Boingboing is a community of people brought together by a shared passion to explore and develop research and practice that gets to the crux of how to build resilience in complex situations. We use the phrase Boingboing community deliberately; we are a group of individuals of all ages, in paid, volunteer and student roles, who share a real mix of identities. Just about all of us have faced different forms of adversity throughout our lives. This helps keep everything we do at Boingboing focused on working in a way that upholds the principle of ‘nothing about us without us’ and helps us achieve our collective goal of ‘beating the odds, whilst also changing the odds’.
Here’s just some of the inspiring people we work with in the Boingboing community. You can find out more about them by clicking on their biographies.
Anne Rathbone
I am undertaking a PhD, working with young people with learning disabilities as co-researchers to explore their own experiences of resilience – what is helpful and what is not.
Grace Robson
I am a Peer Youth Engagement Worker in Blackpool. I became involved with Boingboing through volunteering for Co-production group. I’m creative, passionate about helping people and am really looking forward to bringing my creativity to my role at Boingboing.
Gabrielle Rowles
I have a background in both social work and teaching. I began my working life supporting disadvantaged groups or individuals, often using sport and outdoor adventure.
Helen Thomas
I have practised as a Social Worker for over 30 years, and have always tried to work resiliently. My areas of expertise are child mental health, child abuse, neglect and fostering.
Carl Walker
In my spare time I tour a stand-up comedy show as a fundraiser against NHS privatisation and cycle my bike increasingly slowly over the South Downs.
Gemma Williams
I’m an autistic researcher at the Centre for Resilience and Social Justice. My PhD looked at communication between autistic and non-autistic people from a linguistics perspective: reframing breakdowns in understanding as a two-way problem.
Justin Williams
I am a PhD student at the University of Brighton’s Centre of Resilience for Social Justice looking at what employers can do to promote resilience in ex-offenders in the workplace.
Lisa Williams
I have been involved in numerous projects with Boingboing over many years and return continually to the Resilience Framework as a sound, evidence based approach.
Lauren Wyatt
I am a Peer Youth Engagement Worker in Blackpool. I have been a volunteer for the Blackpool Grand Theatre from Blackpool Carers’ Centre, The Magic Club and Grand Young Company. I love helping to give young people the chance to have a creative voice and is super excited to start working with Boingboing.
