Elaine 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.
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Read 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.
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Meet 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.
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We’re proud that TSIP has recently been certified as a B Corporation - a quality mark for businesses that can prove they meet high social and environmental standards.
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Community research is an urgent necessity in the COVID era, but how can we move from exploitative extraction of local knowledge to genuinely collaborative research?
A remarkable body of research over the last decade has confirmed the importance and benefits of diversity and inclusion, and the need for social mobility more broadly. And yet, millions of people are still being left behind in the United Kingdom (UK). If the academic and policy literature isn’t enough to convince you or isn’t keepin’ it real – pick up, read and digest Darren McGarvey’s, Poverty Safari or Afua Hirsh’s Brit(ish).
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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.
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We are delighted to announce that Genevieve Laurier, current TSIP Director of Delivery and Impact, has been appointed as Managing Director
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The problem is not that young people don’t have what the creative and digital sectors need, the problem is that the sectors aren’t seeing what is there.
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In this short series of blogs we briefly introduce three of our biggest loves and three of our biggest worries, alternating between them. We’re reflecting critically on ourselves and our own work as much as anybody else’s: the worries we present are things that have concerned us about our own projects, as much as other organisations’.
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We 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.
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Check out a cool blog from our friends at Gehl on food and the build environment
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Executive Chair Stephen Bediako discusses the increasing need for true deliberative, participatory processes in democracy that value the power of inclusion and diversity - and encourages us to step up to make our voices heard.
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The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) and Shoreditch Trust are looking for a local Hackney resident to help conduct some community engagement work as part of an effort to build a Civic Innovation Hub in Hackney. This would be a part-time role, serving as an external consultant to help with delivery from February to early July 2019 with a budget of up to £5,500.
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‘Putting the pieces together: A practical guide to matched crowdfunding’ is aimed at funders that are interested in funding projects with the ‘crowd’ by awarding grants to projects that are crowdfunding. The report offers an overview of what matched crowdfunding is, who’s involved and different approaches along with insights and advice from experienced match funders, grantees and crowdfunding platforms. Click here to open the report.
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In the second of our series of citizen-led design workshops in Hackney, in early June young people, supported by innovators, local leaders and funders, set about designing, refining and prototyping applied solutions to issues they had identified in the local area.
Read MoreTSIP are delighted that their founder, Stephen Bediako, will be one of four judges on the judging panel at this year’s Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurs awards ceremony.
Read MoreLast week TSIP hosted a workshop in collaboration with Hackney Quest, HCVS, Shoreditch Trust and Young Hackney. The event, which was sponsored by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, is the first of a series of events which TSIP is planning in Hackney over the next few months in order to build a community of local people who want to work with us to set up London's first ever Civic Innovation Hub.
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