Category Archives: Work
ICYMI: Domestic violence victims are disappearing from homeless statistics
Good News! According to recent government figures, domestic violence has been decreasing… or has it? Read more on the Guardian
ICYMI: Domestic violence victims are disappearing from homeless statistics
Good News! According to recent government figures, domestic violence has been decreasing… or has it? Read more on the Guardian
Open data, not statutory figures, will reveal the extent youth homelessness
Original published by Inside Housing (and therefor behind paywall) Despite extensive cuts to local authority budgets, millions of pounds are pouring from the public purse into youth homelessness services without any way of knowing what does and doesn’t work. “The
Open data, not statutory figures, will reveal the extent youth homelessness
Original published by Inside Housing (and therefor behind paywall) Despite extensive cuts to local authority budgets, millions of pounds are pouring from the public purse into youth homelessness services without any way of knowing what does and doesn’t work. “The
It’s (a)live!
Originally posted on Youth-led, data-driven and digital team ending youth homelessness:
The Youth Homelessness Databank is now live (and kicking) and brimming with local authority and government data. Take a look and find out how you can get involved! The…
It’s (a)live!
Originally posted on Youth-led, data-driven and digital team ending youth homelessness:
The Youth Homelessness Databank is now live (and kicking) and brimming with local authority and government data. Take a look and find out how you can get involved! The…
Countdown to HACK!
Originally posted on Youth-led, data-driven and digital team ending youth homelessness:
Final call for data viz and Tableau ninjas! Will you step up to the challenge?! Our Youth Homelessness Hack on Saturday 7th May is just a couple of days…
Countdown to HACK!
Originally posted on Youth-led, data-driven and digital team ending youth homelessness:
Final call for data viz and Tableau ninjas! Will you step up to the challenge?! Our Youth Homelessness Hack on Saturday 7th May is just a couple of days…
From the Archives: The (Mind) Games: are you training your brain enough?
A post I found whilst cleaning up this blog, all the way from the heady Olympic summer of 2012. This is what Thought Menu became, after all that. It’s not just your legs that benefit from a good work-out: they
From the Archives: The (Mind) Games: are you training your brain enough?
A post I found whilst cleaning up this blog, all the way from the heady Olympic summer of 2012. This is what Thought Menu became, after all that. It’s not just your legs that benefit from a good work-out: they
Just how many young people are homeless every year?
Post from October 2016, when my team published a report into the nature of youth homelessness in the UK. Very proud of the Centrepoint Databank team – as reported in The Independent and BBC News we have found that youth
Just how many young people are homeless every year?
Post from October 2016, when my team published a report into the nature of youth homelessness in the UK. Very proud of the Centrepoint Databank team – as reported in The Independent and BBC News we have found that youth
5-4-3-2-1: a community round-up
This is a slightly edited version of five posts I wrote whilst at the RSA, to put down in words everything I knew about community, which I used as a basis for a CharityWorks talk in January 2016. It is
5-4-3-2-1: a community round-up
This is a slightly edited version of five posts I wrote whilst at the RSA, to put down in words everything I knew about community, which I used as a basis for a CharityWorks talk in January 2016. It is
Are you well-connected?
A toolkit-in-progress: five ways to thinking about being well-connected. It is an exciting time in the RSA’s Connected Communities team. Alongside our academic partners UCLAN and LSE, we are approaching an interesting milestone in our seven-site, five year Connected Communities programme that seeks to understand how community and social connections affect
Are you well-connected?
A toolkit-in-progress: five ways to thinking about being well-connected. It is an exciting time in the RSA’s Connected Communities team. Alongside our academic partners UCLAN and LSE, we are approaching an interesting milestone in our seven-site, five year Connected Communities programme that seeks to understand how community and social connections affect
Stars and Thunderstorms: community weaving in Merseyside
Some of the best things about this job are the wonderful people I work with, and the inspiring projects that they are involved with. This week I went up to Merseyside to playback some of our research findings,and find out
Stars and Thunderstorms: community weaving in Merseyside
Some of the best things about this job are the wonderful people I work with, and the inspiring projects that they are involved with. This week I went up to Merseyside to playback some of our research findings,and find out
Social Mirror: quite new a thing!
The new website is up (she is a mere mannequin…)
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