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...work like Arnstein’s ‘ladder of participation’ and the World Health Organisation’s Alma Ata declaration, in which they declared that health systems should create opportunities for citizens to help shape decision about health-care, and that citizens should take them up. Volunteering suffers from similar definitional uncertainty but one excellent overview places it...

...social and environmental challenges. [Empathy tree memory box] Empathy Tree: a memory box (left) and bio-sensing jewellery (right). Photo by Bart van Overbeeke. The participants collaborated on a series of ‘prototypes’ to give a material shape to particular questions about the future. A prototype refers to an early version of an artefact that enables an examination of...

...work in the emergency services display? This article looks at the concept of trauma informed practice. ...For police officers and other emergency service workers, being trauma informed (TI) in their professional practice ensures the best outcomes from interactions with both members of the public and colleagues. But what does being TI in practice mean? This article will...

...social problems such as binge drinking, how can a small artisan cider maker take cider away from the streets and back onto the restaurant table? The humble apple - and cider, one of it's most pleasurable products lie at the heart of a new politics of food activism while the decline of the British apple orchard reveals a much wider significance to our understanding of...