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The following questions have started leaping around in my head and i need to go to work. So parking them here for further thought and refinement. But also for comment should some passer by have comment:

• What design principles or activities do other alumnae initiatives seem to suggest work and what not work?
• What design principles do COP theory and Network Theory suggest are needed for a successful alumnae type thing?

Note to self: I am seeing alumnae thing as a COP so let's explicitly use that as a metaphor.

• What are fellows' views on their own needs, desires and on the consequent shape of a COP thing?
• What have other people experienced regarding CoP and alumnae associations that can shed light on critical design principles?
• Once I have drawn up a long list of design principles, and possibly concrete ways forward, or some models, what do fellows think about those?
• Are views similar for all country fellows? all levels? all ages? all disciplines?
• regarding design, who should be in or out of 'COP'? Who should decide that?

What about the tension that I am feeling between Fellows' purposes and AWARD's purposes for having a COP.

What about seeing it as: research being a search for meaning where meaning is an emergent property of the interactions between reified objects like theory and other case studies and fellows lived experiences?