I fed the podcast into NotebookLM and asked it to do one thing:
List all the techniques Patrick Radden Keefe uses to tell captivating stories, including a clear list of do’s and don’ts and specific examples from this interview.
What came back was 20 techniques to tell captivating stories like one of the great New Yorker staff writers. The craft that usually lives inside a writer’s mind: invisible and instinctive.
Create trauma-informed content that builds trust and prevents retraumatisation—in real time
Rembrandt Editor helps you write accessible, inclusive content that works for everyone, including the 16-25% of people with disabilities. Get real-time feedback to make your writing more considerate and empathetic.
The Feedback Pyramid
In short, here are eight simple heuristics to lean on the next time you want to give feedback that works.
Speak what is True and Kind
Give specific feedback
Give feedback that is well Structured
Only give feedback that has been Invited
Tap into intrinsic motivators when giving feedback
Give feedback directly
Make feedback timely
Don’t rush the process
What's new in COM-B 2.0? 1.‘Individual-level’ COM-B is distinguished from ‘Population-level’ COM-B2.COM-B components are more precisely defined and linked to the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology (BCIO)3.COM-B components are broken down into key influences that can form the basis for a detailed diagnosis of what needs to change to influence a given behaviour in a given population and context.
Are you a development practitioner working at the project, program, or portfolio level? Are you just beginning your journey with Systems-Informed Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (Systems MEL)? You're in the right place.
This website offers practical, accessible guidance to help you layer Systems MEL approaches onto your existing MEL practices—without discarding the tools you already know and use, like Results-Based Management (RBM) or traditional evaluation frameworks.
Are you a development practitioner working at the project, program, or portfolio level? Are you just beginning your journey with Systems-Informed Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (Systems MEL)? You're in the right place.
This website offers practical, accessible guidance to help you layer Systems MEL approaches onto your existing MEL practices—without discarding the tools you already know and use, like Results-Based Management (RBM) or traditional evaluation frameworks.
In this paper we present the different steps and considerations for a qualitative evaluation of results in experimental designs. Methodological guidelines are offered for each stage of a study, from formulation of the research goals, through data collection and data analysis, to the interpretation of a potential effect of the intervention. In addition, there is ample attention for ensuring the rigor of the research. The presented guidelines are developed and illustrated using an empirical example, in which a constructivist grounded theory approach was applied to evaluate the effect of empathy prompts on the motivation to adhere to COVID-19 regulations.
What actually works in practice
Forget the academic models for a minute. Here’s what I’ve found genuinely works when creating content for vulnerable people:
Fundamentals of Inclusive Research
Presenter(s): Cherish Boxall, Heidi Green, Frances Sherratt, Shaun Treweek
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This guide provides four approaches to making research more inclusive.
Groups of people, such as those from minoritised/racialised ethnicities, impaired capacity, and those experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage, generally experience poorer health outcomes than groups of people with more societal privilege. In parallel, these groups have been historically underserved in health research. This situation means that the findings of health research might not be transferable to the people who stand to benefit most, potentially allowing health inequalities to continue and most definitely not contributing to solving the problem of inequity.
There are many historical and current reasons for under-representation in research. The most common reasons include a lack of trust and ease of access (e.g., small visit windows, cover for dependants). Although different groups might face unique barriers, this practical resource will provide a starting place to help research be more inclusive through a broad suite of approaches.
The four pillars of the fundamentals of inclusive research are access, relevance, trust and recognition.
> Download the workbook PDF with a check guide to get started on inclusive practice and community engagement.
obs-to-be-done is a great concept for innovators, helping to take the customer perspective and discovering customer insights for innovation and growth strategies. When applying JTBD in practice, however, innovators often get lost. The Job Hierarchy, developed by Vendbridgeand applied in dozens of JTBD projects, can help to maintain orientation and focus, and thereby to exploit the full potential of this powerful concept.
Die Job Hierarchie
As the word hierarchy implies, we use it to think JTBD in three different levels:
The Bigger Why
The Deeper Why
The Lower How
Intervention Mapping is the most comprehensive approach to systematic behavior change (O'Cathain et al., 2019). For this reason, applying Intervention Mapping can been daunting. In this paper, I discuss the mistakes I made when applying the various iterative steps of Intervention Mapping in the design, implementation, and evaluation of an intervention aiming to reduce HIV stigma in health care settings in the Netherlands.
This playbook gives you a system to map, diagnose, and eliminate those forces, so your change work actually changes works.
Inside this playbook, you’ll get:
-> A 4-step framework for identifying what’s blocking adoption
-> How to score and map behavioral friction
-> What most change models miss (and how to fix it)
-> Real-world strategies to turn insight into implementation
The repository of SBC capacity development resources is a user-friendly, living dashboard that brings together a curated collection of freely available resources for SBC capacity development. It includes materials from a diverse range of organizations and practices, organized into 8 areas of work, namely:
Advocate and build partnerships
Applied social and behavioral science
Capacity building
Design, plan, and implement
Digital engagement
Generate and use evidence
SBC in emergencies
Systems strengthening
This checklist is an instrument to help public health departments and communicators improve trust and communication, especially in anticipation of serious public health issues, health emergencies, and when misleading rumors are abundant. To develop the checklist, the project team collected data on frequently observed rumors during public health emergencies (PHEs), interventions to address such rumors and improve trust, and the experiences of 100 key informant public health experts and practitioners working on the front lines. The checklist reflects current communication science and the voices and lived experiences of public health communicators who have worked in an environment of persistent rumors and declining trust in public health.
The checklist provides public health communicators with tools, resources, and internal advocacy opportunities organized across 5 priority sections. These sections can be broadly described as 1) focusing on internal operations, 2) building connections with the community, 3) establishing opportunities with “secondary messengers,” 4) anticipating loss of trust in a PHE, and 5) creating meaningful and accessible messages.
Written in collaboration with the Central Evaluation Team and Public Health Wales, this is a practical and interactive tool that identifies key points to take into consideration when you’re planning how to test and evaluate your behaviour change intervention.
A practical, interactive tool that introduces Behaviour Change Techniques, considered to be the ‘active ingredients’ of behaviour change interventions. The tool walks you through how to identify and deliver Behaviour Change Techniques, drawing on the COM-B model and Behaviour Change Wheel.
A practical, online tool to walk you through the essential considerations to understanding and influencing behaviours that may be at play in your better-health issue.
A practical, interactive tool to help you consider and define your target behaviour and target population, as you create a ‘behavioural specification’.
