Published in Insight and Improvement at British Red Cross·PinnedRapidly exploring future humanitarian impacts of the Ukraine conflictLife, they say, is just one damned thing after another. And we seem to have had an unusual number of damned things recently. Everyone’s tired. Two years of huge emergency after huge emergency — from the Covid-19 pandemic’s various variants to evacuations from Afghanistan and a series of storms battering…Ukraine4 min read
Published in Insight and Improvement at British Red Cross·1 day agoDesigning an insight service with the Emergencies PartnershipWorking well together and having a solid, shared understanding of what’s going on is vital when responding to emergencies. The Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership (or VCSEP) helps large, national organisations and smaller, more localised organisations to collaborate and coordinate — and in the early days of the pandemic…Service Design4 min read
Published in Insight and Improvement at British Red Cross·May 19Anthropology offers a strangely familiar approach to understanding decisionsAround nine years ago, I was told the secret to making good decisions. “You must go and tell David Cameron,” the reindeer herder urged me, seemingly assuming all Brits had direct access to our then-Prime Minister. Sunlight pierced the net curtains in his cabin, but that didn’t mean anything —…Anthropology5 min read
Published in Insight and Improvement at British Red Cross·Apr 11Thinking in publicHumans produce incomprehensible amounts of data and information all the time. If the amount of data produced in a single day were a film, it’d take two million years to watch. That’s a two-million-year-long video, every day. It’s the length of two trillion Harry Potter books. To call this a…Decision Making2 min read
