Lankelly Chase’s Knowledge Action Inquiry Brief for new partnerships

So what are we after? Building on the above, we are interested in people, organisations, institutions and initiatives who are approaching knowledge in a different way: particularly on the themes of ownership, value and connection, and especially in line with our system behaviours. [...] Our areas of focus are: • Modelling principles of participation, democracy and equity in the creation, interpretation and use of knowledge • Collective sense-making and the involvement of multiple partial perspectives, particularly at community level • Working across and/or challenging academic and evidential hierarchies, including equalising the relationship of power and prestige between clinical. [...] Why do we want these things? The approaches above map directly onto the wider ‘change we want to see’1, including: - Intervening on the ‘mindset’ level: helping to reveal, question and renew the written and unwritten rules and assumptions that govern how we act; and questioning the assumptions, frameworks, knowledge, research and informa. [...] Overall, and again in the words of the ‘change we want to see’ paper, we hope that the approaches outlined above are starting to model what a new set of systems might look like, based on fundamentally different ways of thinking and acting, and that they will help to move us towards systems that are governed in the interests of those they serve, with social justice, mutual care, action learning, li. [...] This will likely take the shape of modest pots of core funding, with the aims of supporting and learning alongside existing activity; agreeing questions in which we have a joint interest; engaging in wider discussion and inquiry with other partners and in the ’places’ where Lankelly Chase has invested funds; and developing advisory roles in the medium term so that new and different voices can help.