This session of ACF Evidence & Learning network will be exploring Human Learning Systems in a funding context which have placed learning at the centre of social change. Human Learning Systems have been defined as “an alternative approach to public management which embraces the complexity of the real world, and enables us to work effectively in that complexity”. The session will include an oversight of the philosophy underpinning Human Learning Systems; what it actually looks like in practice, how it is implemented; and experiences of those who’ve utilised it.
Toby Lowe (Centre for Public Impact) will provide an oversight of the philosophy underpinning HLSs, and then to understand what HLSs are like in practice Annie Salter (Tudor Trust) and Sam Kammerling (Likewise) will discuss how HLSs can look and feel like at a funder and a charity, and the relationship between the two.
Speakers:
Toby Lowe, Visiting Professor in Public Management, Centre for Public Impact
Annie Salter, Learning and Communications Manager, Tudor Trust
Sam Kammerling, Learning, Research and Evaluation Lead, Likewise
Convenors:
Richard Graham, Director of the Barnardo’s Foundation
Richard Graham is currently the Director of the Barnardo’s Foundation. Prior to that he was the Director of the Education Partnerships Group and Head of Education at Save the Children. He spent 20 years at Comic Relief leading its international grants programme and has also spent a number of years living and working for non-profits in in Egypt, Sudan and Afghanistan. He is a governor at Thomas Tallis Secondary School with a focus on learning and achievement and volunteers as a youth leader at the Woodcraft Folk. Richard lives in southeast London with his wife and two daughters. He has a grown-up son living in east London and is writing his first novel for children.
Andy Curtis, Research and Evaluation Manager, Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Andy has twenty years of research experience in the education and charity sectors. He is Research and Evaluation Manager at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Andy completed his PhD at the University of Southampton in 2007 and his thesis explored the relationship between social capital and civic engagement, including the vital role of charities and volunteering. He then conducted various research looking at communities and volunteering in his posts at the Institute for Volunteering Research (based in NCVO) and Local Trust.
Date: 12 July 2022
Time: 10am - 11.30am
This event will take place online. A Zoom link will be sent 48 hours before.
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Please note that this event might contain discussions of sensitive topics or information.