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Creative (re)presentation

‘Creative (re)presentation - Telling stories through a participatory and voice-led approach and the making of the film Healing Pitch' - is a free online session focused on including people's authentic experiences in creative ways that empowers people without exposing them to harm. If you are…
Published 11 Mar 2026 in Events

HTML - a tool for creativity

Recently I had the opportunity to try Paperlater a new service from the smart people at Newspaper Club.  It's a service that enables you to take web pages you’ve been meaning to read and collect them…
Published 29 Sep 2014 in Features

Are you thinking with your hands?

“We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” (Bronowski, 1973) We’…
Published 22 Sep 2014 in Features
Relationships Matter

Relationships Matter

Relationships MatterIriss's Innovation and Improvement Team is leading an exciting new project entitled, Relationships Matter, to develop ideas that support young people who are leaving care to…
Published 22 Sep 2014 in News

A different way of doing things

The first thing I learnt having a significant life long impairment is that to succeed in the world as a credible disability consultant and activist is that I had to do things differently to make the…
Published 16 Sep 2014 in Features

Time to get rid of the forms

Good assessment of someone's care and support needs to start from a blank sheet of paper. This is a notion that has the power to strike terror into hearts of seasoned professionals - or does it?…
Published 9 Sep 2014 in Features

The power of asking

Through the very act of asking people, I’d connected with them, and when you connect with them, people want to help you. This quote comes from a brilliant TED talk by the musician Amanda Palmer…
Published 5 Sep 2014 in Features

Enterprise Social Networks

The term 'Enterprise Social Network' is getting bandied about quite a lot of late. It sounds a bit techie, but it's really not. Enterprise Social Network (ESN) is a term that emcompasses social…
Published 5 Sep 2014 in Features

Talking with images

I have boards on Pinterest full of quotes and images that I have collected because I am instinctively drawn to them. They talk to me, the quotes in an obvious way, the images in a not so obvious way…
Published 2 Sep 2014 in Features

Reflections on the Personal Learning Networks Challenge

Following the release of the Personal Learning Networks Building your Personal Network animation - which depicts Kristina's (a fictional character's) experience of using social media - we invited…
Published 2 Sep 2014 in News

Special issue of the Journal of Integrated Care

The recently published special issue of the Journal of Integrated Care features articles from practitioners involved in the collaborative PROP - Practitioner-research: Older people project.…
Published 1 Sep 2014 in News

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