We are excited to launch our new line of QuickSense applications, built on SenseMaker®. A QuickSense is a pioneering way to gather qualitative data about people’s observations and experiences, turned into analysis by the respondents themselves! So, you get authentic analyses of real experiences, rather than external interpretations of them. Results are demonstrated using simple […]
This post continues the narrative theme that I have been working through over the last few weeks with two purposes: (i) to add to what has been a thirty-year body of work and (ii) to prepare for an easy-to-use set of tools to understand, and as significantly to change, underlying attitudes in a range of […]
There is a little of the old and the new in the imagery I have used in this post. I took the banner picture on an evening walk along the Ridgeway from its official start on Overton Hill. The Ridgeway is one of the ancient pathways in Europe, and it can be walked as far […]
Still there and is still finding its way out to you, even if it is a trickle rather than a flood. For anyone who needs a reminder about what this is even about, in this group of blogs, we are sharing some of the insights gleaned from the open project run by the climate change and sustainability […]
Yesterday, the alarm went off at 0500 to allow me to drive up to Liverpool for a series of meetings that started at 1000 and finished at 1930. Thanks to an accident on the M5, which necessitated a cross-country diversion through the Cotswolds, I got home shortly before midnight. It wasn’t strictly necessary to be […]
Thank you both, Beth Smith and Rhiannon Davies, for your outstanding contributions to the White Paper. In a world that constantly generates data at an unprecedented pace, making sense of it all can be a daunting task. This is true whether you are monitoring and evaluating the impact of initiatives, projects, programmes or interventions. SenseMaker® […]
Communication and language are both amazing inventions and fraught with complexity. Nina dove into this issue in her Complexity in Communicating post last year. As many of us know, from the first time we heard Dave speak, it can take a lot of work and navigation to really understand what someone means with the words […]
One of my favourite books in the Swallows and Amazons series is Great Northern in which our heroes ultimately save the eggs of a pair of Great Northerns from a malicious egg collector. The final scene in which TItty and Dick return the eggs to their parents is especially poignant. Those two characters are […]
In this look at the MassSense data, we turn to age. The older participants are, the more prominent the anticipation of change in people’s values becomes. The oldest also see the possibility of building bridges between ideological and institutional change. One of the dimensions we asked participants to assess the Covid-associated images against was the […]
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