The difference a story makes
Hello there! My name’s Kirsty and I’m the researcher who was working on the project to look at the experiences of people who have been involved in u.lab in Scotland which has resulted in the series of blog posts which have been featuring here over the last few months. I’m a PhD student at the […]
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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Help us sense into u.lab Scotland
If you’ve been along to a u.lab Scotland event recently, you’ll be aware that they’ve been hosted by a “holding team” – a self-selecting group of people from across u.lab Scotland with an intention to help grow and sustain u.practices in Scotland. The events have been just one way we’ve been doing this. For the […]
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Crystalizing opportunities in the financial services sector
Alan Thornburrow is the Chief Executive of Scottish Investment Operations, a professional body for the financial services sector in Scotland. During our conversation about his experience of u.lab, he speaks of how he is at the point in his u.lab journey where opportunities are beginning to pop up for him. He notes that the people involved […]
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From “stuck at the bottom of the U” to action
Valerie Jackman is a lecturer at Edinburgh College. In this film, Valerie talks of how she moved from feeling “stuck at the bottom of the U” to taking action on her idea. Many people we talk to also experience being stuck at the bottom of the U. It’s perhaps understandable when many of us don’t […]
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The personal and professional
Eleanor Ogilvie is a Programme Manager with See Me (https://www.seemescotland.org/), Scotland’s programme to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination. When I spoke to her about her motivation for taking part in u.lab she spoke of looking for something that would help her with big system change around ending mental health stigma for people with mental […]
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Connecting back to yourself
This week, we talk to Stephen Gallagher, Deputy Director of Public Bodies and Public Service Reform, Scottish Government as we move further down into the u.process to the Presencing stage or “the bottom of the U”. Presencing is one of those words that doesn’t always sit easily with people but is a blend of sensing […]
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Co-sensing – a deadly conversation
In the final of the series of four blog posts around the co-sensing element within u.lab Kuladharini, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Recovery Consortium, talks about using u.lab tools to have a “Deadly Serious Conversation” around tackling the issue of death from substance misuse. When I spoke to her she noted that this […]
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