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How To Design And Plan Public Engagement Processes: A Handbook Building the Community Economy in Scotland: Frameworks to support learning and action Reflections on the What Works Scotland initiative Strengthening Community Councils: Exploring how they can contribute to democratic renewal in Scotland Participation and representation: Strengthening the third sector voice in local governance At the frontier of collaborative and participatory governance: Eight key discussions to support putting Christie into practice – reflective learning with practitioners from Aberdeenshire CPP Collaborative Action Research and public services – insights into methods, findings and implications for public service reform Exploring perceived opportunities and challenges of Participation Requests in Scotland Policy briefing – Mainstreaming participatory budgeting: What works in building foundations for a more participatory democracy? Public Service Leadership: What Works? Community Planning after the Community Empowerment Act: The Second Survey of Community Planning Officials in Scotland Facilitation training – new skills to facilitate collaboration Policy briefing – Evaluability Assessment: A collaborative approach to planning evaluations Universal basic income – A scoping review of evidence on impacts and study characteristics An outcome-focused evaluation of High Life: Highland’s Falls Prevention Programme Submission to Locality’s Inquiry: Keeping It Local Call for Evidence Making data meaningful: Evidence use in a community planning partnership in Scotland Policy briefing: Public service leadership: What works? Policy briefing: Public service leadership: Rethinking leadership for collaborative settings Action Research in Policy Analysis: ‘Sanction and sanctuary’ in Scottish collaborative governance Policy briefing: Exploring the roles of community anchor organisations in public service reform and social change Hope for Democracy: Participatory Budgeting in Scotland The Operation Modulus Approach: further lessons for public service reform Educational needs and experiences of refugee children in Scotland Resettlement of Syrian Refugees in West Dunbartonshire Transforming communities? Exploring the roles of community anchor organisations in public service reform, local democracy, community resilience and social change Community Planning Officials Survey: Understanding the everyday work of local participatory governance in Scotland Inquiring into Multi-layered, Preventative Partnership Building Connections: Co-locating advice services in general practices and job centres Insights from ‘Your Community’ – a place-based approach to public service reform ‘Hard to reach’ or ‘easy to ignore’? Promoting equality in community engagement – Evidence review Urban neighbourhoods: Five ways to make a difference Response to Scottish Government socio-economic duty consultation Response to Citizenship and Civic Engagement Committee consultation What Do Citizens Want? Tackling Child Poverty: Actions to Prevent and Mitigate Child Poverty at the Local Level Evaluation of Police and Fire Reform Economic Regeneration in Scotland: Past Lessons, Current Practice, Future Challenges What Works in Public Service Leadership: Exploring the Potential Pioneering Collaborative Leadership: A Facilitated Approach for Learning in Action Outcomes-based Approaches to Public Service Reform: Event Report Actions to prevent and mitigate child poverty in South Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership Public service reform and participatory budgeting: How can Scotland learn from international evidence? Local solutions to local problems: innovation in public participation Glasgow’s Participatory Budgeting Evaluation Toolkit Fife Collaborative Action Research – Second Home Retreat: Critical reflections and lessons on implementation Fife Collaborative Action Research Programme: An overview of the process Reflections and Learning from the Fife Collaborative Action Research Programme 2015-2017 Collaborative Action Research Report: Fife Partnership Innovation Team exploring the Family Fun Model Collaborative Inquiry Exploring Data and Knowledge-sharing Practices in Responses to Welfare Sanctions Collaborative action research report: Working in partnership to support students with additional needs Thriving Places case studies Outcomes Based Approaches in Public Service Reform Evaluability Assessment of Thriving Places: a Report for Glasgow Community Planning Partnership Fun, Food, Folk: The Centrestage approach to dignified food provision How to Design Collaborative Action Research Exploring collaborative learning, research and action in public service reform: Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Change Fund Beyond Action Learning initiative Reflecting on what works in developing authentic relationships in complex settings Learning about community capacity-building from the Community Links Worker approach in Insch, Aberdeenshire (2013-16): a collaborative action research inquiry (cycle 1) What Works in Community Profiling? Initial reflections from the WWS project in West Dunbartonshire Review of First Generation Participatory Budgeting in Scotland National Standards for Community Engagement Third sector participation and representation in East Lothian Rationales for Place-based Approaches in Scotland “Challenge current practice and assumptions! Make waves!!” What Works Scotland Collaborative Learning Event Scoping Report from the Aberdeenshire CPP and What Works Scotland’s Collaborative Learning Day 8 December 2015 Creating effective partnerships to deliver public services Community-led Action Planning Day event report. West Dunbartonshire, October 2015 Collaborative Action Research Fife Home Retreat Report Collaborative Action Retreat Report – Summary of retreat held in June 2015 Perspectives on Improvement and Effectiveness: Key Definitions and Concepts Perspectives on Knowledge into Action in education and public service reform: A review of relevant literature and an outline framework for change The Cost of School Holidays Operation Modulus: putting Christie into practice in the Gorbals Practising Collaborative Leadership: Reflection and Learning from the Enabling Collaborative Leadership Pioneer Programme 29th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement – State of the Art Briefings Evidence to Action in public service delivery: an overview of What Works Scotland knowledge partners Reimagining Community Planning in Scotland: A Vision from the Third Sector Supporting Collaborative Action Research: Developing a more systematic approach Evaluability Assessment: a systematic approach to deciding whether and how to evaluate