Values driven, skilled innovator & collaborator, development mgr @CircleScot 4 @thepromisescot, co-creator @yearofthedad & passionate about ve male role models
🏛️ What if one of the most important democratic reforms of the next decade is a better way for parliaments to work? Our new report explores options for embedding mini-publics within UK legislatures.
📘 Report👉carnegieuk.org/publication/b…
📅 Webinar 23 June👉 carnegieuk-org.zoom.us/webin…
ALT image of the report cover, including the logo: Collective Wellbeing Carnegie UK, and the report title: Blueprints for Democratic Wellbeing: Strengthening UK Parliaments with Citizen Deliberation
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🆕 Fully funded PhD scholarship by Scottish charity Men Matter Scotland:
Social inequality and male suicide: Risk factors and interventions
Supervised by Dr Susie Bennett and myself
Closing date: 11th June 2025, with an autumn 2025 start. Open to UK students only.
🔗 findaphd.com/phds/project/so…
Play the Old Course for £42.50...
St Andrews Links Trust is delighted to announce The Drive initiative, a new way to widen access to the Home of Golf.
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Becoming a dad is a big deal — so it’s totally normal to feel a bit overwhelmed.
Our new guide offers simple tips to help you manage stress and take care of yourself throughout your journey into fatherhood!
You're doing great—read more here👇 fathersnetwork.org.uk/how_to…
New research has found that new dads feel 'ridiculously unprepared' and like 'passenger parents,' juggling work, guilt, and changing relationships
Read more ⬇️
phys.org/news/2025-02-dads-r…
ALT In this Newsletter:
AI for Digital Democracy: How to Navigate Opportunities and Threats
Win-Win Workout: AI and Copyright – Avoiding the Zero-Sum Game
KNOCA Workshop: What Goes Wrong with Assemblies
Save the Date: Training on Citizen Engagement in Policymaking
Young Citizens’ Assembly on Pollinators
Crowdfunding Campaign for the Launching of ‘Murder in the Climate Assembly’
Article: Learning from Practice – Expanding the OECD’s Impact Evaluation Criteria Based on Experiences of Subnational Climate Assemblies
ICYMI - Reviving the Commons? A Scoping Review of Urban and Digital Commoning
About the Citizen Participation Network
🌟 Dads in Levenmouth! 🌟
Woodlands Family Nurture Centre has a fantastic free weekly Dad Group, where dads with children aged 0 to 5 can relax, chat, and enjoy a cup of tea.
📍 Woodlands Family Nurture Centre
🗓️ Tuesdays, 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Useful research here on what contributes to good men's mental health.
It's not about blaming men and trying to fix them! academic.oup.com/heapro/arti…
"Embedding interventions within the communities of men being engaged, fully involving these men, and holding ‘male-positive’ values engendered familiarity and consolidated trust. Using ‘male-sensitive’ language and activity-based approaches allowed for positive expressions of emotions..."
First Minister @JohnSwinney joined leaders at the Children’s Sector Strategic and Policy Forum chaired by @ChildreninScot.
They shared ideas about the best ways to:
🔵eradicate child poverty and support families
🔵ensure children and young people can fully access their rights
ALT First Minister John Swinney and Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise Natalie Don-Innes at a meeting of Children in Scotland’s Children’s Sector Strategic and Policy Forum.
ALT First Minister John Swinney and Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise Natalie Don-Innes at a meeting of Children in Scotland’s Children’s Sector Strategic and Policy Forum.
Great to bring together the Children's Sector Strategic and Policy Forum with @ScotGovFM and @NatalieDon_ to talk about embedding children's rights, policy coherence, the importance of a well resourced third sector and what we can do differently to eradicate child poverty.
Next hearing from Rebekah Cheung @White_Ribbon_UK.
Preventing gender based violence is a shared responsibility. White Ribbon have been engaging with MSPs during #16days.
'Dont commit, condone or remain silent in the face of VAWG'.
Silence can no longer be an option.
Following #16days, NASUWT is @ScotParl with @ZTScotland talking about men's role in ending violence against women.
Opening address by @BenMacpherson recognising the importance of having this conversation.