Dusty Columbia Embury
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Dusty Columbia Embury
Yes and… understand your stage
Blog post by David Week Last week Alfredo Ortiz asked the question, “Should we be encouraging and training students to challenge dominant practice? ” What drove you and your firm over time to engage in this risky yet rewarding shift that you are attempting.” My view, yes. I did my first degrees at Berkeley, which […]
Read More...Co-create with stakeholders: Action research approach in service development
Abstract on behalf of Päivi J Tossavainen This paper promotes the value of including many stakeholders in service development. The experience of co-creative service development is examined through the lens of action research. Engaging multiple stakeholders in face-to-face, in simultaneous joint activities, from various organisations, with different levels of hierarchy, and dissimilar positions, may increase […]
Read More...Should we be encouraging and training students to challenge dominant practice?
Blog post by Alfredo Ortiz This blog is in response to David Week’s post last week. Thanks for these insights David. I also feel the constraints of funder agendas and my colleague Kent is particularly interested in the constraints that control/quantitative evidence movement is generating. At the same time, I have been fortunate to have worked […]
Read More...Design strategies from sexual exploitation and sex work studies among women and girls: Methodological considerations in a hidden and vulnerable population
Abstract on behalf of Lara Gerassi, Tonya Edmond, and Andrea Nichols The study of sex trafficking, prostitution, sex work, and sexual exploitation is associated with many methodological issues and challenges. Researchers’ study designs must consider the many safety issues related to this . Community advisory boards and key stakeholder involvement are essential to study design to increase safety […]
Read More...We need a new business model
Blog Post by David Week I think this is your most critical insight: “I’ll add one more–we believed ourselves to be “neutral” facilitators helping an organization move from point a to point b. We saw ourselves as “outside” the system.” Of course, you are not outside the system, you are within it, and “the system” […]
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