VOXUR | Who's Using Voxur?

Social Inclusion

Blackburn with Darwen Borough

The Vision 2030 conference saw the start of a collective collaboration, involving all strategic partners throughout both communities to build an initial grounding for safer neighbourhoods, future regeneration and ultimately, change.

Jack Straw and others expressed their opinions on Blackburn with Darwen in 20 years time.

He believed that people are extremely influential when it comes to change.

By allowing people to realise their own potential and by providing them with stable environments to do so, it enables new skill sets to form within communities, ensuring Blackburn with Darwen take their future into their own hands.

This will ultimately allow Blackburn with Darwen to regenerate and compete with cities such as Manchester and Liverpool by reinventing themselves.

Glasgow Caledonian University

GCU along with every other University, have yearly student intake targets. Glasgow Caledonian required the means to shout about their student successes and encourage and convince their target demographic that GCU was the University for them.

Key to achieving the right tone for this was to use Peer to Peer testimony. Integral to our approach was to send out VOXUR to current and past students enabling them to tell in their own words why GCU was working and had worked for them. The result was a highly effective recruitment DVD for both the domestic and international markets. Our recruitment methodology has been so successful that we won a HEIST Award – the Oscars for Marketing in the Higher Education.

GLOW

GLOW - Co-Create

Co-Create is a pioneering new initiative to bring arts education resources online for schools across Scotland through Glow. The project has been set up to explore Glow’s potential to support innovative approaches to learning and teaching through the arts.

Through Co-Create, selected Scottish Arts Council funded arts organisations will be supported to deliver a number of ambitious demonstration projects which will trial new ways of learning and teaching.

Click on Video above or link below to find out more:

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/glowscotland/sharingpractice/cocreate.asp

How to use the NHS

How to use the NHS - Patient Experiences

Having embarked on a new phase of patient centred care the NHS increasingly requires technology and facilities to accommodate all of its patients across the UK. VOXUR’s non-discriminatory multi-lingual capabilities allow patients of 17 different languages and varying levels of literacy to share their NHS experience.

Acknowledging that Britain’s health service aims to give citizens a sense of security so that they “feel more valued and better treated” it is imperative that service users are not disadvantaged nor their health compromised due to issues with communication.

Patients can confide in VOXUR from the comfort of their own surroundings, thus cataloguing their genuine journey of care, free from external influence.

A target driven NHS cannot function effectively without the capacity to chart patient progress. Showcasing “evidence based care that is equitable across the world” physiotherapists, speech and language therapists and a host of other professionals have audio and visual proof of patient journeys on the road to recovery.

Take a look at the site here: http://www.howtousethenhs.com/

JISC CETIS

Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards, provides advice to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on educational technology and standards. Their website brings together educational technology news, comment and analysis, as well as information on community events. VOXUR helps JISC capture contributions to current debates and future thinking in this rapidly growing and changing field.

Mearns Community School Network - Aberdeenshire Council

Mearns Community School Network - Aberdeenshire Council - Community Regeneration

Mearns Community School Network used VOXUR to interview 263 pupils to understand what young people thought about their local community, more specifically about the different aspects of life in the Mearns: leisure & transport facilities, youth information & work and safety in their area.

The result was a 123 page pdf document and a 9 minute video which provided the human factor and evidence of work undertaken to all of the statistics listed.

NHS Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon recently announced her plans for a new NHS Quality Strategy. A key part of this is person centred care. VOXUR provided the opportunity for everyone to describe their views about the proposed strategy and the option to leave stories of their recent experiences with the NHS. Click on the video to listen to what people had to say.

NHS Tayside

Views on the future of the local health service

NHS Tayside are asking patients, staff and the general public to give their views on the future of their local health service.

Central to this is the opportunity for the public to leave their views on VOXUR about their experience of NHS Tayside and ideas they may have to improve the current service by enabling people of all abilities to voice their opinion and capturing the emotions behind their thoughts.

Chairman of NHS Tayside, Sandy Watson, said: "One of the aims of the health fair is to make the people of Tayside aware that it is only by working together that we can make a difference to the future of our NHS.

“We have ambitious plans to work with local communities and we are focused on four main aims – to contribute to closing the health inequalities gap, to improve healthy life expectancy by supporting people to look after themselves, to ensure that services meet quality standards, especially patient experience and to be cost effective in all decisions, actions and services.

“We would encourage patients, visitors and staff to come along and give us their views on their NHS experience and how we can build on and improve their experience in the future.”

Scotland’s Learning Partnership

LIFELONG LEARNING: A GLOBAL COMMUNITY

From Canada to the Philippines to citizens of Scottish heritage VOXUR recorded the personal narratives of attendants at an Adult Learning Conference entitled “A Time for Learning: Paving the Way to CONFINTEA VI”. The event brought together a ‘global community’ of mature learners to discuss the future of adult learning.

VOXUR upends erstwhile barriers caused by language, literacy levels. Addressing dyslexia and other obstacles to learning VOXUR poses questions to candidates in a lively visual format or even in their native tongue.

United in their conviction that “Everybody has the right to an education” a nascent hope resurfaces in many responses that “Comment and opinion be expressed more by the adult learning community”.

The technology trialled at this conference points to the future of lifelong learning- personalised, egalitarian and accessible technology. VOXUR; a voice for all gives people the dignity of a private recording scenario free from public scrutiny.

Scottish Book Trust - Gowan Calder

Gowan Calder was Writer in Residence at HMP Glenochil in Clackmannanshire from 2008-9. Gowan has a wealth of experience in community theatre and worked with prisoners on developing their writing and storytelling skills across a number of genres, from telling their own life stories to devising drama and stand-up comedy routines. In July 2009 a group of prisoners put on a production of “F**k This for a Game of Soldiers”, a play they had written with Gowan’s support.

Scottish Government - Equally Well

Scottish Government - Equally Well Initiative

The Scottish Government’s Equally Well project is tasked with tackling the inequalities in health that will otherwise prevent Scotland from achieving the Government’s overall purpose of sustainable economic growth, supported by increased healthy life expectancy.

A key part of this is engaging with and listening to people from the poorest & most excluded sections of society. Equally Well are using VOXUR as their engagement tool. VOXUR uses video to ask people questions and allows them to easily answer in their own words, regardless of literacy or language. VOXUR’s powerful video management then allows the Project’s Test Sites to easily order testimony & feedback and to publish edits to web and rich media reports.

In this way, VOXUR is not only affording Equally Well insight into the barriers to change, it begins the process of empowerment for the individuals consulted.

Just last week VOXUR was used to report back to the Ministerial Task Force a 12 month review of the Equally Well implementation to date. Please click on the link below to view:

www.equallywell.com

The BIG Bump

The BIG Bump - Breastfeeding Diaries

This breastfeeding video diaries were produced as part of the Big Bump DVD, A guide for the mums (and dads!) of Lanarkshire offering easy to follow advice on staying fit and healthy during pregnancy and beyond. With information about exercise, breast-feeding, vitamin supplements, oral health, pregnancy screening and much more.

Youthbank Scotland

There are between 6 and 50 young people involved in each of Scotland 19 YouthBanks, currently 407 young grant makers. These are the young people involved in all aspects of leadership and decision making in their YouthBank. Their role is not only to lead and decide but to do “Leadership in action” making their YouthBank work and being visible in their community challenging the often negative stereotype held about young people.

YouthBank invests in activities to productively, creatively engage and involve young people in their communities challenging boredom and reducing the mischief that can evolve from it.

VOXUR helps keep a record of the young people’s journey and provides evidence of the difference that YouthBank makes to both individuals and communities as a whole.

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