Ep 39 – Sarah Stachowiak, Anne Gienapp and Nikki Kalra from ORS Impact talk about their latest report, looking at the over-use and mis-use of movement language, why this is a problem and what large scale social change strategies it might make m

Working towards reparative justice

May 11th, 2020 26m 27s

Ep 38 – Tatiana Gavarito talks about how reparative justice underpins her activism. This is the crowdfunder for Apoyo Comunitario that we talk about. Tatiana is also involved in creating this funding pool to support individuals and communities

Feminist leadership

Jan 24th, 2020 32m 39s

Lee Webster talks about feminist leadership. We look at ActionAid’s journey towards implementing feminist leadership principles across the global federation – and what it means for culture and behaviours as well as for programmes and campaigns.

Flatpack Democracy

Dec 16th, 2019 38m 8s

Ep 36 Peter Macfadyen talks about Independents for Frome and their experience as a collective of independents running the local town council, trying to do local politics differently. We talk about their approach, what they learnt along the way,

The Entangled Activist

Oct 17th, 2019 32m 1s

Ep 35 – Anthea Lawson from Perspectiva discusses how we should see activism as sitting within what it is trying to change, and how this creates all kinds of entanglements for activists to navigate. We focus on how activists and ‘non-activists’

Social movements in a time of monsters

Jul 24th, 2019 26m

Ep 34 – Natasha Adams talks about social movements, the different actors involved in them and what kinds of strategies make sense in the current climate of uncertainty. In that context, we talk about how social movements can understand and addr

Community organising

Jun 11th, 2019 51m 50s

Ep 33 – Stephanie Leonard from Act Build Change talks about community organising theory and practice, from Saul Alinsky to Rules for Revolutionaries, via Jane McAlevey and Bob Moses (and some others).

NGOs Reimagined

May 16th, 2019 32m 22s

Ep 32 – Habiba Nabatu talks about the ‘NGOs Reimagined’ initiative, which is calling on international NGOs to tackle the ecological, economic and social crises that we face holistically and in ways that take into account history and power.

Depolarisation

Apr 8th, 2019 32m 28s

Ali Goldsworthy, the founder and CEO of the Depolarization Project, talks about polarisation in society and why and how we might think more about depolarising, and the role that campaigning and communications does and could play. More about the

No Royal Road

Mar 21st, 2019 29m 44s

Ep 30 – Rhonda Schlangen talks about a paper we have written together and has just been published: No Royal Road. It explores the tension at the heart of advocacy, and advocacy evaluation, between wanting clear answers and the inherent uncertai

Policy making and the capacity to deliver

Feb 26th, 2019 33m 42s

Ep 29 – Tom Pollard talks about his recent paper ‘Pathways from Poverty: A case for institutional reform’ based on his experiences of being seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions [DWP]. He asks and answers the question, ‘is the DWP ca

Introverts in campaigning

Dec 4th, 2018 34m 25s

Ep 28 – Emma Taggart talks about introverts in campaigning

Passion and purpose

Oct 18th, 2018 25m 21s

Ep 27 – Jonathan Ellis talks about the importance of passion and purpose in campaigning

Social Power

Sep 20th, 2018 29m 16s

Ep 26 – Sue Tibballs from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation talks about their recent report, Social Power, which looks at how civil society can be most effective in creating change

Civil Society Futures

Jul 24th, 2018 28m 59s

Ep 25 – Joe Hall talks about the the findings so far from the Civil Society Futures inquiry – as summarised in their recent report, ‘The Story Of Our Times: Power In Our Hands?’

Lost Voices

Jun 28th, 2018 25m 24s

Ep 24 – Jinan Younis talks about the Lost Voices report, recently published by the Social Change Agency, which looks at how and how well digital campaigning supports the voices of people with lived experience to be heard by decision makers and

Framing

Jun 11th, 2018 32m 35s

Ep 23 – Elena Blackmore from PIRC [publicinterest.org.uk] talks about framing and the ‘Framing Equality’ toolkit

Power and privilege

May 25th, 2018 39m 17s

Ep 22 – Shilpa Shah talks about power and privilege More about Shilpa at Shilpa-shah.com

Making monitoring & evaluation as simple as possible (but not simpler)

May 11th, 2018 33m 3s

Ep 21 Sarah Rose talks about developing an approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning across the advocacy and campaigning programme at Save the Children International, and the challenges in balancing the need for rigour and the importance

Engagement Organizing

Apr 18th, 2018 27m 3s

Ep 20 – Matt Price talks about his book Engagement Organizing, and organising approaches and strategies more generally

Riding The Waves

Mar 2nd, 2018 34m 22s

Ep 19 – Alice Sachrajda talks about the role of popular culture in catalysing social change

Level Up

Feb 12th, 2018 21m 7s

Ep 18 – Sondhya Gupta talks about new feminist organisation Level Up – setting it up and its goals and strategy

Power

Nov 17th, 2017 32m 54s

Ep 17 – Michaela O’Brien and Anastasia Kavada who run the MA course in Media Campaigning and Social Change at the University of Westminster talk about power, and Steven Lukes’ concepts of visible, hidden and invisible power more about the cours

Craftivism

Oct 13th, 2017 25m 56s

Ep 16 – Sarah Corbett talks about craftivism and her new book ‘How to be a Craftivist: The Art of Gentle Protest’

Challenging immigration detention

Sep 19th, 2017 29m 31s

Ep 15 – Eiri Ohtani from the Detention Forum talks about the campaign to challenge the UK’s approach to immigration detention, and the strategies and approaches the Detention Forum network has developed to tackle this difficult policy area.