Summary
Moving Mindsets is FrameWorks UK’s programme for tracking how ‘mindsets’ in the UK change over time. FrameWorks defines mindsets as “deep, enduring patterns of thinking that underlie surface attitudes and opinions”, and argues that culture change stays on the wish list because it is hard to measure. Tracking, it says, shows whether change efforts are working.
The programme builds on the Culture Change Project of the US FrameWorks Institute, whose survey follows mindsets such as individualism and fatalism. The UK pilot, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Health Foundation, has published briefings on how thinking about health, homes and wealth inequality has changed.
Rationale
Ella Saltmarshe sits on its advisory board and FrameWorks UK’s Tamsyn Hyatt joined our studios. A survey tracks patterns of thinking; how to notice what lives in bodies, relationships and environments is our open question.