How can practice theory be used to effect social change? That was an underlying question for the New Practices for New Publics workshop today, with a focus on how far practice theory can usefully inform processes of policy making and governing to effect positive social change. Appropriately, the project team was well represented there, with Matt Watson and David Evans providing two of the talks, along with Margit Keller (Turku). Others at the workshop wrote down questions at the end of each presentation, which provided the basis for a panel discussion, with Margit, David and Matt fielding some testing questions. In the interest and debate in the potential for practice theory to inform policy processes, the workshop demonstrated the salience of the ambitions of this project.
The workshop was the fourth in an ESRC funded series of events designed to bring together cutting edge thinking in social science with the experiences of civil society organisations, especially those in the community and voluntary sector.
Change Points 