Inside iriss

When all the bees get together: reflections from our 2026 Learning Week

For me, the first part of learning week is putting my out-of-office response on. Iriss is closed for our annual...

Guest blog: Esme MacIntyre

I am an illustrator and printmaker based in Glasgow, and having worked with Iriss before, I was very happy to...

Our new website is live!

After months of hard work we are delighted to share a fresh, new website that reflects our commitment to creating...

Developing a learning and doing organisation – how Iriss can help

We often work with organisations in social work and social care on developing learning and support systems within their processes/procedures,...

Leading innovation: Join our Board!

We’re looking for curious, thoughtful people to join our Board.  Here at Iriss we want to create the conditions for social...

Neurodiversity: the clue is in the name

As neurodiverse people, it has been a joy to see the recent rise in awareness and acceptance of how different...

Maps and mountains

The map is not the territory The last time I tried to climb a mountain I failed spectacularly. It was a...

What did we learn from our Learning Week?

Learning Week is over at Iriss now. We spent three days in person, eating pastries and chatting about how our...

Evaluation – Invisible String

As part of our learning week we had a day where we focused on our internal evaluation process, as well...