Dartington, the initiative of RiP and RiPfA, while the second was organised by PART (...
04 May 2012
Asset Mapping Social Assets in Action: Project Launch
We are launching the Social Assets in Action project on 24th May in Kirkintilloch Baptist Church (There will be a morning session and an afternoon session). The purpose of this event is to give an overview of the process of the project, explain how you...
03 May 2012