Thought leadership
The Raffles Review of our ‘Anatomy of Collaboration’
'The Anatomy of Collaboration' is a new report from Collaborate in partnership with Oxford University’s Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice and London South Bank University. The report sets out the key facets of successful collaboration.
The Anatomy of Collaboration
'The Anatomy of Collaboration' is a new report from Collaborate in partnership with Oxford University’s Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice and London South Bank University. The report sets out the key facets of successful collaboration.
Collaboration Readiness: Why it matters, how to build it, and where to start
This new publication offers a practical guide to collaboration readiness, drawn from our practice across the UK and beyond. We believe there's no transformation without collaboration and no collaboration without readiness: this report helps you to take a step back and consider six different aspects of collaboration and provides a shallow route into building readiness in each.
Collaborate partners with TSIP to call for a Collaboration Evidence Hub
Collaborate and The Social Innovation Partnership launch a new paper, 'Collaboration: from emerging science to evidence base', that calls for the creation of a Collaboration Evidence Hub (CEH) - a new resource for practitioners, professionals, policy-makers, and the public that offers a systematic way of building and understanding evidence.
The Collaborative Citizen, 2nd edition
As part of the Unusual Suspects Festival, we launched the 2nd edition of The Collaborative Citizen, which signals a movement to mobilise the engaged citizen in the delivery of quality public services. This exciting report follows the successful launch of the 1st edition in partnership with Ipsos MORI earlier this year.
The Future of Public Services
The Future of Public Services presents a summary of round-table events held in partnership between Collaborate, RSA 2020 Public Services, and the ESRC in 2013.
The Collaborative Citizen, 1st edition
In partnership with Ipsos MORI, The Collaborative Citizen makes a major contribution to the public services debate by arguing and evidencing the need to include citizens in the delivery of quality public services.
Blog posts
Awkward bedfellows and slippery concepts a.k.a. How to lead social change
Our Director Dr Henry Kippin writes for the Clore Social Leadership programme on the challenges of leading social change in the 21st century.
Moving from the margins: the challenges of building integrated local services – a discussion paper by Collaborate and Turning Point
Moving from the margins is a discussion paper produced by Collaborate and Turning Point that presents seven key insights for building integrated public services.
The Collaborative University: connecting people, place and policy
In her latest blog, Collaborate's Adelaide Adade argues the case for a model of higher education that moves beyond intent in the sector to practical routes to change.
Insights on infrastructure for place-based system change
We are just over half-way through our research project on the infrastructure for place-based system change. This blog piece shares insights from this work so far, setting out why systems change is relevant to public services now, the role of infrastructure in supporting it and our draft infrastructure framework, which includes components such as place-based strategies, accountability, governance and data.
The Raffles Review of our ‘Anatomy of Collaboration’
'The Anatomy of Collaboration' is a new report from Collaborate in partnership with Oxford University’s Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice and London South Bank University. The report sets out the key facets of successful collaboration.
Understanding Systems Infrastructure
Following on from our Behaving like a System report last year, Anna Randle sets out the focus of the next stage of our research on ‘system infrastructure’
The Anatomy of Collaboration
'The Anatomy of Collaboration' is a new report from Collaborate in partnership with Oxford University’s Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice and London South Bank University. The report sets out the key facets of successful collaboration.
Helping Europe’s Social Funders to Collaborate
Last month Collaborate, along with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the IKEA Foundation and Big Lottery Fund, presented the Funding Ecology concept and the complimentary mapping technique at the European Foundation Centre’s annual conference. The session encouraged independent funders from across Europe to consider their role and value within a funding ecosystem, and provided examples of how mapping could support this process of awareness. See here for a more detailed review.
Why demand management matters to Europe’s cities. The best idea you’ve never heard of
Henry Kippin writes for URBACT on why demand management will become fundamental to the sustainability of cities.
Wanted: Collaboration that Gets Things Done
Collaborate director Henry Kippin responds to recent arguments that collaboration is a trend whose time has come and gone.