The Advocacy Iceberg: Recent Episodes
Jim Coe
Podcast about campaigning and advocacy - going under the surface to explore how social and political change happens and the ways advocacy can contribute to it. Interview based, with a different theme each podcast. Hosted by Jim Coe.
Ep 39 – Sarah Stachowiak, Anne Gienapp and Nikki Kalra from ORS Impact talk about their latest report, looking at the over-use and mis-use of movement language, why this is a problem and what large scale social change strategies it might make more sense to be thinking about Report is here, along with the some stand-alone […]
Ep 38 – Tatiana Gavarito talks about how reparative justice underpins her activism. This is the crowdfunder for Apoyo Comunitario that we talk about. Tatiana is also involved in creating this funding pool to support individuals and communities working towards racial justice.
Lee Webster talks about feminist leadership. We look at ActionAid’s journey towards implementing feminist leadership principles across the global federation – and what it means for culture and behaviours as well as for programmes and campaigns. There’s more about how ActionAid UK is practising feminism and the feminist behaviours framework here
Ep 36 Peter Macfadyen talks about Independents for Frome and their experience as a collective of independents running the local town council, trying to do local politics differently. We talk about their approach, what they learnt along the way, and how others might build, and are building, on their experiences
Ep 35 – Anthea Lawson from Perspectiva discusses how we should see activism as sitting within what it is trying to change, and how this creates all kinds of entanglements for activists to navigate. We focus on how activists and ‘non-activists’ interact, and what that reveals, and some of the ways it might go better. […]
Ep 34 – Natasha Adams talks about social movements, the different actors involved in them and what kinds of strategies make sense in the current climate of uncertainty. In that context, we talk about how social movements can understand and address hegemonic power. More from Natasha on this and other subjects at thinkingdoingchanging.com
Ep 33 – Stephanie Leonard from Act Build Change talks about community organising theory and practice, from Saul Alinsky to Rules for Revolutionaries, via Jane McAlevey and Bob Moses (and some others).
Ep 32 – Habiba Nabatu talks about the ‘NGOs Reimagined’ initiative, which is calling on international NGOs to tackle the ecological, economic and social crises that we face holistically and in ways that take into account history and power.
Ali Goldsworthy, the founder and CEO of the Depolarization Project, talks about polarisation in society and why and how we might think more about depolarising, and the role that campaigning and communications does and could play. More about the Depolarization Project here Home
Ep 30 – Rhonda Schlangen talks about a paper we have written together and has just been published: No Royal Road. It explores the tension at the heart of advocacy, and advocacy evaluation, between wanting clear answers and the inherent uncertainties around how social and political change really happens. Recognising this tension, we set out […]
Ep 29 – Tom Pollard talks about his recent paper ‘Pathways from Poverty: A case for institutional reform’ based on his experiences of being seconded to the Department for Work and Pensions [DWP]. He asks and answers the question, ‘is the DWP capable of delivering against its goals?’ (Spoiler = no.) We discuss his findings, […]
Ep 27 – Jonathan Ellis talks about the importance of passion and purpose in campaigning
Ep 26 – Sue Tibballs from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation talks about their recent report, Social Power, which looks at how civil society can be most effective in creating change
Ep 25 – Joe Hall talks about the the findings so far from the Civil Society Futures inquiry – as summarised in their recent report, ‘The Story Of Our Times: Power In Our Hands?’
Ep 24 – Jinan Younis talks about the Lost Voices report, recently published by the Social Change Agency, which looks at how and how well digital campaigning supports the voices of people with lived experience to be heard by decision makers and in public debates – and how it could be done better.
Ep 23 – Elena Blackmore from PIRC [publicinterest.org.uk] talks about framing and the ‘Framing Equality’ toolkit
Ep 22 – Shilpa Shah talks about power and privilege More about Shilpa at Shilpa-shah.com
Ep 21 Sarah Rose talks about developing an approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning across the advocacy and campaigning programme at Save the Children International, and the challenges in balancing the need for rigour and the importance of it being practical and useful.
