With one day to go until ulabx begins here’s all you need to know about ulab and the course.
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Two weeks to go until u.lab1x!
The countdown to u.lab1x has begun with only two weeks to go until the course begins.
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Theory U in Practice
A new guest blog from Jane Cantrell, Brendan McCormack and Clare Cable, who share their experience of facilitating the new Queen’s Nurse Programme and celebrate its roots in Theory U.
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From a hunch to a prototype
I’m Katy McNeil. I work in the Scottish Government as an Improvement Adviser. I became involved with ulab back in 2015 to explore how I could blend ideas and tools from ulab with ideas and tools from improvement. There is overlap, and I’ve found that considering where I, and the projects I support are at […]
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Peace after a long journey
Continuing our series of blog posts shining a light on the new Scottish content of u.lab (or the SMOOC), Kuladharini shares the insights she gained from her 500 mile walk around Scotland in the summer. An unravelling is taking place in me at some level during these moments of presencing, bits of identity are falling off […]
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I have trouble with words
Today’s guest blogger is Linda Hunter. Linda is a coach, working with people and teams across the Scottish Government, sharing her experience and building other’s capability to make change centred on people and outcomes. Linda has been part of the Scottish u-lab community for 2 years and has been busy this year bringing together her […]
Read moreSense-making across the Health and Social Care ecosystem
The point behind posting this here is the ease with which I was able to re-use U.Lab tools and processes within an everyday corporate setting, and the readiness of those involved to pick them up and engage. My hope is that you too will be encouraged to do a bit of re-purposing yourself! [This story […]
Read moreTackling inequalities prototypes
In the final of the series of blog posts on prototyping we return to the NHS Lanarkshire Hub who began our impact stories series. All the members have individual prototypes that they have been working on, although they are linked through the theme of tackling inequalities. The groups’ ideas cover work within citizen’s advice bureau […]
Read moreYou might not know where the idea is going or what it’s going to look like but that’s okay
Next in our series of posts around prototyping, Allison Johnstone, the Training and Development Manager at Equate Scotland, talks about the prototype she began working on in 2015 and has continued to work on this year. Equate Scotland are an organisation working on making a positive difference for women in science engineering, technology and the […]
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“We prototype a lot, we just didn’t know that’s what it was called”
The prototyping part of the U can be something that is difficult for people to recognise, with participants speaking of being unsure what a prototype is and when they are actually prototyping. Our series now moves on to looking at participants’ stories of prototyping with Brendan Rooney the Executive Director of Healthy n Happy Community Development […]
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