Programme Lead, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
Saffron leads a long-term research and innovation programme about sustainable prosperity in East London at UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity. She convenes the London Prosperity Board, a partnership between UCL, government, businesses and communities, to rethink what prosperity means for London’s neighbourhoods.
Saffron led The Young Foundation’s work on communities for several years before establishing Social Life, a social enterprise set up by The Young Foundation in 2012 to become a specialist centre of research about the social life of communities.
She is an anthropologist with a long-term interest in examining how communities are affected by regeneration.
Contributions
A review of urban Community Land Trusts in England
Publication Posted on: 1 December 2011
Design for Social Sustainability
Publication Posted on: 19 November 2011
Mapping social networks to improve public service delivery
Publication Posted on: 1 July 2011
Why communities matter: What do people and places need from the Big Society?
Publication Posted on: 1 August 2010
Managing the risks of neighbourhood governance
Publication Posted on: 1 August 2010
The End of Regeneration? Improving what matters on small housing estates
Publication Posted on: 1 April 2010