The power of ‘storytelling’ under COVID: ensuring compelling accounts that impact change

Over the last four months of unprecedented disruption and suffering under the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been some fantastic efforts by community and voluntary organisations to capture the everyday struggles of people under lockdown. ‘Storytelling’ has become a popular approach for encouraging people from a wide range of backgrounds to share their experiences of life…

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…