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 more sense to be thinking about Report is here, along with the some stand-alone […]

Not Always Movements

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 working towards racial justice.

Working towards reparative justice

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. There’s more about how ActionAid UK is practising feminism and the feminist behaviours framework here

Feminist leadership

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, and how others might build, and are building, on their experiences

Flatpack Democracy

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’ interact, and what that reveals, and some of the ways it might go better. […]

The Entangled Activist

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 address hegemonic power. More from Natasha on this and other subjects at thinkingdoingchanging.com

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 address hegemonic power. More from Natasha on this and other subjects at <a href="http://thinkingdoingchanging.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thinkingdoingchanging.com</a>

Social movements in a time of monsters

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).

Community organising

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.

NGOs Reimagined

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 Depolarization Project here Home

Depolarisation

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 uncertainties around how social and political change really happens. Recognising this tension, we set out […]

No Royal Road

Podcast about campaigning and advocacy - going under the surface to explore how social and political change happens and the ways advocacy can contribute to it. Interview based, with a different theme each podcast. Hosted by Jim Coe.

The Advocacy Iceberg

Ep 28 – Emma Taggart talks about introverts in campaigning

Introverts in campaigning

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

Ep 22 – Shilpa Shah talks about power and privilege More about Shilpa at <a href="http://Shilpa-shah.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shilpa-shah.com</a>

Power and privilege

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?’

Civil Society Futures

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

Passion and purpose

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

Social Power

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

Ep 23 – Elena Blackmore from PIRC [<a href="http://publicinterest.org.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">publicinterest.org.uk</a>] talks about framing and the ‘Framing Equality’ toolkit

Framing

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 in public debates – and how it could be done better.

Lost Voices

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 of it being practical and useful.

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

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

Engagement Organizing

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 course here: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/journalism-and-mass-communication-courses/2018-19/september/full-time/media-campaigning-and-social-change-ma?next-year=1

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 course here: <a href="https://www.westminster.ac.uk/journalism-and-mass-communication-courses/2018-19/september/full-time/media-campaigning-and-social-change-ma?next-year=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.westminster.ac.uk/journalism-and-mass-communication-courses/2018-19/september/full-time/media-campaigning-and-social-change-ma?next-year=1</a>

Power

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