PR Week Op Ed - Communications and polarisation
Writing in PR Week, Laura Osborne, Alex Chesterfield and Ali Goldsworthy outlined the importance of good communication in a crisis and how comms professionals can unwittingly stoke polarisation.
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The Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge launches a course based on Poles Aprt.
Course looks at how to address the pernicious effects of polarisation and groupishness
Us vs them: Why people polarise and how to bring them together focuses on how to bridge these divides, sharing...
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Poles Apart - Welsh launch
Heads Up & Deryn Consulting hosted Ali Goldsworthy, writer, broadcaster & CEO talk political polarisation in Wales & across the world
What is political polarisation? What does it mean f...
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Ali Goldsworthy on Women's Hour
What was it that helped motivate Ali Goldsworthy to start thinking about polarisation years before the EU referendum or the election of Donald Trump. In discussion with Emma Barnett,for Radio 4's W...
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Poles Apart - wine and wotsits launch
In a probable world first, Pols Apart held a packed London launch party, taking over the regular campaigners meet up Wine and Wotsits. Based on a series of fast paced, Pecha Kucha style talks atten...
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Polarisation series with 1014
In collaboration with 1014, the space for ideas, in New York we are producing a series of events on polarisation and what can be done about it.
The Business Case for Polarization and Its Consequen...
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Could you have lost out on a job thanks to polarisation? - Op Ed in City Am
Laura Osborne and Ali Goldsworthy wrote an Op-Ed for City AM - asking, could you have lost out on a job because of your politics? The answer, almost definitely
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Appearance on Breaking the Fever podcast
Alex Chesterfield, Laura Osborne and Ali Goldsworthy appeared on the Breaking the Fever podcast. Hosted by NYU's Alison Taylor and Jerome Taylor topics discussed ranged from what is polarisation, t...
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City AM op ed: could you have lost out on a job because of your politics?
Laura Osborne and Alison Goldsworthy wrote for City AM
Could you have lost out on a job because of your politics? Almost definitely
Being part of a group is central to how humans survive, and once...
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Poles Apart to be released on September 9th
Poles Apart will be released in hardback worldwide with Penguin Random House on September 9th. We all swooned over the marvellous Sarah Paul's voice that was used for the audiobook. Fans of The IT ...
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Alex Chesterfield on The Human Risk podcast
Alex Chesterfield appeared on The Human Risk podcast with Christian Hunt to talk polarisation alongside what she has learnt from her day job as a behavioural scientist working in the financial serv...
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The Times oped on uncertainty and polarisation
Uncertainty is unsettling. Hobbits often speak for many of us. Their idea of a second breakfast, followed by elevenses is genius. But their wisdom extends further. On the eve of the Battle for Midd...
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