Boingboing shortlisted for the NCCPE Engage Awards 2016
We were very excited to discover that Boingboing was shortlisted as a finalist for the Working in Partnership category of the NCCPE Engage Awards 2016. In this short interview, Simon Duncan tells us more.
Has the resilience ship sailed? A reply to Marc Smith
I am writing in response to your article in the TES 25th March 2016 ‘Has the resilience ship sailed?’. Yes, I am totally in agreement with you that ‘resilience’ is a term bandied about the educational world all the time at the moment, and that there seems to be a lack of clarity and consistency about what it actually means.
MindMate Resilience Conference 2016 blog
Excitement built as we pulled out of the morning rush hour traffic, heading for Leeds, to find a parking space in Elland Road football stadium. I’ve frequently imagined this venue over the years, home to a team who liked to kick lumps out of my champions, Chelsea, in the 70s.
Imagine Exhibition Event September 2016 blog
On Tuesday 6 September 2016 I took my first ever trip to Sheffield for the end of programme exhibition for Imagine, a Connected Communities research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through the Connected Communities programme.
Utopia Fair 2016 event at Somerset House blog
Recently, a crack team of Boingboingers answered a call from our fearless founder, Angie Hart. Our mission, which we accepted, was to promote Boingboing’s resilience tools at the Utopia Fair 2016 by staffing our own Resilience Tools stall. The tools have all been co-produced with young people facing additional barriers to resilience as part of the Designing Resilience Project.
Community partners in New Orleans blog
After many years of hanging around with academics I have learnt that ‘community partners’ is code in the international university world for ‘organisations and people who are NOT quite as important as us’. In my head I have often added my own secret addition ‘but are actually doing real things with real people’. This is why I like working with the Boingboing community and CUPP.
