ABOUT TIME: Examining the case for a shorter working week

 LSE Public Lecture & drinks reception

11 January 2012, 6.00-7.30 pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 2AE

and

Expert Colloquium (invitation-only)

12 January, 9.30 am - 3.30 pm

Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins…

Hi there,

NESTA have published the shortlist of organisations who have successfully got through the first round of their innovations in giving funding. You'll see some familiar faces on the list. There are short (3 min) videos about each of the ideas which you might find illuminating or inspiring.

Also on the NESTA site is the…

Hello everyone,

I thought some of you might be interested in this event being hosted by nef on the need for a local banking system

Hello all!

For all of those based in and around London, you may be interested to know that there is an upcoming practitioners meeting planned for November the 30th between 10-12.

George Garrad of Look Ahead Housing has kindly offered to host this event at the Aldgate Hostel. For more information and to sign up for a place click…

Hello everyone,

this is a message posted on behalf of Ruth Dineen

Your help needed to co-produce a Co-production Toolkit!

I recently received a teaching award which I hope to use to co-produce a Co-production Toolkit, based on inspirational cross-sector case-studies.

You might be using co-production approaches already, or you might not; you might be using the term ‘co-production’ or you might not. Either way, I’d really like to know what…

I just wanted to say thank you to those who got in touch and helped out at our recent co-production event in Lambeth, it seemed to go very well and I have had lots of positive feedback.

I thought I would share the write up of the event which I have pulled together on Storify here http://sfy.co/LSw this has all…

nef is launching an exciting 30 month project which seeks to improve outcomes for young people and their families by improving the way that Services for Young People are designed, commissioned and delivered. Through our work with commissioners in Surrey, Camden and Kirklees, nef has developed the theory and application of both co-production and commissioning for outcomes.

nef has recently secured funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to support two local authorities in the…

I wanted to share with you some information about a participative decision-making method called Crowd Wise, developed by a colleague of mine, Perry Walker (now a nef fellow). I'm sure many of you will know of and use methods like Open Space and …