Ep 20 – Matt Price talks about his book Engagement Organizing, and organising approaches and strategies more generally
Ep 19 – Alice Sachrajda talks about the role of popular culture in catalysing social change
Ep 18 – Sondhya Gupta talks about new feminist organisation Level Up – setting it up and its goals and strategy
Ep 17 – Michaela O’Brien and Anastasia Kavada who run the MA course in Media Campaigning and Social Change at the University of Westminster talk about power, and Steven Lukes’ concepts of visible, hidden and invisible power more about the course here: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/journalism-and-mass-communication-courses/2018-19/september/full-time/media-campaigning-and-social-change-ma?next-year=1
Ep 16 – Sarah Corbett talks about craftivism and her new book ‘How to be a Craftivist: The Art of Gentle Protest’
Ep 15 – Eiri Ohtani from the Detention Forum talks about the campaign to challenge the UK’s approach to immigration detention, and the strategies and approaches the Detention Forum network has developed to tackle this difficult policy area.
Ep 14 – Madeline Church talks about Saferworld’s approach to monitoring and evaluation influencing work, how (and why) a new approach was developed and implemented, and how it’s going There’s more about this here: http://www.saferworld.org.uk/oldsite/resources/view-resource/1027-doing-things-differently-rethinking-monitoring-and-evaluation-to-understand-change
Ep 13 – Nick Martlew from Crisis Action and author of the Creative Coalitions handbook, talks about principles and practice for effective coalition working
Ep 12 – Dave Karpf talks about his book, Analytic Activism, and how digital listening is being, and could be, used as a tool to support decision making
Ep 11 – Tom Liacas talks about directed network campaigns, their features and what makes them effective, drawing on the ‘Networked Change’ report he co-wrote last year
Ep 10 – An interview with Hahrie Han, author of How Organizations Develop Activists. Hahrie talks about the mobilising vs organising model that she sets out in the book and also some of her more recent thinking about how organisations maximise their strategic effectiveness in a changing world.
Ep 9 – Disrupting the sector – interview with Johnny Chatterton, Executive Director of Campaign Bootcamp, who talks about past initiatives and current plans for expanding Bootcamp, and how as a sector we should respond to what’s going on around us
Ep 8 – Theories of change – interview with Jenny Ross about theories of change and what’s good about them, & also possible ways they might be less good Jenny’s presentation for Bond is here: https://www.bond.org.uk/resources/theory-of-change-for-advocacy-and-campaigns Jenny is on twitter @jennyross101
Ep 7: Interview with Jess Day, talking about the Let Toys Be Toys campaign @day_jess @LetToysBeToys More about the tweet Jess talks about here You can subscribe to the Advocacy Iceberg podcast, if you want to, on iTunes, or follow it on soundcloud
Ep 6 Surviving the Storm. Interview with Patrick Olszowski about the challenges the voluntary sector is facing, and how to respond. Patrick’s website is here and he’s on twitter as @civility1 The IDEO toolkit Patrick mentions is here
Episode 5 – An interview with Anna Macdonald and Oliver Sprague, about the campaign to secure a global Arms Trade Treaty. You can subscribe to the Advocacy Iceberg podcast, if you want to, on iTunes, or follow it on soundcloud
Episode 4: Leadership in campaigning. Interview with Tom Baker, discussing aspects of leadership, in campaigns and coalitions, and organisational and sector leadership. Tom’s blog is here, on twitter he’s @mrtombaker You can subscribe to the podcast, if you want to, on iTunes, or follow it on soundcloud
Episode 3: Email campaigning. Interview with Esther Foreman, Director of the Social Change Agency, about email campaigning targeted at politicians. This draws on Esther’s past research: Peering In and Shouting Down The House You can subscribe to the podcast, if you want to, on iTunes, or follow it on soundcloud
Episode 2: Social movements. Interview with Natasha Adams about social movements and how they differ from, but can interlock with, campaigns.
Pilot episode: Interview with Rhonda Schlangen, co author (with me) of The Value Iceberg, a discussion piece about how the important elements of advocacy tend to be intangible, under the surface, difficult to see, and how this affects how advocacy is seen and valued.