Becca Dove
@beccadove2.bsky.social
Doing relational things for Children & Learning, LB Camden. Social work doctoral student @ Northampton Uni studying kids social support and social infrastructure. Alumni @UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre. Views my own, said with love
So much to reflect on but three things at the front of my mind:
1. Young people know what they want and need from relationships with professionals. They'll tell you about it if you create a space that privileges their voice and influence. Lundy principles help participatory design no end.
1. Young people know what they want and need from relationships with professionals. They'll tell you about it if you create a space that privileges their voice and influence. Lundy principles help participatory design no end.
July 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
So much to reflect on but three things at the front of my mind:
1. Young people know what they want and need from relationships with professionals. They'll tell you about it if you create a space that privileges their voice and influence. Lundy principles help participatory design no end.
1. Young people know what they want and need from relationships with professionals. They'll tell you about it if you create a space that privileges their voice and influence. Lundy principles help participatory design no end.
Today was the first collaborative session of a group of Camden Youth Assembly members, Camden Youth Service, Fitzrovia Youth In Action and the Camden Centre for Relational Practice. Young people initiated the project after leading a youth assembly on VAWG last year.
July 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Today was the first collaborative session of a group of Camden Youth Assembly members, Camden Youth Service, Fitzrovia Youth In Action and the Camden Centre for Relational Practice. Young people initiated the project after leading a youth assembly on VAWG last year.
When young people design relational practice training in their own words, on their own terms.
And a short thread of why community-led participatory design matters a great deal🧵
And a short thread of why community-led participatory design matters a great deal🧵
July 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
When young people design relational practice training in their own words, on their own terms.
And a short thread of why community-led participatory design matters a great deal🧵
And a short thread of why community-led participatory design matters a great deal🧵
Enjoying this by Mark Furlong. Packed with practice ideas for folk working in public services to intensify their efforts to strengthen formal and informal social connections of the people they support (with good reason, not just 'coz').
May 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Enjoying this by Mark Furlong. Packed with practice ideas for folk working in public services to intensify their efforts to strengthen formal and informal social connections of the people they support (with good reason, not just 'coz').
Turning national reform into an opportunity for local participatory design - a short story🧵
Today in Camden was the final session of our Design Group (frontline childrens services staff) and our Families Sounding Board (parents, carers and family members) working together on Family Help reform.
Today in Camden was the final session of our Design Group (frontline childrens services staff) and our Families Sounding Board (parents, carers and family members) working together on Family Help reform.
April 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Turning national reform into an opportunity for local participatory design - a short story🧵
Today in Camden was the final session of our Design Group (frontline childrens services staff) and our Families Sounding Board (parents, carers and family members) working together on Family Help reform.
Today in Camden was the final session of our Design Group (frontline childrens services staff) and our Families Sounding Board (parents, carers and family members) working together on Family Help reform.
My mum sent me this for COVID day of reflection. First lockdown, my folks were shielding so the kids would bike to their house during their allotted exercise outdoors and write messages on their front path. My mum and stepdad are waving from the window. Surreal then and now.
March 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My mum sent me this for COVID day of reflection. First lockdown, my folks were shielding so the kids would bike to their house during their allotted exercise outdoors and write messages on their front path. My mum and stepdad are waving from the window. Surreal then and now.
I get to spend a lot of time with residents with lived experience of public services. Right now it's on codesigning Camden's version of the government family help reforms. Those residents make me think differently every single time. Collaborate - there is always more to know than you know.
January 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I get to spend a lot of time with residents with lived experience of public services. Right now it's on codesigning Camden's version of the government family help reforms. Those residents make me think differently every single time. Collaborate - there is always more to know than you know.
Doctorate reading day, and getting a lot from this report on children's relational health. Makes you think about the informal social connections professionals can help make and 'braid' for children to create a buffering effect www.gse.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
January 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Doctorate reading day, and getting a lot from this report on children's relational health. Makes you think about the informal social connections professionals can help make and 'braid' for children to create a buffering effect www.gse.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
Now an annual tradition in our house to start the year with #REDJanuary. For us it's to walk or run a minimum of a mile outside each day. Less enjoyable in a new years day howling gale. Worth it though. Just. join.redjanuary.com
January 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Now an annual tradition in our house to start the year with #REDJanuary. For us it's to walk or run a minimum of a mile outside each day. Less enjoyable in a new years day howling gale. Worth it though. Just. join.redjanuary.com
I got your book for Christmas. Thoroughly enjoying it - beautifully written, insightful and really engaging. That line from her Nobel Prize lecture - to 'develop institutions that bring out the best in humans' - is my 2025 mantra.
December 29, 2024 at 3:44 PM
I got your book for Christmas. Thoroughly enjoying it - beautifully written, insightful and really engaging. That line from her Nobel Prize lecture - to 'develop institutions that bring out the best in humans' - is my 2025 mantra.
