Making big changes

Yesterday I published a post for the Good Practice Exchange blog to share that I’m moving to Devon to work for Research in…

On my way to work last week I listened to NPR’s TED Radio Hour on Rethinking School. Sal Khan’s discussion on the Khan Academy was fascinating. He’s “flipped the classroom” so that students can watch the lectures at home on YouTube and they can undertake the…

At our Staff Trust seminar, Professor Searle used the definition of trust as being “a willingness to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the positive expectations that the other will act beneficially or at least not inflict harm…

As I mentioned in my blogpost on online networks, my current job is my first post in eight years that…

I’m a week into working for Research in Practice and Research in Practice for Adults, and it’s been awesome so far. I’ve got enough material for a few posts, but one will do for the time being! Here are my initial reflections after a week here.

Social media helps you to avoid monotonous work, at least temporarily. I wrote a post for the Good Practice Exchange at the Wales Audit Office last week about how I was changing the way that I work to be more efficient. I’ve been…

Inspired by conversations with Kelly Doonan and the GovCamp Cymru Books Channel on Slack, I’ve recently finished reading John Seddon’s “The Whitehall Effect”. The book is billed as being “an uncompromising account of the way Whitehall…

A change in personal circumstances has recently meant that I’ve been working more from home. Not my home in Cardiff, but my partner’s home in Exeter. Kelly is an incredible writer, so instead of outlining how this started, I’ll signpost you to her fantastic…

Since starting my working life in the voluntary sector, it’s been clear to me that there’s no shortage of people with public service values providing services. When I facilitated cross-sector networks at Participation Cymru…