Come and join our team! Looking for a new junior researcher/project support. Great opportunity to develop your skills and experience in built environment research 🏡🏢🏛️🏙️ social-life.co/news/post/new_… Deadline 5pm Monday 12th February

Looking forward to speaking at the Festival of Place next Monday 26th at 12pm, talking about how we've been capturing the social impact of estate regeneration and why this matters. Festival of Place The Developer #SocialImpact Tickets here bit.ly/3vJKPUo

Back in Old Oak to today to start thinking about how we understand the impact of ⁦OldOakParkRoyal⁩ public space projects.

Social Life taking to the digital stage at Festival of Life: Social Impact bit.ly/3vJKPUo #SocialImpac #Regeneration

Important lessons learned with Social Life at #SocialImpact bit.ly/3vJKPUo

Join our fieldteam! we're looking for people with experience of engagement, outreach or research in local communities. Closing date Monday 11th 5pm. social-life.co/news/post/join…

I don't think anyone took the politics of naming more seriously than Fulham Metropolitan Borough Council: Clem Attlee Court, begun 1955. (Hammersmith and Fulham must have kept up the tradition after 1965.)

Such an influential man nytimes.com/2024/03/27/bus…

Today Locality are launching our research findings on the role that community anchors play in using access to arts and the environment to address health inequalities read my short blog about this here - wp.me/p1zwQG-G9y thank you to our other partner Social Life

🔎JUST LAUNCHED: Ignoring local community groups is harming our health, says new report by Locality Leeds Beckett & Social Life #PowerOfCommunity Read more👇 locality.org.uk/resources/adap…

Really good to see this out and thanks to Alison Haskins Pembroke House St. Paul's Trust ACCM (UK) for their support #inequality #artandhealth New Local Helen Chatterjee Research and Enterprise at Leeds Beckett Social Life Merron Simpson @CHWAlliance Nancy Hey ✨ Donna Hall ✨

So happy this is now out in the world - our research with Leeds Beckett and Locality highlights how important local community organisations are to tackling health inequalities. When we ignore these we risk harm to health.

Here's the robust case study about HalifaxOpportunities's community garden The Outback which describes the contribution to individual & collective wellbeing via social & green connections. Commissioners please note! Locality Leeds Beckett Social Life bit.ly/442T2A7

“If the NHS is to make progress on reducing inequality the important contribution made be community anchor organisations must be better understood and supported" – Prof Mark Gamsu New research by Leeds Beckett, Locality and Social Life: locality.org.uk/resources/adap…

During February - April we ran a series of workshops about elements of the planning system. We now have a series of short video guides that you can watch to find out more about planning and the responsibilities of the different arms of government. A 🧵

Thanks for highlighting this ListentoLocals I’m really interested in thinking through/testing how this could work. Any potential collaborators out there?

"The #placemaking approach – is about joined up thinking, addressing the place before the discipline & breaking down silos. It is about a way of doing things as much, if not more, than the physical result at the end." Jen Heal: linkedin.com/pulse/placemak… #PlacemakingWalesCharter

James Riley Point at the Carpenters Estate will be retrofitted to Passivhaus standards This is what we should do with aging tower blocks, not demolish them!!! specificationonline.co.uk/articles/2024-…

“Although we did not set out to focus on neighborhood-scale interventions, we found that the examples offering the most encouraging results [in advancing equitable resilience to climate change] all had some neighborhood focus,” Zachary Lamb & Lawrence Vale ingentaconnect.com/content/alex/b…

Heritage highlight of the day: The Battle of Cable Street mural in Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, commemorates the defeat of fascist marchers by the people of East London in October 1936. Painted by Dave Binnington, Paul Butler, Ray Walker and Desmond Rochfort between 1979-83.