At work:
- Sifting through the materials for the schools programme evaluation. This will be ongoing for several weeks, there’s a lot to process!
- Planned an upcoming advisory session on evaluating co-production: not just the result and impact (the what) but also the co-productive practice (the how). I made a Miro digital whiteboard template to support the session.
- Started reading the background documents for the EDI strategy session, but didn’t get far because meetings! Will resume next week.
- No reading post this week, I’ve been out and about instead. There may not be one *next* week as I’m off to the Eisteddfod at the weekend, so my Sunday evening will be atypical! Normal service will resume shortly.
Deliverables this week:
- A light-touch interim report for the schools programme evaluation – just headline themes. More analysis to follow, and a few more research interviews, before I compile the full report.
- Ongoing mentoring sessions with health board senior managers around co-production and innovation.
Development this week:
- Proposal for creative engagement around social care in one local authority has been confirmed, did the inception and set-up meeting. Will have a mapping session with the team in the next couple of weeks to get the ball rolling properly.
At home:
- The deadline to return the wildlife camera meant I got myself into gear and captured one night of movements, confirming that the foxes and one very round hedgehog are indeed visiting the feeding station. Success!
- Had a day off and went to see the Ospreys at the Dyfi Wildlife Centre. Their new visitor centre is beautiful (if you go, look at the craftsmanship on the wooden staircase, and the penny floor map upstairs). Saw the mother and two of the young ospreys – in flight, and perching in and near the nest.
- Did a weekend workshop at the Braeval Street Community Darkroom to relearn how to develop B&W film and print a contact sheet. I’d learnt in uni and had forgotten everything! Next time (in a fortnight), printing photos.
- Watching Hidden on iPlayer (Craith is the Welsh version on S4C) and managing to more or less follow the Welsh dialogues, helped along by the subtitles. (Does this count as Welsh pratice??) The storylines are chilling but I can’t stop watching.
- Reading Pagans by James Alistair Henry, for a bit of light relief. I do like a murder mystery, and this one is set in a 21st century British Isle that never saw the Norman conquest, where ancient tribes co-exist uneasily. Enjoying the world building, where social media and streaming meet Saxon tribal tattoos and Celtic torcs.
Image credit: Dyfi Osprey Project