Advancing ideas and evidence

In Stoke-on-Trent, we carried out a large-scale community listening exercise, engaging more than 1,300 residents in their everyday environments such as markets, cafés, parks, pubs, community centres and places of worship, to understand their lived experiences and the real drivers of local tension. The findings informed ten practical priorities, helping shape Stoke-on-Trent's new social cohesion strategy. 

Under the flagship research programme we led with the UK National Security Secretariat, we examined the changing nature of identity-based harms across the UK and Europe. Combining high-level convening, national polling, frontline engagement and international fieldwork, involving more than 250 experts, we produced a clear, multi-level diagnosis of risk, alongside actionable recommendations. 

Since 2015, our atrocity prevention programme has worked to strengthen how the UK predicts and prevents mass atrocities. Through research and briefings for government, parliament and civil society, we make the case for embedding 'prevention thinking' across policy, and for a dedicated national strategy, connecting agendas too often treated as unrelated. 

Commissioned by London Resilience, we coordinate the London Resilience Equalities Partnership, which brings equalities groups into the heart of the capital's emergency planning. Shaped by our consultation with 80 equalities and resilience stakeholders, it ensures the needs of marginalised communities inform how London prepares for and responds to crises.