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Friday Selection Box: 19th November 2021

Heritage, creativity, and mental health Wonderful new report from the Resolution Trust for the Baring Foundation as part of their Creatively Minded series.  Lots of case study stories to think about. Creative recruitment I have been really inspired by two tweets on doing recruitment differently this week from Watershed and the Princes Trust.  Watershed:  make…

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Friday Selection Box: 12th November 2021

Major report on workforce diversity out: the Creative Majority Report  This new report from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Creative Diversity has been written by Natalie Wreyford, Dave O’Brien and Tamsyn Dent.  27 policy recommendations on ambition, allyship, accessibility, adaptability and accountability.  A must read. Personal action on climate change The Behavioural Insights Team…

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Friday Selection Box: 5th November 2021

Forget flexibility.  Your employees want autonomy Interesting article exploring what people want from working flexibly and how to implement it through the lens of self-determination. …the flexibility [employees] want is conditional upon their ability to exercise it in a way that best fits them. In other words, it’s conditional upon autonomy. The function and purposes…

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Friday Selection Box: 29th October 2021

The Menopause and the Workplace Charity lawyers, Bates Wells, are hosting a free webinar on this important but much neglected and undiscussed area. Women over the age of 50 are the fastest growing demographic in the workforce, and the average age for the menopause transition is 51….. Three out of five participants in a recent CIPD…

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Friday Selection Box: 22nd October 2021

These Things Matter Workshops Three workshops sessions available. These Things Matter is a project partnership between Museum of Colour (MoC), the Bodleian Libraries and Fusion Arts. The aim is to build a small exhibition through a collaborative process. We want to investigate the ideas and relationships that maintained systems of empire and slavery. People, Place,…

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Friday Selection Box: 15th October 2021

A guide to implementing a four day week As we re-think how we work a good guide from HBR on how to turn dreams into reality New Theatre Access Survey out Disabled people have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, faced by a ‘triple jeopardy’: the increased risk of poor outcomes from the disease, reduced…

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Friday Selection Box: 1st October 2021

Audience engagement re-invented For over forty years Clean Break has been using theatre to highlight the injustices and damage done to women by the criminal justice system.  Their latest play – Typical Girls – is on at the Crucible.  As part of the production they have developed a fabulous self-care guide that should be a…

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Friday Selection Box: 17th September 2021

Do you know when to give up? Some great advice for those of us who struggle to let go of a project which isn’t working Learning about Culture: The importance of arts based learning, the limits of what we know about it, and the challenges of evaluating it. Results of the largest UK randomised controlled…

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Friday Selection Box: 10th September 2021

Exploring ideas of professional and non-professional artists Lots of material to think with in a great series of blogs from Francois Matarasso on the differences between professional and non-professional artists Five principles for thinking like a futurist A great piece from the Institute for the Future written in March 2019 which offers a good process…

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Organisational Curiosity: An introduction to Action Research

An introduction to Action Research as a tool for organisational change

Moving into Autumn: a point of reflection

Here we are at the beginning of September. I don’t know about you but it hardly feels like the summer had got going and we’re already at its end. September is one of the way markers in the year for me. We’re moving into Autumn, the start of a new ‘term’ or season, a point…

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Friday Selection Box: 30th July 2021

#shiftthepower A powerful call to action across sectors. How good is the cultural sector at recognising when it needs to give up its power and step back? #ShiftThePower is both a call for new behaviours, mindsets and ways of working and a reminder both that few interactions are ever power neutral and that often, those…

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Friday selection box: 23rd July 2021

The Human Touch: making art | leaving traces Fascinating and timely exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge looking at human touch, the sense whose use has been so restricted in the pandemic, across cultures and time.  Closes on 1 August. Anthro-Vision A new book from anthropologist turned journalist, Gillian Tett …, trying to navigate…

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