John Hitchin

That's very beautiful. I loved this line: "And the most I can ever really know of the past is what has been, not what might have." It is a blessing to me to think in this way, but there is a loss there too.

Future trends in evidence The landscape of evidence is changing as we write

And we're up to a look at the future landscape of evidence: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/future-tre...

Patterns of evidence use in place-based work The evidence use supports the categories

That's given us some patterns of evidence use: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/patterns-o... and some observations about that evidence across our categories: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/observatio...

Strengths and weaknesses of the classification Is this useful? Is this good?

And some reasons to think that there's value in this approach placeandevidence.substack.com/p/strengths-...

A working classification of place-based change Mapping the categories

With a new map of practice: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/a-working-...

Continuous local social change A category of place-based work

And developed five categories: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/continuous..., placeandevidence.substack.com/p/civil-soci..., placeandevidence.substack.com/p/state-and-..., placeandevidence.substack.com/p/market-int..., placeandevidence.substack.com/p/rebalancin...

Why are existing definitions of place-based working so unhelpful for evidence? Descriptions aren’t definitional

We've then looked at the definition: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/why-are-ex...

What does the literature tell us about what’s particular about PBW in the UK? Lagging, but with an opportunity

And what that tells us about practice in the UK: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/what-does-...

What’s the evidence problem? An impasse

And how that manifests itself in evidence: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

Place-based working in the UK A flightless bird

In the Substack we walk through how we've thought differently about the problem placeandevidence.substack.com/p/place-base...

I'd love to get any reflections on this work and our approach to the field of practice

Place and Evidence | Michael Little | Substack This work is produced by Ratio, Stories of Change and Place Matters. Click to read Place and Evidence, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Keen to share some work that I've been doing with Anna Waldie and Michael Little for Place Matters. We've been developing some research into the evidence that supports place based work, and in doing so we've thought very differently about what that place-based work is placeandevidence.substack.com

If you're working in evaluation and learning, and want to better connect that work to your organisation’s strategy and decision-making, join me and @johnhitchin.bsky.social next Thursday for a conversation on insight, impact, and influence.
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