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Research Practice Partnerships in social care

Research Practice Partnerships in social care: Research production or capacity building? This session will explore work carried out within the Creating Care Partnerships study. The purpose of this NIHR funded study was to develop, implement and evaluate an approach called Research Practice…
Published 9 Feb 2026 in Events

Failing better

I’ve been talking a lot about failure recently. We know that risk and failure are central components of innovation. Indeed, it’s been claimed that “success can breed failure by hindering learning at…
Published 7 Apr 2015 in Features

Wiggio

Communities of practice or enterprise social networks as they're also known are great for sharing learning, developing new connections and collaborating. The Knowledge Hub, Yammer and Socialcast are…
Published 7 Apr 2015 in Features

The View from Here: Analysis

Iriss wants to better understand practitioners' experiences of delivering care and support in Scotland and part of The View from Here project will be to undertake a survey in partnership with the…
Published 3 Apr 2015 in News

UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum 2015

The 2nd Annual UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum is being held on 13th-14th April 2015 at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. It will provide a space for knowledge producers, knowledge…
Published 23 Mar 2015 in News

Some stories and some gifts

It is some time since I blogged here – apologies to anyone who missed me and apologies, also, to anyone who would have been happy for me to stay away! This time around is all about stories and gifts…
Published 23 Mar 2015 in Features

School of Life

I recently attend two courses at the School of Life. One was called ‘How to communicate better at work’ and the other ‘How to have better conversations’. Both classes were pretty theoretical (as the…
Published 10 Mar 2015 in Features

The Art of the Possible

Pilotlight is a partner in an event - Capacity Building: The Art of the Possible - organised by Providers and Personalisation to share learning around self-directed support. In 2012, the Scottish…
Published 9 Mar 2015 in News

Creative consultations

I work for LGBT Health and Wellbeing, supporting services working with older people to become more inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. This is a valuable opportunity to…
Published 2 Mar 2015 in Features

Taking the time to tinker

I come from a family of tinkerers. My granddad was always in his shed hacking away at something or in the garage mucking about with his Morris Minor. He was a postman, not a carpenter or an engineer…
Published 23 Feb 2015 in Features

Encouraging storytelling part 3

Turning points This exercise comes with a health warning - it can unearth unwanted emotions. Participants need to be encouraged to look after themselves and only deal with parts of their lives that…
Published 17 Feb 2015 in Features

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