May 14, 2021No more delay: We need an Employment Bill fit for the COVID-eraThe long-awaited Employment Bill was notable by its absence in this week’s Queen’s Speech, which sets out the UK Government’s legislative programme for the year ahead. This omission has provoked dismay and concern among many employer and worker representative bodies, charities and employment experts…5 min read
Apr 20, 2021Responsible Investment in Tech: how can we ensure productivity-boosting tech enhances job quality?Workplace technologies have the potential to both improve the contribution that work makes to wellbeing and to threaten it. At the Carnegie UK Trust, through our Fulfilling Work and Digital Futures themes of policy and development, we put have put energies over the past…3 min read
Jan 29, 2021Community Ownership, Recovery and Empowerment“ Sustainable Change requires a focus on land, law and power”, Carey Doyle Community Land Scotland. I was lucky enough to chair a panel discussion on Community Ownership and Towns this week, with Community Land Scotland, Greener Kirkcaldy, Power to…3 min read
Jan 27, 2021Local Innovations to solve the problems that matterThe COVID-19 pandemic, with its many challenges has tested our ability to innovate. Many of us associate the idea of innovation with bright, new objects or processes, and this could include the game-changing COVID-19 vaccine created by scientists at Oxford…3 min read
Jan 25, 2021Introducing GDWe: an alternative measure of social progressThe pandemic has brought about many changes to our lives, but one of the less remarked upon elements has been the sudden interest in…3 min read
Jan 25, 2021What’s next for wellbeing? The journey to Carnegie UK’s new strategy“…by such means as the Trustees may from time to time select as the best fitted from age to age, remembering that new needs are constantly…6 min read
Dec 9, 2020Engaging Libraries Top Tips for Digital EngagementThe Engaging Libraries programme, delivered by Carnegie UK Trust, supports library services across the UK to run public engagement activities on research within the themes of health, society and culture. Today the Trust published a new digital learning leaflet, sharing what has been gleaned from the delivery of two public…3 min read
Nov 30, 2020The Power of PartnershipI remember, when I tried rowing, every outing we were told to work together to balance the boat. Finding balance, getting rid of the…4 min read
Oct 15, 2020Learning from lockdown: 12 steps to eliminate digital exclusionIt is time to act on digital exclusion. Since the outbreak of Covid-19, the scale of digital exclusion in the UK has been exposed and exacerbated beyond previous understanding. In response, new initiatives have been rapidly developed and delivered. These new initiatives have substantially accelerated progress towards ensuring that those…7 min read
