Our work so far suggests that thousands of people across the UK are transforming lives through offering ‘good help’. But too …
Read this articleOn 6 th February 2018 we are launching the ‘Good and Bad Help’ publication with Nesta. This marks the start of …
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In the wake of tragedies, we rightly point to acts of kindness offered to the victims, be it blankets, cash or …
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“Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure,” wrote Albert Bandura in his 1997 magnum opus ‘Self-efficacy: The …
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In case you haven’t noticed, some people have got very excited about the possibility of self-management transforming our public services. Well, …
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Why we at Osca are focussing on self-efficacy in public services in 2017 As I stepped out of the cinema last …
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At Osca we’ve been thinking a lot about self-efficacy, but what does it mean and how is it useful? We’ve given …
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In 2017 we are exploring the potential for public services to become engines of self-efficacy to drive significant improvements in service …
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I’m leaving Osca at an interesting time. It looks as if we might be in a curious moment of shift in …
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Not all research is equally important to social programmes. This isn’t only a matter of the standard of evidence, but of …
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