Reports and research

Communities Driving Change: shifting local systems

23 December 2020 | Authors:

This programme supported residents in Tower Hamlets to take action for improved health and wellbeing in their communities, co-designing and developing grassroots solutions to enable real change.

Communities Driving Change: Covid-19 response to recovery

21 December 2020 | Authors: Nasima Begum, Zain Ali,

A 2020 report from the Tower Hamlets Communities Driving Change (CDC) team at The Young Foundation and FutureGov.

Navigating uncertainty and remaining resilient: the experience of community businesses during Covid-19

10 December 2020 | Authors: Eve Avdoulos, Victoria Boelman,

Funded by Power to Change, this Community Businesses and COVID-19 report explores the impacts of Covid-19 on community businesses in England and the ways they adapted in response. Community businesses provide support to communities all over the country. They are

Social cohesion in Barking and Dagenham: participatory approaches

9 December 2020 | Authors: Jana Tauschinski, Victoria Boelman,

A report reflecting interviews, storytelling events, innovation workshops and creative research in Barking and Dagenham, 2018-2020

Let the roll-out begin – vaccine hesitancy, dilemmas and division  

4 December 2020 | Authors: Alice Bell, Eve Avdoulos, Jana Tauschinski, Victoria Boelman,

As part of our Covid-19 and Community Life study, generously funded by a Wellcome Trust public engagement grant, we are excited to be sharing the fourth snapshot of our insights in a new report on vaccines.  Download the report In recent weeks, the news

Positioning peer research in a policy context

23 November 2020 | Authors: Caroline Yang, Zoe Dibb,

Using urban and youth policy case studies, this report focuses on peer research and co-production through citizen engagement.

Covid-19 and community life: the people’s strategy

29 October 2020 | Authors: Alice Bell, Eve Avdoulos, Jana Tauschinski, Victoria Boelman,

As new restrictions are implemented across the UK, over two-thirds of participants reported feeling as though the government have been handling the coronavirus pandemic badly. But what would they do differently? We asked 125 people across the country to imagine

Peer research in the UK

23 October 2020 | Authors: Caroline Yang, Zoe Dibb,

This report provides a comprehensive introduction to peer research methodology and advocates for its value as a legitimate and insightful approach.

Covid-19 and community life: why are cases rising?

8 October 2020 | Authors: Alice Bell, Eve Avdoulos, Jana Tauschinski, Victoria Boelman,

As part of our Covid-19 Community Life study, generously supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant, this report is the second snapshot of insights. With Covid-19 cases rising, and restrictions tightening again, this snapshot responds to a turning point

Covid-19 and community life: divided we stand?

30 September 2020 | Authors: Alice Bell, Eve Avdoulos, Jana Tauschinski, Victoria Boelman,

As part of our Covid-19 Community Life study, generously supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant, this report is the first snapshot of insights. As the pandemic arrived on UK shores, the country was already sharply divided. We had

Reimagining Rent: Social Innovation in the Private Rented Sector

21 September 2020 | Authors: Adam Kybird, Tigran Sogomonian,

Over the last decade, almost two million new households have begun renting privately. The Private Rented Sector is growing rapidly but it is quickly having to meet new needs as increasing numbers of families with children, older people and those

How Covid-19 changed community life in the UK

9 July 2020 | Authors: Franca Roeschert, Jana Tauschinski, Zoe Dibb,

A week by week archive of life during a pandemic. Understanding the impact on people and communities. Covid-19 has radically changed the way we go about our day-to-day lives. It has shifted where we turn for help and support and