by Guest | 24 Mar 2021 | Active Neighbours, Communities & Volunteering
“I saw that there was an NHS Responder app. I saw that, and […] I just wanted to get involved and kind of help out and do what I could – because I saw the NHS and all the lengths that everyone was going to […] And I saw quite a few community efforts on Facebook and I thought it was something I could do to help out with.”
by Dr Nick Barnes | 28 Apr 2020 | Covid and Relationships, Guest Blogs
Dr. Nick Barnes Nick works as a Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as a Cognitive Analytic Therapist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. In this blog, Nick discusses the fundamental role that relationships will play in...
by Dr Nick Barnes | 28 Apr 2020 | Guest Blogs
Dr Nick Barnes In this extraordinary contribution to the Joining the Dots series Dr Nick Barnes looks ahead to a post-Covid future, arguing that to build a better society, we must address inequality and redress power structures. Nick works as a...
by Nick Sinclair and David Robinson | 9 Oct 2020 | Covid and Relationships, Economy & Politics, Our thinking
In brief In this blog, Nick Sinclair and David Robinson explore the concept of a ‘social covenant’ discussed in Danny Kruger’s recent report, ‘Levelling Up Our Communities’, arguing it must be formed around values, trust, morality and...
by Nick Stanhope | 24 Jul 2019 | Guest Blogs
In brief In this Joining the Dots blog, Shift’s CEO (and dad to a 3 year old) Nick Stanhope explores ways in which digital technologies can help – rather than hinder – us putting relationships at the heart of what we do, bringing warmth to unnecessarily...
by Nick Andrews | 11 Sep 2019 | Guest Blogs
In brief In this piece for Joining the Dots Nick Andrews discusses the true nature of co production and how good support is founded in, and reflects back, the kind of relationships that Martin Buber called “I– thou” not “I- it”. Nick Andrews Research and Practice...
by David Robinson | 22 Apr 2020 | Covid and Relationships
In this Observatory Sighting, we explore how trust is being recalibrated and the impact this is having on relationships both now and in the future Over the last couple of weeks we have reported on what we see on the surface: Thousands of new community groups, new...
by David Robinson | 2 Aug 2019 | Economy & Politics, Our thinking
In brief In this blog, David Robinson, who leads the Relationships Project, challenges the UK’s new Prime Minister to take a relationship-centred approach to government, and makes some suggestions for how to go about it. This blog also appears on A Better...
by David Robinson | 17 Apr 2020 | Covid and Relationships
In this Observatory Sighting, we reflect on the link between relational poverty and other forms of inequality during Covid 19 On 28/04 at 4pm BST, we’ll be hosting our second Looking to the Future session via Zoom where we will be discussing this topic. If you’d like...
by Immy Robinson | 30 Apr 2020 | Convenings, Covid and Relationships
In our fourth Observatory Sighting, we discuss the shift from competition to collaboration born from the necessity of a rapid, joined up response to the disruption wraught by Covid-19. Relationships between organisations are changing as much as relationships between...
