Most Significant Change part 2 - A deep dive with Nick Andrews

Imogen and Nick Andrews explore the Most Significant Change methodology in depth, discussing story collection, editing, and the transformative power of narrative evaluation in social care and beyond.

Nick Andrews is based at the University of Swansea:
He delivers the DEEP project, funded by Social Care Wales: https://insightcollective.socialcare....

Further resources from DEEP on MSC:

A Storytelling Framework for Social Care in Wales: https://insightcollective.socialcare....

MSC blog: https://insightcollective.socialcare....

MSC film:    • Gwneud y mwyaf o Newid Mwyaf Arwyddocaol /...  

Discussed in the podcast:

Rick Davies and Jess Dart: The Most Significant Change Technique - a guide to its use: https://mande.co.uk/wp-content/upload...

Neil Mercer on Oracy/ Exploratory Talk: https://oracycambridge.org/talk-rules/

Glen Robert: Experience-based Co-production:    • Glenn Robert: An experience-based co-desig...  

Rupert Higham on Dialogue Learning: https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2158639/

Anne Edwards on Common Knowledge: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/person...

Iain McGilchrist: The Matter with Things, podcast with Rebel Wisdom:    • The Matter With Things, Iain McGilchrist  

ChangeTalk Podcast on Deep Democracy:    • Paul Connery on Deep Democracy  

Imogen Blood for Joseph Rowntree Foundation - A Better Life: Valuing our Later Years: https://www.housinglin.org.uk/_assets...

Imogen runs a social research consultancy Imogen Blood & Associates:
https://www.imogenblood.co.uk/
She also provides MSC training:
https://www.seralliance.org/


Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
1:22 - What is MSC?
3:18 - How to collect stories
9:04 - Neither life story nor case study
12:35 - What caused the change?
15:46 - Titles, editing, individuals v groups
20:22 - Panels: story selection
26:27 - When and why to use MSC?
38:48 - Limitations/ health warnings
45:45 - How to argue nicely
57:00 - MSC process creates change
01:10:00 - How we met/ Nick's work