Profit or purpose: it is your decision but our future
Written by Emma Hoang, Engagement Assistant, Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, and BSc Marketing & Management graduate of the University of Sussex. “What do you want to do in the future?” My primary motivation used to be salary and by … Continued
Māori & social innovation
Written by Dr Ella Henry, Associate Professor and Director of Māori Advancement, Auckland University of Technology School of Business, Economics and Law; and Associate Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation. Kia ora, greetings, I am a Māori/Indigenous woman from … Continued
The Social Innovation Think Tank: African American management history
The Social Innovation Think Tank The Social Innovation Think Tank series explores the power of social innovation in the modern world; sharing its necessity and capacity to challenge the status quo. The monthly series is hosted by Dr Neil Stott … Continued
A moment in time
Written by Richard Akerele, MSt in Social Innovation and Graduate Associate Research Fellow for the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation. Sometimes the significance of a particular moment only becomes clear once you look back and reflect. With the benefit of … Continued
The Social Innovation Think Tank: what does social-symbolic work mean for social innovators?
The Social Innovation Think Tank The Social Innovation Think Tank series explores the power of social innovation in the modern world, sharing its necessity and capacity to challenge the status quo. The monthly series is hosted by Dr Neil Stott … Continued
Social enterprise for social change: the rise of Newfoundland & Labrador
The rural and remote communities of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, are the source of many fascinating historical and contemporary examples of organising for social change and provide the backdrop and the inspiration for the work of the Centre for Social Enterprise (CSE).
My social innovation story: from fencing to social innovation
Written by Rania Rahardja, a student on our MSt in Social Innovation programme, who matriculated with Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Over the next two years, we’ll follow the journey of some of our Cohort Five students, who started … Continued
The Social Innovation Think Tank: why social innovation?
The Social Innovation Think Tank The Social Innovation Think Tank series explores the power of social innovation in the modern world; sharing its necessity and capacity to challenge the status quo. The monthly series is hosted by Dr Neil Stott … Continued
Learning from social anthropology: worldviews, world-making and social innovation
Written by Dr Joana Nascimento, Social Anthropologist and Teaching Associate in the MSt in Social Innovation programme at CCSI. Every time someone asks me ‘what is social anthropology, then?’, I’m reminded of the catchy opening line in a slim introductory … Continued
Removing the concrete wall: how to increase the number of Black women in leadership
There’s the gender gap and there’s the race/gender gap The ‘glass ceiling’ is now a common term used to reference the set of obstacles women face to hinder their progress in the workplace, especially as they aim to rise up … Continued