How Narrative Analysis Can Help To Improve Service Delivery In Healthcare
by Tony Quinlan on Oct 11, 2024 10:00:00 AM
The healthcare sector is on a continuous journey of improvement. For senior managers to understand how to enhance patient care and treatment outcomes, they need access and the ability to make sense of up-to-date and comprehensive information. However, traditional data collection metho …
Promoting Organisational Development: The Impact Of Narrative Research
by Tony Quinlan on Sep 29, 2024 10:00:00 AM
Faced with a challenging economic landscape, many businesses seek ways to adapt, grow, and thrive. However, it’s difficult to do so without good, actionable information from key stakeholders. Narrative research has emerged as a powerful way to obtain and explore the stories and experi …
Narrate at the UN Data Literacy workshop, November 2018
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 16, 2018 5:07:18 PM
Our CEO and Chief Storyteller, Tony Quinlan, spoke on Thursday 15th November 2018 at the Bangkok workshop on UN Data Literacy. Talking about using ethnography in-field, he discussed projects we’ve undertaken with Cognitive Edge’s SenseMaker tools. His slides from the conference are do …
Using SenseMaker to understand girls' lives
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 19, 2018 6:02:08 PM
The Girl Hub SenseMaker® case study explores the use of SenseMaker®, an innovative, narrative-based research methodology, to gather girl-centered evidence in Rwanda and Ethiopia. This approach enables large-scale story collection and analysis to identify social patterns, behaviors, an …
SenseMaker contours of narrative - how a culture might evolve, where a culture won't shift
by Tony Quinlan on Oct 12, 2017 9:20:03 AM
Moving cultural beliefs and patterns is tough - the way that people behave generates micro-narratives and stories that then inform (constrain) how other people behave. Feedback loops and patterns that can strengthen over time, making change seem impossible*. In our work with SenseMake …
Complexity, micro-narratives and SenseMaker®. Tony Quinlan's talk from the UN Data Innovation Lab , Nairobi: March 2017
by Tony Quinlan on Jul 13, 2017 12:34:55 PM
It's a couple of months ago now, but Narrate's Chief Storyteller, Tony Quinlan, was invited to talk at the fourth UN Data Innovation Learning Lab event, held in Nairobi, Kenya in March 2017. The event focused on "making data meaningful and making the invisible visible".
Nudging people towards latrines
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 7, 2016 9:30:29 PM
Nice article today on the WorldBank and its behavioural change aims - my favourite piece was this:
StratCom presentation slides - Partnership for Peace, 26th March 2015
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 30, 2015 7:22:18 PM
As promised, here are the slides from last week's presentation at the Partnership for Peace base in Ankara. The usual caveats apply - I'm not sure how much sense these make without my discussion over the top...
Getting familiar with SenseMaker®
by Tony Quinlan on Feb 25, 2015 12:38:57 PM
If you're thinking about running a project exploring complex issues like culture, there's another chance to kick start a project with the SenseMaker® trainings in Seattle from 11-13th March 2015. As many people know, I've been using SenseMaker® software to understand populations and d …
Catching up - Learning From Incidents slides
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 5, 2014 10:52:18 AM
It's been an "interesting" few weeks at breakneck pace, so I'm a bit behind in putting things up. So, catching up bit by bit - here are the slides from the ESRC Learning From Incidents seminar at Southampton University on 15th October, along with some reflections from the morning.