Dr Tippett
09 Sep 2013 The Royal Town Planning Institute North West has awarded Dr. Joanne Tippett a commendation for positive community engagement for her work with Ketso, the innovative product she created to support collaboration and creative group work. Ketso is the first spin-out founded by a female entrepreneur from The University of Manchester's humanities faculty, as well as being the first spin-out from research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In the four years since the company was launched, the hands-on toolkit has proved a huge success with organisations, ranging from the Scottish Government Equality and Diversity team, to MerseyCare NHS, to local authorities and over half of the UK's universities. Described as a 'workshop in a bag', Ketso provides a range of tools for participants that are designed to ease the exchange of ideas and build a clear picture of the group's thinking on a particular issue. These include coloured shapes that can be built into 'thought-trees' and free workshop plans, making creative engagement available to more people without the need for expensive facilitators. First devised in 1996 in Southern Africa, Joanne helped villagers in Lesotho work together to plan a better future for their area, and the social aspect remains a key pillar of the business. The supply chain for Ketso is geared towards helping disadvantaged people and makes use of an ethical trading facility in Kolkata, a fair trade workshop in Bangladesh and Paperworks, a sheltered workshop in Leeds.
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