Ratio Talks

📢Ratio Talks is back kicking off today with @pstamber asking Michael Little about his new paper, in which he argues how a better *balance* between civil society and state sits at the core of public system reform. ratio.org.uk/rtalks/kicking…

"I'm not a very moral agent, I'm a pissed off agent"..... @MaffPotts on being human in his chat with Michael Little on his latest podcast. Listen to it here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rat… #WeAreCamerados @ratiotalks

Social activist @SrdjaPopovic, part of the movement that overthrew President Slobodan Milošović in Serbia in 2000, will be a Ratio Talks guest in a few weeks talking about the role of moral agents in social change. michaellittle.substack.com/p/people-power… @canvasnvs @uva #peoplepoweracademy

This is well worth a listen if you’re nerdy about the same sort of things I am (community, power, the relationship between individual and collective health, informal networks vs formal institutions, how change really happens etc)

If 5+5+weak ties is a normative pattern of social connection, how does that pattern look like for those whose lives are weighed down by disadvantage? Answers to these questions can have significant practice and policy implications. #ConversationsThatCount

Aristotle's taxonomy of relationships -for pleasure, utility and goodness alone- still resonates today. @becasandu goes back to the ancient Greek philosophy to understand relationships. Tune in! open.substack.com/pub/becasandu/…

If your thing is *relationships*, you probably have talked about or asked or found out ways of how to capture their 'magic'. It's one of those Conversations that Count. This series by @becasandu 👇is contributing to it...

We are so excited to continue ~thanks to @TNLUK~ our work in supporting moral agents across England and Scotland to galvanise pure civil society in their communities! Stay tuned…

#TogetherWeLead Do you want to talk about power dynamics in B&D? Join Lela @Kogbara, @ProfDonnaHall, Eli from @blagravetrust, Michael from @ratiotalks and the @CollectiveBD team to discuss how we can shift power to improve outcomes for local people. buff.ly/44J5JyJ

What happens when civil society comes together to solve social problems? Working together is starting to create social and economic benefits for more social sector organisations and local people.#TogetherWeLead Find out more on 28th June

Time’s Up! Civil society can't keep waiting for government or funders to fix entrenched local problems. Do you agree? Join @ratiotalks @juliaunwin @Avril_McIntyre for drinks and a talk about civil society's role in leading the change. eventbrite.co.uk/e/together-we-… #TogetherWeLead

Civil society has the knowledge, skills and potential to explore solutions together. BD_Collective's learning over the last 4 yrs has been captured by @ratiotalks. The time is right for civil society to lead in a broken system. Together We Can! U ready? bit.ly/BDCollectiveTo…

6 months ago @pstamber kicked off the #communitypower series. Over 10 episodes we talked with & learned from amazing guests working day in/out to bring community power to the fore of a just and dignified living. 📢 Pritpal & Michael conclude the series. ratio.org.uk/rtalks/pritpal…

The penultimate episode of Ratio Talks on #community power brings former Chief Executive of @WiganCouncil @ProfDonnaHall who exudes the idea that leadership comes from a deep connection to people, not a title. @pstamber ratio.org.uk/rtalks/donna-h…

The penultimate episode in our 11-part series on community power is a conversation with @ProfDonnaHall on how Wigan Council changed its relationship with the people they serve cc @ratiotalks @becasandu ratio.org.uk/rtalks/donna-h…

I wrote about #death this week. About how it's medicalised. Civil society needs to be brought back. And about how death helped @dr_tonyiton (our podcast guest) see structures that create inequity @CalEndow Podcast ratio.org.uk/rtalks/tony-it… My post below pstamber.com/death-structur…

In a recent Bitesize Webinar, LocalMotion members learned about community-funding initiative, Street to Scale, a platform by @ratiotalks that funds citizens directly to do good and build trust in their community: localmotion.org.uk/stories/localm…

@LocalMotionUK Thanks for the *spotlight*, @LocalMotionUK! One friendly amendment for those who read the post: Street to Scale trusts, not approves, citizen initiatives (no application, no need to set up an org, no need for a board, no catch).

In today’s Ratio Talks episode @dr_tonyiton of @CalEndow shows how a 10-year investment (US$2bn) in facilitating agency and voice amongst the people closest to the pain can change the conditions that impact their lives. 1700 system change wins. @pstamber ratio.org.uk/rtalks/tony-it…

Dying has become unbalanced. Health care is where many encounter death. Communities are pushed to the margins. Join @libby_sallnow, Michael Little, & @pstamber present a new model to re-balance death & dying using #communitypower and systems science eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebalancing-…