At the start of 2023, after leaving Global Integrity, I began working independently. These pieces explore how complex social systems work and how to engage with them, through regulatory landscaping, knowledge gardening, relational practice, systemic investing and more. Newest first.
★ marks pieces included in Selected writing.
2026
- ★ Living, learning, loving systems: Connection, cultivation, calibration and care · 11 August, LinkedIn
- ★ Regulatory landscaping: Better late than never! · 5 August, LinkedIn
- ★ Understanding the landscape and sensing how it moves: Two complementary approaches to navigating complexity and its political economy dynamics · 23 June, LinkedIn
- ★ A human and some loops: Crafting an AI-assisted synthesis on health systems corruption · 27 May, LinkedIn
- ★ Rio Reflections: Systemic investing in context · 6 May, LinkedIn
- ★ Corruption in health systems: how regulatory landscaping can help · 15 April, LSE blog
- ★ Cross-pollination: Complexity, corruption and community gardening · 3 April, LinkedIn
- Regulatory landscaping: Tending the habitats from which patterns emerge · 31 March, LinkedIn
- ★ Complexity, corruption and change: The SOAS-ACE approach to understanding and addressing policy-distorting corruption · 3 March, LinkedIn
2025
- ★ Building bridges for more effective policies: Market Systems Development and the SOAS-ACE approach to political economy analysis · 9 December, LinkedIn
- ★ Full-stack systemic: Measuring, learning, investing · 25 November, LinkedIn
- Measuring “impact” to inform systemic investing: Reflections, resonances and questions · 18 November, LinkedIn
- Making sense of emergence: Measuring impact to inform systemic investing (Part 1) · 11 November, LinkedIn
- ★ Tailoring and localizing Systems MEL for impact across contexts: UNDP’s MEL 360 Tools & Guidance on systems monitoring, evaluation and learning · 23 October, LinkedIn
- ★ Landscapes of learning: Field notes from a fruitful Summer of exploring emergence · 6 October, LinkedIn
- Market Systems, Policies and the Risks of Corruption · 9 September, LinkedIn
- ★ Knowledge gardening in complexity, in action · 27 August, LinkedIn
- Beyond the confines of conformity (Part 6 of Complexity, corruption and change) · 5 August, LinkedIn
- “Where is the jungle?” (Part 5 of Complexity, corruption and change) · 31 July, LinkedIn
- Power Positive and Islands of Integrity (Part 4 of Complexity, corruption and change) · 28 July, LinkedIn
- Identifying entry points in systems of transnational corruption (Part 3 of Complexity, corruption and change) · 25 July, LinkedIn
- Navigating the political economy of corruption (Part 2 of Complexity, corruption and change) · 23 July, LinkedIn
- ★ Complexity, corruption and change: Learning from the political economy of positive deviance (1 of 6) · 21 July, LinkedIn
- ★ Nurturing living, loving & learning systems: Six months of resources and reflections · 30 June, LinkedIn
- ★ Local, learning, systems: Simple solutions and complex realities · 28 May, LinkedIn
- ★ Reflective Relational Practice - a video from the Local Systems Community · 15 May, LinkedIn
- ★ Weaving on the fly: Power, incentives, relationships and learning (video) · 30 April, LinkedIn
- ★ Reflecting on the dynamics of complex social systems and joining some dots · 29 April, LinkedIn
- ★ Reflective Relational Practice: Assessing and enhancing the quality of our relationships · 25 March, LinkedIn
- Local Systems - A few rescued docs from the Trump/Musk chaos · 18 February, LinkedIn
- Relationships, reflection and resources: Explorations and engagement for 2024 · 6 January, LinkedIn
2024
- ★ Embracing Systems Practice: Reflections on USAID’s Local Systems Position Paper · 5 December, LinkedIn
- Relationships, co-learning and social change (Reflections on my October explorations) · 4 November, LinkedIn
- ★ Mobilizing cycles of systems change - The life-changing work of World Bicycle Relief · 24 October, LinkedIn
- Embracing the beauty and bounty of Autumn (My August and September explorations) · 1 October, LinkedIn
- Systems, innovation, diversity and inclusion · 24 September, LinkedIn
- Making connections & nurturing community: Sussex Seaside Systems Socials · 16 September, LinkedIn
- ★ Ecosystems, emergence and social change: Exploring implications for funders · 15 August, LinkedIn
- Embracing complexity: Sense-making, reflecting and connecting (July 2024 explorations) · 8 August, LinkedIn
- Knowledge Gardening in Complexity · 8 July, LinkedIn
- Ego-systems, eco-systems and sharing resources (from June 2024) · 3 July, LinkedIn
- ★ Ecologies, words and engagement · 20 June, LinkedIn
- No-mow May: Contexts, emergence and learning (Reflections from May 2024) · 4 June, LinkedIn
- Combinations: Death-star thinking, meadows, love and constraints · 1 May, LinkedIn
- Regenerative cultures: Complex systems, power, capabilities and emergence · 4 April, LinkedIn
- Complex social challenges and participatory systemic practices: February-ish explorations · 11 March, LinkedIn
2023
- ★ Systems of corruption: Patterns, actors and (inter)actions · 6 December, LinkedIn
- Gratitude, sadness, regrets and pride: Personal reflections on the sunsetting of Global Integrity · 30 October, LinkedIn
- Complexity, systems, learning and impact: Compare, contrast, cross-fertilize · 6 October, LinkedIn
- ★ loving systems · 27 July, LinkedIn
- Selected seedlings: Complexity, causalities, corruption & practicalities · 25 July, LinkedIn
- ★ Systemic Meandering: Emerging reflections on paradoxes and polarities · 5 June, LinkedIn
- Living in systems: Complexity, contexts and experience in the Results, Sense-making, Learning approach · 3 May, LinkedIn
- Awareness, engagement and emergent learning questions · 12 April, LinkedIn
- Understanding and evaluating complexity: Data, evidence and models · 28 March, LinkedIn
- Contexts, typologies and learning: Grains of truth for better public policy · 21 March, LinkedIn
- Patterns, power and systems: Shifting the deckchairs or turning the ship? · 13 March, LinkedIn
- Continuums, complexities, contexts · 10 March, LinkedIn
- Awareness, resonance, engagement, reflection · 9 March, alanhudson.info
- Awareness, resonance, engagement, reflection (intro) · 9 March, LinkedIn
- ★ Living, learning and loving systems (Feb 2023) · 2 February, alanhudson.info
2022
- ★ Diving deeper into complexity, kindness and collaborative learning · 22 December, alanhudson.info (written as I left Global Integrity)