Communities in Control: Real people, real power

9.07.08
Uprising Leadership Programme included in Communities in Control White Paper
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Living and Community

Living and Community13.06.08
Call for architects to take lead in accommodating UK's ageing population
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Michael Young Memorial Lecture 2008

Michael Heseltine16.07.08
Lord Michael Heseltine: The Vision of Canary Wharf: Past, present and future
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The Local Wellbeing Conference

Wellbeing conference09.09.08
Public Wellbeing: Local action making national change
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Introduction

Our research focuses on contemporary life and changing needs in urban and rural communities, drawing on direct observation and ethnography. Current projects include a major exercise to map Britain's unmet needs; research on the dynamics of far right extremism and belonging; and thinking of new ways to reinvigorate political parties.

The team's work is structured around six key themes: Social Needs; Social Innovation; Civic and Political Engagement; Belonging and Integration; Cities and Lifecycles.

*Mapping Britain's Needs

Mapping Britain's Needs is a major research-based exercise to profile the most pressing unmet needs in communities across Britain funded by the Commission on Unclaimed Assetsoutstretched hand

*Mapping Rural Needs in Britain and Ireland

Mapping Rural Needs in Britain and Ireland The Young Foundation has been commissioned to create an holistic map of Britain and Ireland’s rural social needsCountryside scene

*Positional Goods

Positional Goods A project designed to understand modern trends in material consumption, celebrity lifestyles and ‘luxury fever’ as well as the slow decline in happiness levels.Luxury car

*Innovation, Justice and Youth

Innovation, Justice and Youth A programme of work looking at ways of cutting youth offending, to include analysis, assessments of current projects and developing new alternatives.Crime

*Scaling Up

Scaling up Current research projects are investigating how innovations can be replicated and scaled up and what makes localities innovativeBee in a flower

*Reinvigorating Political Parties

Reinvigorating Political Parties This new report – backed by a major new Ipsos/MORI poll – warns against ‘insider’s stitch up on party funding’; calls for reversal of a 20 year trendUplifted people on the beach

*Extremism

Extremism Our work on far right extremism in Britain aims to understand the risk factors and drivers of far right behaviour and to support and suggest practical steps to counteracting its appeal.Barbed wire

*First Political Memory

First Political Memory This project aims to reconnect people’s lives with politics and decision making institutions by encouraging us to think back through our own historiesProtest march

*Operation Black Vote evaluation

Operation Black Vote evaluation The Young Foundation were asked to carry out an evaluation of Operation Black Vote's 'MP Shadow Scheme' on behalf of the Electoral CommissionLots of voting hands

*Cities in Transition

Cities in Transition The diversity balancing act in rapidly-changing urban areas: a case study approach for Birmingham, Marseilles, Los Angeles and Toronto.City street with streaking car lights

*Belonging

Belonging A new programme primarily using ethnographic tools to understand people’s feelings of belonging and their construction of single and multiple identities.One raspberry in a bunch of blueberries

*Maslaha

Maslaha A web based project that will support Muslims facing the dilemmas of everyday by drawing together insights from young people, services providers and academics.Maslaha

*Polynet

Polynet How do businesses communicate in the 'global mega city'?  London, Paris, Frankfurt and other European cities reveal their connectivities in this EUR 2.4 million study.People waiting on the Tokyo Metro

*European Baby Boomer Generation

European Baby Boomer Generation This research examines the behaviour, values and attitudes of European men and women born between 1944 and 1954 Family standing in the shape of a house
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