Collaborate is recruiting for a new Projects & Relationships Coordinator
About us Collaborate CIC is an innovative social consultancy building the thinking, culture and practice of collaboration to help us meet the challenges of today,…
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Collaborate is recruiting for a new Research & Evaluation Consultant
About us Collaborate CIC is an innovative social consultancy building the thinking, culture and practice of collaboration to help us meet the challenges of today,…
Exploring equity, diversity and inclusion with Human Learning Systems practitioners.
Reducing inequity is a complex and ongoing struggle and one that requires our commitment and persistence. As the Human Learning System (HLS) approach develops, we…
Collaborate’s Spring Newsletter
Spring is in the air, and we have a lot of good news to share from Collaborate HQ! Firstly, we’ve published a new – and…
A Guide to Collaboration: the what, why and how of collaborating
Today we’re pleased to publish A Guide to Collaboration: one of the simplest, and also the hardest, things we’ve ever written at Collaborate! Hard because…
Putting learning and collaboration at the heart of local systems change funding
Further insights from our work with the British Science Association In January we shared the framework we’ve developed alongside the British Science Association (BSA), exploring…
Collaborate is recruiting for a new Business Development and Operations Manager
About us Collaborate CIC is an innovative social consultancy building the thinking, culture and practice of collaboration to help us meet the challenges of today,…
Building a collaborative future
The perils of perma-crisis Times are hard. We know the headlines: climate crisis, the enduring impacts of Covid, the cost of living, war in Europe,…
Beyond project funding: how can funders nurture healthy systems?
Collaborate has been working with the BSA to help them identify what a healthy system for public engagement with research looks like, and develop a funding programme to support this. This is the first in a series of blogs to share our learning so far.
Systems stewardship in practice: What it is and how to get started
Are you trying to collaborate across organisational boundaries but getting stuck due to entrenched behaviours, structures and ways of working? The emerging practice of systems…
Collaborate is recruiting for a new Head of Practice!
NB we have used the job title Consultant in our adverts as it is more broadly understood, but internally we use the title of Head…
Embedding our values through driving more inclusive recruitment
What does it mean to try to embed values and culture in practice throughout our organisation to help further our mission to build a more…
How flooding spurred a rethink of the relationship between citizen and state in Test Valley
In our recent work with Test Valley Council, we found it inspirational to learn about how they’ve developed relationships with local communities and embedded this…
How can funders really shift power to communities? By losing control
Collaborate’s mission and work is focused on helping create a more collaborative and equitable society. In partnership with The Social Change Agency, Collaborate co-convenes the ‘Losing…
Learning from young people’s vision for public services. (TLDR: It’s not New Public Management)
Chloë Darlington, Policy and Communications Manager at Children England contributes this guest blog during Human Learning Systems Week. Children England’s mission is to change the world…
Covid showed us collaboration is for life, not just for pandemics
Anna Randle, Collaborate’s CEO, asks what did we learn from the pandemic and how can this help us build healthier communities now? The pandemic is an…
Equity, diversity & inclusion
At Collaborate we know that a collaborative society must embrace diverse perspectives, embed inclusive cultures and practices and address inequitable distribution of power and resources….
From ‘Me’ to ‘We’ — Lessons on leading as a systems activist
Tackling complex social problems requires you to act beyond the boundaries of your organisation to change the systems in which these problems are embedded. In…
What does it take to change local systems?
What does it take to change local systems? Following on from two previous blogs (here and here) about our work in partnership with NPC as evaluation and…
Building a Collaborative Society: Reflections from Theodora Cadbury, founder of Xenia
In January we published our Manifesto for a Collaborative Society. Here we explore a ‘green shoot’ that helps demonstrate what a collaborative society looks like and…