Press release February 2018 The NSPCC have appointed the not-for-profit organisation Shift as their insights partner for a new national …
Shift’s healthier fast food adventure
The story so far… Shift has been working to increase healthier food habits over the last six years. Here we …
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Designing products that empower parents
Insight report exploring the parenting journey, the associated feelings, thoughts, desires and behaviours, a review of the sources of support throughout. Plus …
From Gordon Gekko to Grant Funding: leveraging the full spectrum of capital to solve social problems
Whole Child and Shift: A Dynamic Duo
Whole Child International discuss why they are working with Shift to develop tools and a framework to scale-up their approach to care-giving.
Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit: One Year On
This report summarizes some of the core findings of the Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit–themes that have also arisen in many other cultural heritage conferences and meetings over the past year:
- Safe Space for Disruptive Dialogue
- Funding for Transformative Gatherings
- Equitable and Ethical Collaboration
- Diversifying Technology Production in Cultural Heritage Spaces
- Integrating Community Archives Into Traditional Cultural Heritage Spaces
- Social Innovation and Rethinking Goals and Objectives in the Cultural Heritage Sector
Designing toolkits to help leaders run effective, engaging and consistent Guided Reflection with NCS
Over the course of 2017, we worked closely with the National Citizen Service to improve the consistency and effectiveness of …
Our Theory of Change: The Science Behind Historypin’s Storybox, Part 1
Historypin’s Storybox seeks to help address one of the big problems of our time: the increasingly stark disconnections and divisions …
What have we learnt and now what? Part ten of Connecting Well.
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the tenth in a series of blogs.
Beauty of Care: Part nine of Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the ninth in a series of blogs.
Research trip to El Salvador
Here at Shift we have expanded our work to projects in Central America, where we are now working with Whole …
The Heart of the Matter: Part eight of Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the eigth in a series of blogs.
Relational offset, the new imperative: Part seven of Connecting Well.
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the seventh in a series of blogs.
Humbug or Hallelujah? Part six of Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the sixth in a series of blogs.
Joining the Dots: Part five of Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the fifth in a series of blogs.
Land of our children: Part four of Connecting well.
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the fourth in a series of blogs.
Doing what anyone would do: Part three of Connecting well.
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the third in a series of blogs.
Human beings being human: Part two of Connecting well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the second in a series of blogs.
Connecting Well
David Robinson is Shift’s founder and a community worker in east London. He is currently exploring new work on social isolation at the Marshall Institute. This is the first in a series of blogs.
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Driving continuous improvement: Insights from funding social tech
Commentable version here. Report giving a set of 5 insights and 8 practical recommendations on how funders and social organisations can …
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Progressively: a model to help organisations improve their impact
The Problem The culture and capacity of the social sector is overly focused on the short-term delivery outputs of social …
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Improving the social investment landscape
The challenge The UK’s social investment landscape is evolving, but there remain many challenges and barriers to its potential as …
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Change The World For a Fiver: a book and social movement
The Problem From climate change to social isolation, our society faces major social, environmental and health issues. Yet these can …
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Designing a replicable approach for supporting children in care
The Problem There are around 8 million children in care institutions worldwide who are at high risk of social, emotional …
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Tip: giving new parents high quality information they’ll love
The Problem Great information and support can help parents to feel confident and capable in the first 1000 days, aiding …
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Luminova: A mobile game to tackle anxiety
I’ve been particularly impressed with how Shift have embraced the research literature and taken a genuine collaborative approach, working in …
Gamification to make story sharing impactful and fun
Our Senior Service designer explains how the Historypin team are injecting elements of gamification into their design process for their …
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Affordable good food for families
The Challenge All children deserve the right to be healthy, no matter where they grow up. This includes access to …
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Storybox: bringing diverse communities together through story sharing
The Challenge We live in increasingly divided communities where the perceived differences between groups with different backgrounds often outweighs what …
Design principles for Historypin’s Storybox
Bringing people together to share stories and experiences with one another has always been intended to be at the core …
Driving continuous improvement: lessons from funding social tech
There is one question that dominates our work at Shift and has done for the last 8 years: how do …
Guest blog from Hidden Women of Design
The Hidden Women of Design initiative showcases and supports women working in the field of Design. In July, they hosted …
New designs on digital support for parents
NCT is nine months into a partnership with design charity Shift, to create a brand new digital service to help …
Not broccoli, not even chocolate covered broccoli, just chocolate.
Duncan Brown, co-founder of BfB Labs, explains the thinking behind developing our video game to improve young people’s mental health, …
Applying Shift’s design approach to The National Citizen Service
The National Citizen Service (NCS) runs a 2-4 week programme for 15 – 17 year olds during their school holidays, …
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0–2s: improving infant emotional development
A review of the factors that contribute to the healthy emotional development of infants in their first thousand days of life. …
Stealthy Healthy Changes: Designing tweaks to fast food outlets to improve health and maintain profits
It’s a bit of a special week this week for the food team as our first intervention tests have gone …
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5 ways to use the Social, User & Financial Value Model for social innovation
Paper by Nick Stanhope, in partnership with The Nominet Trust, exploring five specific ways in which the Social, User & …
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Summary report: 0–2s, Improving infant emotional development
A summary of the factors that contribute to the healthy emotional development of children in their first thousand days of …
How to co-create the future of storytelling
In an age of Brexit and Trump, bridging divided communities might seem like a far fetched dream. But at Historypin, …
Comparte Tu Rollo on Social Media
Comparte tu Rollo
Radio show about the Comparte tu Rollo project in Columbia, teaching basic tech skillls by digitizing history of rural libraries.
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BfB Labs Trial Summary
An evaluation report describing the results of the five trials of Shift’s emotionally responsive biofeedback video game, conducted to investigate …
The Wartime Films Project: Narrowing the Focus of our User-Centered Design Pilot
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Taking a User-Centered Design Approach with the US National Archives
Historypin began working with the US National Archives in 2014 to take a user-centered design approach to cultural heritage and …
5 Lessons in Developing Social Tech Ventures
Digital technology plays a powerful role in the response to social problems. Its doesn’t provide the answers to everything and, by …
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Playing with emotions
An evaluation report describing the results of a test of BfB’s biofeedback video game with two primary schools in Hackney, …
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Healthy Fast Food: Evaluating a new approach to improving the food environment
Evaluation Report Naomi Stoll, Kathleen Collet, Duncan Brown and Sean Noonan