This is the full-text of a speech I gave to a Workshop on Mental Health and Neurodiversity held by the Sydney Alliance. …

Not long ago I was sitting in the courtyard of a pleasant city cafe in inner Sydney when a colleague from a big Australian NGO leaned over and said in a hushed but determined tone, that we needed to scale. I nodded. But looking back I wish I had brought…

This article will appear in an upcoming book about Community Organising, published in Germany. When I first encountered ‘community organising’ I saw it as a distinctive practice for making change in the city. …

This blog was delivered as a speech to the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney on 31 March 2022. When I was 19 years old in the second year of my law degree, I had a severe psychosis. It came on during the annual National Union of Students Conference…

Speech delivered to Citizens UK Guild of Organisers on 1 March 2022 For nine years I worked with the global community organising network called the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), as the instigator and Lead Organiser of the Sydney Alliance. I was attracted to the IAF for its bigness. It had…

This speech was delivered by Amanda Tattersall to Citizen UK’s Guild of Organisers on 5 January 2022. I first discovered community organising through books in the early 2000s. Which is a little unusual because organising is before all else experiential, not cerebral. But in Australia it didn’t exist. …

Amanda Tattersall & Marc Stears Co-design is an alluring concept. But while the idea of researchers building deep partnerships with communities sounds attractive, the practice is interpreted and used in an almost confusingly vast spectrum of forms. …

By Amanda Tattersall. I have walked a life living two identities. On the surface, I am ‘normal’ Amanda. I work, connect, and strive in the world just like you. At my core, I have lived a life yearning for change. I am an organiser. I discovered organising in the wake…

By Dr Amanda Tattersall and Professor Marc Stears In 2018 the journal Nature declared that the best research is produced when researchers and communities work together — co-producing or co-designing knowledge. Co-design has a long history and one of its more interesting off-shoots is the civil society practice known as…