Assessing the wellbeing of a population: find ways to ‘listen to’ and not just ‘see’ data

I read with great interest Katherine Trebeck’s blog for Open Democracy proposing a “new economic system”, based on valuing collaboration, community and the reduction of inequalities. She describes being called “naïve” by a fellow panellist when presenting her vision at a recent conference, and recounts her critic’s argument that if we just “look at the…

Strengthen qualitative approaches to tackle threats to public participation

The importance of representing the voice(s) of the public in decision-making has never been more widely acknowledged. We can be proud of the shifts in recent decades that have helped to embed meaningful public participation and engagement in a range of fields in the UK, including local and national policy making, health and social care…