Time for my annual shoutout to local authority adults and children's social care emergency duty teams who are helping people every night, every holiday, every weekend. You don't see them. But they're one of the most creative, problem-solving teams you'll ever meet. Thanks EDTs 🙏🏻
December 22, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Time for my annual shoutout to local authority adults and children's social care emergency duty teams who are helping people every night, every holiday, every weekend. You don't see them. But they're one of the most creative, problem-solving teams you'll ever meet. Thanks EDTs 🙏🏻
First gig for my eldest at Camden's Koko. 17 year since I last saw them play live with Amy, and they're still magical.
December 21, 2024 at 12:36 AM
First gig for my eldest at Camden's Koko. 17 year since I last saw them play live with Amy, and they're still magical.
One of my nerdier sidelines is seeing if you can combine design processes and systemic methods. Next week we're trying doing user journeys using Narrative Therapy's Recipes for Life method. Just a mock up and will have its limitations. But liking it so far dulwichcentre.com.au/wp-content/u...
December 13, 2024 at 9:19 PM
One of my nerdier sidelines is seeing if you can combine design processes and systemic methods. Next week we're trying doing user journeys using Narrative Therapy's Recipes for Life method. Just a mock up and will have its limitations. But liking it so far dulwichcentre.com.au/wp-content/u...
I've been in Grimsby twice in the last fortnight. North East Lincolnshire people are utterly lovely. And they have cool street art.
November 25, 2024 at 9:01 PM
I've been in Grimsby twice in the last fortnight. North East Lincolnshire people are utterly lovely. And they have cool street art.
Only wrote a chapter but it was a lovely(and sobering) thing to curate some stories of childrens social work during pandemic lockdowns with my two writing buddies Tim and Rich.
November 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Only wrote a chapter but it was a lovely(and sobering) thing to curate some stories of childrens social work during pandemic lockdowns with my two writing buddies Tim and Rich.
Holiday read. Loved Tyson's first book and his second is just as good. Story, relation, invitation to seeing the world through different lenses. It shouldn't work as a book. But it does. Recommended.
August 31, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Holiday read. Loved Tyson's first book and his second is just as good. Story, relation, invitation to seeing the world through different lenses. It shouldn't work as a book. But it does. Recommended.
Bit late to this, but its a brilliant read from @jayvanbavel.bsky.social and Dominic Packer on the science of social identity and groups. As entertaining as it is informative. Highly recommended for work life, home life or just life (didn't need my sandals in the picture but we are where we are).
August 25, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Bit late to this, but its a brilliant read from @jayvanbavel.bsky.social and Dominic Packer on the science of social identity and groups. As entertaining as it is informative. Highly recommended for work life, home life or just life (didn't need my sandals in the picture but we are where we are).
Laugh if you will, but I will get a little nostalgic when Google Jamboard is shut down in the autumn. Every board I've got is like a snapshot of the really-big, hot-mess, socially-distanced feels of 2020 that we somehow got through. For that alone, I will love it forever.
August 22, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Laugh if you will, but I will get a little nostalgic when Google Jamboard is shut down in the autumn. Every board I've got is like a snapshot of the really-big, hot-mess, socially-distanced feels of 2020 that we somehow got through. For that alone, I will love it forever.
It might have been created with the climate crisis in mind, but I'm finding this systemic design framework from Design Council equally helpful for conversations about creating relational public services. Comes with a practical toolkit too www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-resource...
August 21, 2024 at 11:39 PM
It might have been created with the climate crisis in mind, but I'm finding this systemic design framework from Design Council equally helpful for conversations about creating relational public services. Comes with a practical toolkit too www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-resource...
Summer reading post 1. Have read these two a few times in recent years but they always give something fresh to reflect on about community and ways of being together. Savouring them in a sunny back garden.
August 18, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Summer reading post 1. Have read these two a few times in recent years but they always give something fresh to reflect on about community and ways of being together. Savouring them in a sunny back garden.
Out for a walk by the woods. This field is often full of wheat this time of year. Its fallow this year, and the wild flowers have found it and reclaimed it. Colour popping everywhere. Just sitting. Enjoying the joy.
August 17, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Out for a walk by the woods. This field is often full of wheat this time of year. Its fallow this year, and the wild flowers have found it and reclaimed it. Colour popping everywhere. Just sitting. Enjoying the joy.
A shy wave hello, Bluesky. You'll mainly find me banging on about designing relational public services and how brilliant local communities are. Oh, and doctorate life - resilience science and informal social support for kids. I have books but not a cat. Can I still be here?
August 17, 2024 at 1:25 PM
A shy wave hello, Bluesky. You'll mainly find me banging on about designing relational public services and how brilliant local communities are. Oh, and doctorate life - resilience science and informal social support for kids. I have books but not a cat. Can I still be here?