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

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

 

Further resources from DEEP on MSC:

A Storytelling Framework for Social Care in Wales: https://insightcollective.socialcare.wales/a-storytelling-framework-for-social-care-in-wales

MSC blog: https://insightcollective.socialcare.wales/whats-on/news-and-blogs/from-metrics-to-meaning-most-significant-change-as-a-learning-focused-approach-to-evaluation-in-wales

MSC film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey0pk1clewI

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/uploads/2018/01/MSCGuide.pdf

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

Glen Robert: Experience-based Co-production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXG0G1LrK3I

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

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

Iain McGilchrist: The Matter with Things, podcast with Rebel Wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U99dQrZdVTg

ChangeTalk Podcast on Deep Democracy: https://youtu.be/1R_MMiCz6QE?si=pTxOPhqanhVH6o_l

Imogen Blood for Joseph Rowntree Foundation - A Better Life: Valuing our Later Years: https://www.housinglin.org.uk/_assets/Resources/Housing/OtherOrganisation/older-people-support-full.pdf

 

Imogen runs a social research consultancy Imogen Blood & Associates:

https://www.imogenblood.co.uk/

She also provides MSC training:

https://www.seralliance.org/

 

Nick Andrews is based at the University of Swansea:

He delivers the DEEP project, funded by Social Care Wales: https://insightcollective.socialcare.wales/developing-evidence-enriched-practice-deep-2

 

 

Chapters

 

0:00 - 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