Resilience and Transformation

On The Atlantic Edge: Scotland's islands and the opening of a world
Graham Leicester

Our guest at Ramsay Garden earlier this month was Norman (Norrie) Bissell, poet, teacher, screenwriter, activist, champion of the new...

Step Aside Sir Humphrey: 10 Characteristics of Transformative Innovation
Graham Leicester

We British have a long tradition of poking gentle fun at our capacity to go through the motions of change...

Transforming Education: Three Horizons Shows The Way
Graham Leicester

TheCommission on Education Reformin Scotland concluded last summer that reform is easy to envision but almost impossible to deliver. Keir Bloomer,...

Violence, Hopelessness, Alienation – and the need for Redemption
Graham Leicester

Our speaker at Ramsay Garden this month was Karyn McCluskey, one of the renowned founders of Strathclyde Police’s Violence Reduction...

We Can Eradicate Extreme Poverty - but what about inequality?
Graham Leicester

I was in Prague last week for the annual Forum2000 conference – originally established by President Vaclav Havel to encourage...

Iona Heath: Restoring Humanity to Public Service
Graham Leicester

It has been quite a summer here in the UK for two of my favourite things: hope and inspiration. They were...

David MacKay on Scotland's Energy Futures
Graham Leicester

Professor David MacKay, Department of Physics at Cambridge University, came to prominence in 2009 following the publication of his book Sustainable...

Sara Parkin: leadership for sustainability in a perverse world
Graham Leicester

Our guest at Ramsay Garden, Edinburgh this month was Sara Parkin, one time Green Party political activist, founder with Jonathon Porritt...

Resilience: plan for anything, don’t plan for everything
Graham Leicester

‘We are now in the recrimination phase‘.  That’s how the British Medical Journal describes growing public scrutiny of...

The Uses of Apocalypse
Graham Leicester

I have been thinking recently about the rise and rise of the apocalypse narrative in how we talk about the way the world is going. It has been a potent theme in the run up to Copenhagen - the so called ‘dark green’ narrative.

Disorganisation: making the most of ‘order for free’
Graham Leicester

I was recently involved in running a remarkable meeting with a group of senior people from a particular region of...

Pandemic flu response: insights from the IFF world game
Graham Leicester

A group recently gathered at The Boathouse to play the IFF World Game.  The game is based on a ‘world model’ with 12...

Resilience and Transformation: making the most of a crisis
Graham Leicester

The threat of pandemic, coming on top of the global financial and economic crisis, has set me thinking afresh about...