New Practices

ESRC funded seminar series in Brighton Sheffield and Sussex, building shared knowledge of practices of community and voluntary organisations in austerity.

[Catherine Will @will_catherine]

Booking now open for non-speakers for @SHI_Foundation event Reconfiguring Care Infrastructures pls RT All welcome!https://t.co/5LgSyVa8tB

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Second half a provocative discussion of ways of bringing Barad's 'diffraction' to our methodologies - beyond reflexivity. #newpractices

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@NicoliniDavide summing up rich discussion of practice theory & methodology for studying 'large scale' #newpractices

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Scalography-study of scoping tech & representation activities w which practitioners construct & circulate largescale phenomena #newpractices

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Rhizome metaphor - love way takes straight back to object - irises, potatoes, ginger. Bulbs sprout from each other. Local and system.

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Offers very practical discussion of what we can do - careful with 'textile metaphors' used to approach practice: bundle, texture, mesh.

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Flat ontology as powerful machine for making everything empirical. Like a 4 yr old ask what is x, why, for what reasons is this constructed.

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@NicoliniDavide offers us three methodological strategies for using PT for large things.

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Starting workshop w @NicoliniDavide thinking about social practices of organisations. Is practice theory just for small things? @ESRC

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Thanks to everyone who came yesterday and for your generosity in sharing ideas for the rest of the series. More soon! #new practices

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More talking to do perhaps on agency, power and empowerment and how those matter to vol sector work and how used in theory #newpractices

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Feels like some very useful discussion of uses & problems of 'care as tinkering' between practitioners & researchers #newpractices

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Different values being negotiated not only between providers and payers but also different workers, here doctors

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Vicky Singleton starting her keynote for our day talking about space for care #newpractices @ESRC

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Simon Whitwell @BHT_Sussex describing work of Btn Housing Trust & gap getting info in first meeting & client feeling heard #newpractices

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Ref to toast & spreads as 'hook', something to share & nutrition for young people engaging w Hangleton & knoll youth project #new practices

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Tensions across community devel & youth work frames. YW individualises thro' emph on actualisation/getting them to diff place #new practices

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Helen from Hangleton and Knoll Youth project - where ward boundary makes 'community' as spatial, but include divisions. #new practices

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Love rough uncut video on @MothersUncoverd as well as photos of smiling faces capturing 'feel good factor' #newpractices @sussexpsnetwork

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Maggie from @MothersUncoverd on model where participants become facilitators, providing peer support in post natal period #newpractices