John Hitchin
johnhitchin.bsky.social
John Hitchin
@johnhitchin.bsky.social
Strategy, evidence and narrative. Stories of Change LLP.

Interested in people, places, and how change happens.

Dad. Sometimes there's poetry.
That's very beautiful. I loved this line: "And the most I can ever really know of the past is what has been, not what might have." It is a blessing to me to think in this way, but there is a loss there too.
July 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
And we're up to a look at the future landscape of evidence: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/future-tre...
Future trends in evidence
The landscape of evidence is changing as we write
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June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
That's given us some patterns of evidence use: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/patterns-o... and some observations about that evidence across our categories: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/observatio...
Patterns of evidence use in place-based work
The evidence use supports the categories
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June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And some reasons to think that there's value in this approach placeandevidence.substack.com/p/strengths-...
Strengths and weaknesses of the classification
Is this useful? Is this good?
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June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A working classification of place-based change
Mapping the categories
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June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And what that tells us about practice in the UK: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/what-does-...
What does the literature tell us about what’s particular about PBW in the UK?
Lagging, but with an opportunity
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June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And how that manifests itself in evidence: placeandevidence.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
What’s the evidence problem?
An impasse
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June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
In the Substack we walk through how we've thought differently about the problem placeandevidence.substack.com/p/place-base...
Place-based working in the UK
A flightless bird
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June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I'd love to get any reflections on this work and our approach to the field of practice
June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I used to live on that road. Always envied that house.
November 18, 2024 at 10:12 AM