Power, Care and Voice is a stream of RadHR work which is trying to figure out:
- How RadHR can be most useful to different kinds of groups and organisations that are, for a variety of reasons, less likely to feel supported by what we currently do (the policy library, the community forum, and our events).
- How to bring to the fore – and support peer learning around – ways of centring care and shifting power which are less visible, harder to share in a document and happening in groups which might not seem ‘radical’ from the outside.
We’re currently running two action research projects to help us do this:
RESEARCH PROJECT
Power & Voice in Worker Co-ops
Living the cooperative principle of democratic member control
We’re carrying out this project with our partners at People Support Co-op. The central themes of the research are “being heard” in worker co-ops and how power is understood and shared within them.
Find out more!
RESEARCH PROJECT
Beyond
Policies
Exploring everyday practices of creating collective care
This project is about supporting and learning from informal, feminised practices of collective care in ‘frontline’ groups.
As part of these projects, we are trying to adapt our ways of working (for instance in terms of how we make decisions and share resources) to what might suit the groups we’re working with. We’re hoping the learning from these projects will feed back into and help shape RadHR’s work in the future, both externally and internally.
WE’D LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU!
We’ve just launched our Beyond Policies survey for the first phase of the project!
At this early stage, the most important thing is that we hear from you. We want to know if we’re on the right track—does this project make sense? What kinds of ‘collective care’ are you and your group engaging in or thinking about? And how could this project support these? We’re hoping your answers to this survey will help inform how the project develops—we have a few ideas around potential collective mentoring sessions or perhaps co-designing some shareable resources, but we really want to leave it up to those participating.
So if you or someone you know is working in ways that are about looking after each other, but perhaps not written down, please fill the survey out!