Where the evidence and the practice have come apart
Written by the practitioners doing the work. Longer than a post, shorter than a paper, and generally about something we have argued about internally first.
Why the annual engagement survey keeps failing the audit test
An engagement survey and a psychosocial risk assessment look similar from the outside. Under a regulator's questions they behave very differently, and the difference is not the questions.
Demands and resources: the model that outlasted the wellbeing industry
Four decades of workplace psychology keep returning to the same balance. It is unglamorous, it is well evidenced, and it explains why most wellbeing spending does not move anything.
Designed to be funded is a design decision, not a writing decision
Most unsuccessful applications are not badly written. They are competently written accounts of a program that was never made legible to a funder.
The translation problem: why good evidence dies on the way to the frontline
The gap between what the literature supports and what a support worker does on shift is a design gap, not a knowledge gap.
Supervisors are the entire psychosocial control system on most sites
On a construction site or in a dispersed operation, almost every control you can name runs through one layer. Train accordingly.
New writing, when there is something worth saying
Roughly monthly. Psychosocial risk, program design and funding. No newsletter template, no round ups.