Winter Newsletter: Diversity
Posted by Esther at 10.03am on 4 March 2010
You can view our Winter Newsletter here.
What are we up to?
In the Press: Every Child
Posted by Graham at 2.13pm on 25 February 2010
Our methods lend themselves very well to developing skills in mediation and conflict resolution. Within education, “Restorative Practices” is designed to enable schools to find alternative solutions to exclusion. This is very important work. Research demonstrates that school exclusion is the key indicator of whether a young offender will manage to get their life back on track or not.
An article about our work in this area has just been published in Every Child Journal - it is called Acting Up. Further information can be found in mediation in schools.
Alternatively, please contact us.
Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership: moral dilemmas
Posted by Glen at 3.02pm on 24 February 2010
The corporate leadership planning and change agenda within higher education presents many complex challenges for senior managers. The PSSL programme run by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education supports them to meet these challenges through a range of experiential and knowledge based interventions.
Our contribution to this programme presents participants with a moral dilemma that highlights the complex political, organisational and people management issues to do with senior level leadership. The aim is not to resolve the moral dilemma itself but to use it to understand better the experience and practice of senior level leadership in relation to sensitive situations. The interactive case study we use is carefully drawn to reflect the current key issues facing leaders in higher education. Participants find our session “inspiring on many levels” (Dr Paul Gentle, Programme Director).
For more information please contact Glen.
In the Press: FEnews
Posted by Esther at 3.30pm on 22 February 2010
A case study describing work on Cultural Diversity within Higher Education has just been published on FEnews. Please contact us for more information.
The Gender Experiment
Posted by Esther at 2.44pm on 12 February 2010
What – aside from the obvious physiological differences – makes us ‘man’ or ‘woman’? How does my gender influence my sense of identity? If I was my opposite gender, what kind of a ’man’ or ‘woman’ would I be? When a person passes me (a ‘woman’) in the street and looks at me, what are they actually seeing? And if I, instead, go out into the world as a ‘man’, what does a passer by see then?
We carried out an experiment in which 3 male actors and 2 female actors went out into the world as their opposite gender. It was part of preparatory research for a project with the police service. What happened? Find out here – The Gender Experiment