programmes and policies Timeline for development of Scottish Government’s ‘National Performance Framework’ and outcomes Timeline for development of Community Planning in Scotland Getting evidence into action to improve Scotland’s public services Synthetic controls: a new approach to evaluating interventions What can the capabilities approach add to policy analysis in high-income countries? Community Anchors Policy making: Does anyone care? The Political Economy of Local Tax Reform What Works and learning from failure The emerging Scottish model: avoiding everything becoming nothing Partnership working across UK public services Scaling-up Innovations The Cost of the Cuts: a social impact tool Community Planning – Maximising Potential Changing Lives, Delivering Success Report to Scottish Parliament Finance Committee Blog: In search of effective collaborative challenge for a more equitable society Blog: Tackling inequalities by supporting ‘enterprising’ communities Blog: Community-led activity: time to invest in expansion Blog: Extending the community sector inquiry through a cross-sector learning community? Blog: Tackling health inequalities means more than service reform and design Participatory budgeting in Scotland: an overview of strategic design choices and principles for effective delivery Blog: Community social enterprises: innovators in public service reform? Blog: Third sector leadership – the promise of collective accounts of leadership Blog: Changing alcohol culture – developing our LOIP priority and what we’ve learnt about partnership working Blog: Knowing How – Putting Research into Practice Blog: Mapping the frontiers of collaborative governance Blog: Continuing to learn from international experiences of participatory budgeting Blog: The future of joined-up working and integration in Scotland – Time to concentrate on collaborative practice? Blog: Reflections on the welfare inquiry experience – Building and enhancing partnership working Blog: Digging deep and getting dirty hands! Doing collaborative action research with public services Blog: Meeting change-makers – connecting research and the ‘real world’ Blog: Facilitative Leadership – Involving citizens and communities in local decision-making Blog: Asset-Based Community Development – Sustainable development is about discoverables; not deliverables Blog: How can place-based approaches be used in rural Scotland? Blog: Can asset-based community development help to address health inequalities? Blog: Positive conversations, meaningful change – learning from Animating Assets Blog: Getting evidence into action – how can we understand what we already know? Blog: Messy collaboration Blog: In an era of killer sound-bites how can researchers and policy makers close the gap between complexity and simplicity? Blog: Why Place? Blog: Making data meaningful in West Dunbartonshire Blog: Participation and representation in Scotland’s third sector interfaces – a new model? Blog: Time for change – a delegate’s response to Community-led Approaches to Reducing Poverty Blog: What is the future of ‘doing good’ in the UK? Blog: Systems thinking – Re-imagining public services to tackle inequality Blog: Scotland and international experiences of scaling-up participatory budgeting Blog: Community-led Approaches to Reducing Poverty Blog: “Challenge current practice and assumptions! Make waves!!” – Findings from a Collaborative Action Research learning event Blog: Co-production – I believe in Unicorns after all, they are Scotland’s National animal! Blog: What key Evidence to Action resources are available for public service reform? Blog: The 2016 Alliance Conference and the Politics of Possibility Blog: A backstage pass – Operation Modulus and the case study approach Blog: Health and Social Care Integration – seeking the ‘space’ and commitment to support complex local partnership-working Blog: Collaboration, Control and Choice in a Person Centred Scotland Blog: Understanding and utilising social security sanctions data at the local level Blog: Creating effective partnerships to deliver public services Blog: Getting Knowledge into Action in Fife Blog: People making a difference in communities … a participatory cross-sector conference Blog: Community Anchors and Opportunities for Locally-led Public Service Reform Blog: Decision Making – Does Anyone Care? Blog: Scotland Welcomes Refugees – How do strangers become citizens? Blog: Engaging with the Edges Blog: Taking A Distributed Perspective to Leading & Managing Blog: The National Standards for Community Engagement – Back to the Future Blog: Health and social care integration: Sharing learning across the North Sea Blog: Governing with the people Blog: Reforming services – the example of refugee support Blog: A democratic future for community planning? Blog: Think YES? How to deliver transformational change in relationships between staff, managers and local people Blog: Local Government Finance Blog: What Works Centre for Wellbeing – Call out for stakeholder engagement Blog: The economics of prevention: ways of seeing Blog: People make Partnerships Blog: Why and how ‘what works’ is important for Scotland Blog: I can’t believe it’s not better Blog: Co-production: Do we know what it is and what it achieves? Blog: Can we tackle poverty by changing how we talk about it? Blog: Closing the commissioning gap: Supporting community and social enterprise through participatory budgeting Blog: Asset Based Community Development: Focusing on what matters Blog: What’s the Matter with Asset-Based Community Development? Blog: Democratic evaluation for the 21st Century Blog: The Economics of Prevention and Difficult Decisions for Community Planning Partnerships in Scotland Blog: Looking back on Community Planning Partnerships – Policy reunion Blog: ‘What Works’ in Raising Educational Standards? Learning Lessons and Rising to the ‘Challenge’ Blog: Democratic Sector Day Blog: Better Place – Communities, Citizens and Consumers & New Approaches to Social Policy & Public Services Blog: Shifting public services to focus on prevention: Impediments & implications Blog: What might the Capabilities approach bring to public service reform in Scotland? Blog: ‘Fractals’, Community Planning and Placed-based Policy Geography in West Dunbartonshire Blog: Meet the WWS staff, Research Fellows Richard Brunner and Claire Bynner Blog: Review of The Whitehall Effect Blog: Beyond cynicism and complacency – Participatory budgeting in Scotland Blog: Creating an Evidence Bank for Public Service Reform Blog: What Works in Fife? Blog: Working with What Works Scotland Blog: What Works Scotland and the Housing Sector Blog: Giving communities their place Blog: Why Can’t We Trust the Word ‘Welfare’ in Policy Making?
