Understanding the 9 million active neighbours of lockdown

The coronavirus crisis saw a huge movement of community activity and support. Immy Robinson, co-lead of the Relationships Project, shares their research about what made people come together. How we can support the different types of active neighbour with an ecology that enables community activity to thrive?
Doing digital arts differently: St. Helens Libraries and Ideas Alliance’s action research

Find out more about this “learning by doing” project, where the team worked collaboratively with artists, makers, library staff, residents and more to innovate and test ways to help digital arts thrive in St. Helens.
Talking about balancing belonging and freedom at work in Research Matters magazine

We answer some questions for the Social Research Association’s quarterly Research Matters magazine about our organisational structure as part of their look at business models for social research. Read the reprinted article here.
Co-Production Collective: a new co-pro community

It’s no secret that we’re big champions of co-production here at the Ideas Alliance. So when we heard about Co-Production Collective, a new co-produced community of co-producers, we just had to find out more!
Guest blog: Measures of wellbeing and impact – who decides?

Researchers Becky Seale and Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin share their perspectives on traditional measurement of community-based approaches to health and wellbeing.