The Advocacy Iceberg

Ep 29 – Tom Pollard talks about his recent paper ‘Pathways from Poverty: A case for institutional reform’ based on his experiences of being seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions [DWP]. He asks and answers the question, ‘is the DWP capable of delivering against its goals?’ (Spoiler = no.) We discuss his findings, […]

Ep 28 – Emma Taggart talks about introverts in campaigning

Ep 27 – Jonathan Ellis talks about the importance of passion and purpose in campaigning

Ep 26 – Sue Tibballs from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation talks about their recent report, Social Power, which looks at how civil society can be most effective in creating change

Ep 25 – Joe Hall talks about the the findings so far from the Civil Society Futures inquiry – as summarised in their recent report, ‘The Story Of Our Times: Power In Our Hands?’

Ep 24 – Jinan Younis talks about the Lost Voices report, recently published by the Social Change Agency, which looks at how and how well digital campaigning supports the voices of people with lived experience to be heard by decision makers and in public debates – and how it could be done better.

Ep 23 – Elena Blackmore from PIRC [publicinterest.org.uk] talks about framing and the ‘Framing Equality’ toolkit

Ep 22 – Shilpa Shah talks about power and privilege More about Shilpa at Shilpa-shah.com

Ep 21 Sarah Rose talks about developing an approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning across the advocacy and campaigning programme at Save the Children International, and the challenges in balancing the need for rigour and the importance of it being practical and useful.

Ep 20 – Matt Price talks about his book Engagement Organizing, and organising approaches and strategies more generally