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Past events The Scottish approach to public service reform: lessons from What Works Scotland – seminar Children and young people: using research and evidence to make change happen Effective leadership and networked governance: Public service and community leadership – What works and why? Research for Change – Beyond What Works Webinar: Transforming communities? Exploring the roles of community anchor organisations in public service reform – supporting, leading and challenging? Empowering People and Places: What Works? Webinar: Participatory budgeting and its potential for community empowerment and social justice Britain after Brexit: the political and economic choices ahead Research, collaboration and inspection: towards a research-informed system Evidence to Action: what works for public service reform Experiences of refugee resettlement in Scotland Peer learning opportunity between What Works Scotland and Jam and Justice Action Research Co-operative (Greater Manchester) The potential of community anchor organisations to engage with, lead and challenge the reform of public services in Scotland ‘Disinvestment’, or ‘freeing up’ resources for reinvestment? Report launch: Key findings from the Survey of Community Planning Officials in Scotland Taking a Deliberative Approach to Complexity: What can we learn from the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit? Why Attitudes to Poverty Matter: What the Evidence Says A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services Co-production and Public Service Reform Hard-to-reach or easy-to-ignore? A review of evidence about equality in community engagement launch Leadership, Collaboration and Public Service Reform – What Works? Poverty, schools and inequality: reducing the cost of the school day Naomi Eisenstadt lecture – Review of the Life Chances of Young People Preventing and mitigating child poverty People, Prejudice and Planning: Community-based responses to promoting equality and tackling hate Book launch – The People’s Verdict: Adding Informed Citizen Voices to Public Decision-Making What Works in Economic Regeneration? Outcomes-based Approaches in Public Service Reform Public service reform, scrutiny and inspection: Where to next? Prevention and Prediction: Can we predict the impacts of prevention to inform policy and practice? ‘Fun, Food, Folk’: The Centrestage approach to dignified food provision Community-led Approaches to Reducing Poverty: A Review of Evidence and Practice International Experiences in Participatory Budgeting: A Session with Giovanni Allegretti Locked Out, Locked In: Young People, Adulthood and Desistance from Crime Exploring evidence, tools and strategies to expand the scope of prevention in public services Designing Public Policy for Co-production: Theory, Practice and Change Setting Priorities in Health and Social Care Integration: Economic and Provider Perspectives Creating Effective Partnerships to Deliver Public Services seminar Getting Knowledge into Action in Fife Inclusion Scotland Roadshows: Have your say on what disability research should focus on Battle of Ideas: The Referendum One Year On – a healthcheck on democracy Policy-making: Does Anyone Care? People Making a Difference in Communities Conference What Works Scotland at Explorathon Innovation and Equity: Working Together for Educational Change Distributed Leadership: Theory, Principle and Practice What Works Wellbeing – Community Evidence Programme Workshop The Populist Signal: Why Politics and Democracy Need to Change NHS Scotland Local Intelligence Support Team: Autumn Gathering Promoting the ‘Human’ in Human Rights Marginalisation, Stigma and Choice Policy Reunion: National Standards for Community Engagement Participation Week Launch event – Participation and Citizen Ownership: The Challenge for Government Participation Week – Participation: What Works? Co-production of Public Services: Design and Innovation Keyword: Partnership Economics of Prevention – Policing, Early years, Housing, Smoking in pregnancy Public Service Reform in Health and Social Care: Norwegian and Scottish experiences Making Better Decisions? Using Citizens’ Juries in Scotland Using Evidence to Develop Public Services The Economics of Prevention – Community planning and health Policy Reunion: Community Planning Partnerships Democratic Sector Day
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