In this piece for Joining the Dots Ray Shostak considers the “enabling conditions” for developing relational practice and suggests a framework for …
Joining the Dots: Who is helping who? Co-production and professional boundaries within social care services
In this piece Joining The Dots, Nick Andrews discusses the true nature of co production and how good support is founded in, …
Joining the Dots: Time for ‘relationship-centred government’? How about it Mr Johnson?
In this Joining the Dots blog, David Robinson, who leads the Relationships Project, challenges the UK’s new Prime Minister to …
Empowering single parents towards financial resilience: what we’ve learnt so far
In this blog, Partnerships Director (and dad of two) Matt shares what we’ve learnt from working with the charity Gingerbread to support …
Joining the Dots: Digital technology isn’t the enemy of warmth within services
In this Joining the Dots blog, Shift’s CEO (and dad to a 3 year old) Nick Stanhope explores ways in …
Jon’s Antipodean adventure
Recently, Shift’s US Director Jon headed over to Australia and New Zealand for a tour of library, museum and community …
Case Study: OTR
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: WEvolution
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Big Picture Learning
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Every One, Every Day
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Social Violence Reduction Unit
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Joining the Dots: We can do this, we’re doing it now
In this Joining the Dots blog, Shift board member and community worker David Robinson shows what a relational approach looks …
Gaming to tackle anxiety: what BfB Labs learnt from a low-fi pilot
The team at BfB Labs works to empower young people to improve their mental health by building engaging and effective digital …
Case Study: Supermarkets
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: START
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Amplify NI
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: COOK
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Joining the Dots: A Common Field
The Relationships Project is working with others on sharing and discussing ideas. We hope this work will ultimately help to …
Case Study: The Frome Model of Enhanced Primary Care
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Big Lunch & Great Get Together
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: The Scottish Men’s Sheds Association
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: GoodGym
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Migrateful
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
VIDEO: Shift’s Development Director on families and food behaviours at #ShopWellEatWell
#ShiftReads: From our bookshelf to yours…
As we head into Spring, the Shift team shares some of the writing that has inspired and challenged us in our …
Case Study: Grow Well Cardiff
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Timpson
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Case Study: Appliances Online
As part of our Relationships Project, we’re collating a series of case studies from a range of sectors and contexts …
Feedback on Relationship-Centred Design Considerations: Round 1
Last month, we (the Relationships Project team) shared a first attempt at a set of relationship-centred design considerations with our …
Extending the Circle
Amongst the responses to the previous blog from the Relationships Project (Talking a little, learning a lot), which discussed ‘circles of …
Building the Ecosystem: an alternative to building the next new thing
Roles, collective assets and putting people at the heart of ecosystems. Blog from CEO Nick Stanhope.
Talking a little, learning a lot
As we have been shaping our ideas about relationship centred design we have been talking a little and learning a …
Immersive gaming to tackle anxiety
Commercial Director Duncan and Innovation Lead Manjul address Mindtech 2018 conference.
#61 THE MINDFUL DESIGNER
Our Innovation Director is showcased in Redjotter’s blog profiling leading designers.
Fusing game design with service design thinking
Get your new, free downloadable Game Service Journey map – perfect for anyone working in health tech, gaming, service design, UX, …
8 tips for someone new to innovation design
Bethan is a Project Coordinator who joined Shift this year. She has a background in the youth sector (previously working …
3 challenges to embedding a user-centred design approach
Last week I went along to #Design4Charities2018, an event hosted by Uscreates to explore the different ways charities and …
Changing Places Pilot Summary
Building a social enterprise to tackle childhood obesity Part 2: Validating the concept
Kids are becoming obese at earlier ages and staying obese for longer. We’re taking a design thinking approach to building …
Using design to solve the problems of rural isolation and loneliness amongst the elderly
Lead Researcher Immy Robinson features in radio series The Fix, in which “12 of the country’s brightest young minds gather to solve difficult social problems” – this episode: rural isolation and loneliness amongst the elderly.
Building a social enterprise to tackle childhood obesity: part 1 – The process to get to a valid concept
Kids are getting fatter. Generations are becoming obese at earlier ages and staying obese for longer. This is a …
(Re)Introducing the Shift US Team
Since 2011, Shift has had a presence in the United States and has been growing since then. Originally located in …
Shift’s first ever Annual Awards
Here at Shift we have developed a clear idea of how we want to act as an organisation, which we …
Designing for social isolation with BBC Radio Four’s ‘The Fix’
At the end of last week I headed west to the picturesque town of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, to record the first …
5 Principles of Continuously Improving Social Impact
Confidence, great data, living breathing plans, design skills and consensus. Blog from CEO Nick Stanhope.
Architecting Sustainable Futures: Exploring Funding Models in Community-Based Archives
Gaming to treat anxiety co-creation workshop: A debrief
On Tuesday 8th May, we hosted the second co-creation session of this Innovate UK funded project. The challenge was to: …
Scale with Care: 6 Ways Early Stage Social Innovation Gets Killed Off
Assumptions, failure, targets and flexibility in scaling social innovation projects. Blog from CEO Nick Stanhope.