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The project ran from January 2011 until September 2011.

The project aimed to create a forum for collaboration between academics and practitioners. By enabling practitioner input on discussion topics, academics planned to harness insight, identify solutions and devise best practice. The broad objectives were to improve understanding about complexity theory, develop working tools and enable wider dissemination of findings.

This project enabled reflection on how theoretical ideas about professional practice and organisation and management in the public and voluntary sectors could be better integrated into practice. The project provided an online learning space for knowledge exchange and this was supplemented with face-to-face learning.

Practitioners enabled academics to move beyond the abstract nature of concepts and to find satisfactory working tools and methods, making it possible to identify the best methods for linking theory and practice.

A working toolkit was developed and is available here. The project members are interested in disseminating and sharing the toolkit through consultancy and training workshops. Please contact Professor Phil Haynes on P.Haynes@brighton.ac.uk for further details.