In collaboration with The McPin Foundation and Black Thrive, The Social Innovation Partnership and our team of Community Researchers explored the experiences of Black people in Lambeth in relation to employment, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. Hear more about the research process and the findings in this blog from Keisha Simms.
Read MoreIn this think piece, co-authored by Shaun Danquah, Marcus Tayebwa and Muhammed Rauf, our three team members reflect on an important and impactful year in their respective journey’s, navigating the ever-evolving world of Community Research and beyond.
Read MoreFor our second air pollution forum meeting, we split into groups to discuss key questions to address the lack of representation within the air pollution agenda. Read more for Muhammed Rauf’s reflections – a member of the community researcher team who led one of the discussions.
Read MoreMeet Yusif Morris, a member of our Community Research team. In this blog, Yusif shares the realities of growing up in South-West London as a Black man and how his experiences have shaped his passion to make change through Community Research.
Read MoreThe next blog in our community voice series was written by Sylvana Walcott. Read her story as she shares her journey from leaving school at 16 to becoming a mother, entrepreneur and Community Researcher.
Read MoreThe Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) was recently funded by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity to engage local communities in Lambeth and Southwark to discuss the impacts of air pollution and design new ways to give underrepresented communities a voice in the space. Our intern, Josh Fatoye, shares his reflections after our first air pollution forum meeting.
Read MoreIn the third in our series, we meet Danna Michelle Quinones Rodriguez, a member of our Community Researcher team who talks about her upbringing and experiences first in Colombia, her journey to joining the Community Research team in London and her desires to truly drive social change.
Read MoreRecapping our activities during Black History Month (and beyond) to support the Black history makers of the future through an event series called Promoting Black Leadership Through Entrepreneurship
Read MoreElaine Brown is a member of our Community Research team, working on a number of research projects across London. In the second in our series introducing the Community Researchers, we meet Elaine and hear her story.
Read MoreRead and watch more about our journey over the last few months, in partnership with Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, in community research, where we are gathering insight on how residents in Lambeth and Southwark are adapting and coping during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreMeet Marcus, a community researcher and learn more about his upbringing, motivations and convictions when it comes to digital transformation, socio-economic trends, community research, creating equity and more.
Read MoreTowards the tail end of September this year, I was afforded the opportunity to lead a local surveying team based in Vauxhall on a data collection project on air pollution.
Read MoreCommunity research is an urgent necessity in the COVID era, but how can we move from exploitative extraction of local knowledge to genuinely collaborative research?
We sat down with Paul and Daniel to hear their thoughts on community research methods, why research that’s led by the community is vital and how they envision this kind of research model growing over time.
Read MoreWe sat down with one of our surveyors (soon to become a trained Community Researcher), Marcus Tayebwa, to hear a little bit about his experience working on the project, why he thinks it’s important for community members to be involved in local interventions from design to implementation, and how he thinks institutions can avoid falling into the ‘saviour dynamic’ with the people they support.
Read MoreCheck out a cool blog from our friends at Gehl on food and the build environment
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