Senior Researcher
Samanthi works across a range of research projects for the Institute for Community Studies and The Young Foundation. She is motivated by making research more accessible and equitable, and loves research the most when it is used to bring communities together to co-create the change they want to see happen and enable more distributed decision-making.
Before joining the Institute for Community Studies in February 2022, Samanthi worked at the RSA as a researcher, focused on more participatory approaches to research on housing, placemaking and community wellbeing, and as a peer researcher for Toynbee Hall on their work to improve the housing sector for young people in London.
Samanthi is a facilitator with Civic Square and Enrol Yourself on their peer-led work to reimagine more equitable and regenerative neighbourhoods. She is also a trustee for RUSS Lewisham, a community land trust, building affordable housing in the place she grew up. Aside from that, you can find her covered in clay on her mission to become a self-taught ceramicist.
Contact information
samanthi.theminimulle@youngfoundation.orgContributions
Our journey to net zero
Publication Posted on: 12 October 2023
‘Communities must be at the heart of a people-powered transition to net zero’
Blog Posted on: 11 May 2023
Research and engagement to develop ’15-Minute Neighbourhoods’ in Waltham Forest
Publication Posted on: 22 March 2023
The Civic Journey: Summary of emerging findings
Publication Posted on: 19 December 2022