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Designing for Changing Relations by Elitsa Atanasova

By Alice | December 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Designing for Changing Relations by Elitsa Atanasova

Partnering with Lancaster University has provided our team at Changing Relations with skilled individuals to aid our work, whilst offering students the opportunity to experience work within the creative industry…

Creating our Learning Policy with Jo Chandler from our Steering Group

By Megan | December 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Creating our Learning Policy with Jo Chandler from our Steering Group

As an arts-based education organisation, it was important for us to lay out our Creative Learning Policy and be able to share it with those we work with. We invited…

Domestic abuse is everyone’s business – which is why workplaces should do more

By Megan | December 22, 2021 | Comments Off on Domestic abuse is everyone’s business – which is why workplaces should do more

Media coverage has pointed to increased numbers of domestic abuse incidents during the past 18 months of the pandemic. But has this translated into increased action in support of those…

Grace Stubbings: My time as Creative Assistant for Changing Relations

By Megan | December 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Grace Stubbings: My time as Creative Assistant for Changing Relations

Following a successful Kickstart placement, coordinated via government gateway provider, Durham Works, Grace Stubbings, also a musician in the up and coming all-girl rock band, Venus Grrrls, blogs about her…

Putting sustainability at the forefront of our organisation

By Alice | December 17, 2021 | Comments Off on Putting sustainability at the forefront of our organisation

This year we have been putting sustainability at the forefront of our conversations and recently developed our own Sustainability Policy, with thanks to our Sustainability Intern Anna Barrett from Durham…

We need to place more attention on gender equality in the workplace during times of crisis, not less

By Lisa Davis | May 5, 2021 | Comments Off on We need to place more attention on gender equality in the workplace during times of crisis, not less

Written by our Steering Group Co-chair, Dr Stephen Burrell Today we are launching a new report which discusses the findings from a survey we conducted with members of the North…

Celebrating our new Steering Group

By Lisa Davis | April 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Celebrating our new Steering Group

Last week we shared the news of our 2 fab new Board members. This week we are celebrating our new Steering Group members. We also want to take a moment…

Director’s Blog takeover! – from intern Primrose Baxter

By Lisa Davis | April 6, 2021 | Comments Off on Director’s Blog takeover! – from intern Primrose Baxter

I began my internship with Changing Relations in November 2020 as a student at Durham University via the Education Department. I had an artistic background from school and higher education,…

The challenge of changing gender norms

By Lisa Davis | June 22, 2020 | Comments Off on The challenge of changing gender norms

Here at Changing Relations, we’ve spent a lot of the past 3 months of the Covid19 pandemic talking about domestic abuse. It was clear from the get-go that the lockdown…

Director’s Blog: Protect & Provide – is mental health gendered?

By Lisa Davis | February 12, 2019 | Comments Off on Director’s Blog: Protect & Provide – is mental health gendered?

If you’ve been wondering what gender norms are, why they matter, and why we’re linking them to mental health, then this is the post for you! When we talk about…