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 | Guest Blogs, Observatory Thinking
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 | Featured About, 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, Observatory Thinking, 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...
