Hello digital world and happy new year! In the wet and cold of winter, it is invigorating to be heading to the Oxford Real Farming Conference for the next two days. Anyone got any tips or want to meet up? Get in touch! Here are some sessions I’ve got
post 8 of 100. #100DaystoOffload Sue Pritchard (of the FFCC) recommended Adam Kahane to me. (Thanks, Sue!) (I am a bit ambivalent about his past working for big oil companies though...) His writing on collaboration is not groundbreaking.* But has some helpful bits, and has also helped break me out
post 7 of 100. 280 days left for #100DaystoOffload - so it's still achievable(!) I'm learning the basics of social network analysis (SNA). A key reference is the textbook Analyzing Social Networks Using R by Borgatti, Everett, Johnson and Agneessens. I attended their 1-week introductory "
(From the interpersonal dynamics of listening... working towards understanding the collaboration structures that shape what interactions are even likely or possible in food systems work) In the UK food systems space—at least from the civil society perspective—it is often said that it's a small world, that
post 5 of #100DaystoOffload Last post I introduced three points in a constellation about listening. Some excerpts from Friedman and Packer about nondefensive listening; Rogers and Farson about active listening; and Manske about the relationship between safety, curiosity, openness and learning. Now coming back to these, it's time
post 4 of #100DaystoOffload The library on the Holy Isle is a place for serendipitous stumbling into teachings I wouldn't otherwise encounter. On retreat there last year, I came across The Work of This Moment, by and about Toni Packer, a former Zen buddhist. This year, I couldn&
post 3 of the #100DaystoOffload challenge one thinker I admire a lot is Erik Olin Wright (RIP). he did a lot of work on better understanding class and power; on "envisioning real utopias"; and elaborating a framework for anticapitalist coalitions (including those who just want to "tame&
post 2 of 100 for the #100DaysToOffload challenge one of the most cited research papers of all time is Braun and Clarke (2006) "Using thematic analysis in psychology". at least as a UK PhD student working with qualitative data, i'd have to be stubborn, short-sighted or
learning in public also means being vulnerable in public. as we entered 2025 i had some zeal and focus on writing, deliberate practice, and putting my thoughts out into the world. and... since then i've only posted on here twice. the fate of most blogs and projects that
[the questing hero introduces the animal companion; with an unexpected dive into paleontology and 19th century science communication.] like many aspiring adventurers, i don't want to go it alone. it will do me well to have an animal companion accompany me on my quest. and i'm
I have started a PhD. Now three months through, I have found my bearings, and—after what sometimes seemed like just a lot of admin (project planning, navigating bureaucracy)—it feels like I am truly getting started. A good time, then, to put some introductory words out into the world!