Follow Your Compassion - The Kings Fund
We supported The Kings Fund with initial research design and systems setup for journal capture, developing questions and prompts, and ensuring that the nurses and midwives had a clear path to express their thoughts and emotions using simple tools.
How we helped The King’s Fund tell the stories of Healthy Communities Together
We believe that storytelling is a powerful way to communicate the impact and value of social change initiatives. That’s why we were thrilled to work with The King’s Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) on their Healthy Communities Together programme, which supports genuine partnership-working in local areas between the voluntary and community sector, the NHS and local authorities to improve the health and wellbeing of local communities.
Changing hearts and minds - Class Divide Podcast
The Class Divide podcast was always going to be a very personal project for me. It was about the place I grew up in, in part about my own school experience, and it was the first time, after many years of making radio and podcasts, that I really put my voice onto something.
Fieldwork Retrospective
I realise I’ve been a bit lax with sharing some of the work I’ve been involved in over the past few years. It’s partly been down to busyness, and partly down to that age old desire to not blow my own trumpet.
But, I had a bit of a realisation the other day. How the heck do I find other cool projects and people to do those projects with if no-one knows what the hell I do. So over the next few weeks I’m going to be sharing some of the key projects that have been a big part of my working life over the last few years.
I’m hoping it will help people understand how to bring me into exciting new projects.
Who Cares?
One of the most rewarding pieces of work I’ve been involved in over the past year is the Who Cares? project. It was done with my Self-Other hat on, along with fellow co-founders Simon Newitt and Emily Macaulay.
Award Winning Fast Forward podcast series for Tomorrow Unlocked
Written and presented by BBC radio broadcaster, author and cultural theorist Ken Hollings, the 6-part series includes insightful interviews with industry, media and academic tech experts who have an eye on the future, against a backdrop of original music and immersive sound design.
Research and Story - Nesta - Asset based community development
2020 was certainly an interesting year. Despite the turmoil, we managed to make four short films for Nesta’s New operating models project. This is one of them, filmed in York during the summer of 2020.
The Bevy in Lockdown
During the initial 8-week lockdown between April and June this year, we supported members of The Bevy team to take part in a research project. They wanted to capture the experience as they dealt with the emotional and practical challenges of lockdown and then looked towards reopening.
Documenting a story with heart - Nesta ShareLab
This is another of the films we made for Nesta, about their ShareLab program. We were brought in to study and document four of the projects funded by Nesta. We take a detailed approach to this kind of work, doing in-depth research before we begin to capture anything. We conduct full interviews with the people involved, which enables us to really get to the heart of the story.
One of our short films for Nesta
We produced this film a little while ago, and it’s just been released publicly. It takes some of our research thinking, brings together our storytelling skills and delivers some neat insight into one of the projects supported by Nesta.
Work in progress - Documenting Nesta Social Movements in Health
We are three months into this six month project with Nesta. We’ve been spending time with different social movements across the UK, observing and documenting their activities. The end result of our work will be six short films.
Our Work: When research and story come together
13 episodes, featuring over 130 local community activists across the UK talking about their work. Brought together by our team of researchers, storytellers, sound artists and writers. The first series has been amazing to work on. Check out some of the episodes below.
New project - The Community Business Fix Podcast
We’ve been busy over the past few months working on a new audio documentary series that brings together our ideas on ethnographic research and compelling ways to deliver what we find.
Nesta ShareLab - Ethnographic storytelling
A recent commission saw us visit three organisations to gather and document stories about their involvement with the Nesta ShareLab project. We made three short films that brought together sound, interviews, music and photography to get under the skin of the work these organisations are doing. We'll share the films soon.
Stories about community business
We were commissioned by Power to Change to document the lives of people involved in two community businesses. We turned the stories into a 30 minute live documentary, delivered in front of an audience. The live documentary was narrated by Fieldwork founder Curtis James, and featured photographs, interviews, video and music.
What's at the heart of a community business?
We were commissioned recently to document life at two community businesses. We've spent the past few weeks immersing ourselves in the lives of these fantastic organisations. The Bevy, is the UK’s only community pub on a housing estate and the Stoneham Bakehouse, is a community bakery promoting wellbeing through real bread.
Gig Economy Journals - A day in their shoes - Elle Coates, Artist
What is 'gig economy' working really like and what are the opportunities and challenges for gig workers? This is part three in our series commissioned by the CIPD to study the lives of gig economy workers. It features Elle, an artist that uses services like TaskRabbit to supplement her income.