Richard Harries

Associate Director, Institute for Community Studies

Richard is associate director of the Institute for Community Studies. He was previously a senior civil servant and deputy director of the independent think tank Reform.

He has extensive experience of research and policymaking in the public sector and third sector and has advised governments in Australia, Japan, Europe, Africa and the Middle East about various aspects of public service reform. He has published on a wide range of topics, including crime and criminal justice, deregulation, fiscal sustainability, philanthropy, social investment and impact evaluation.

Richard is a trustee of the Forces in Mind Trust and Caritas Social Action Network, and sits on the Advisory Councils of Volunteering Matters, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and Our Common Good. He is also a senior associate of the Power to Change Trust and a visiting senior fellow at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Contact information

richard.harries@icstudies.org.uk

Associate Director, Institute for Community Studies

Contact information

Contributions

Life within easy reach

Research and engagement to develop ’15-Minute Neighbourhoods’ in Waltham Forest

Getting beyond the jargon

The Civic Journey: Summary of emerging findings

Research Digest: What can quantitative approaches learn from The Beatles?

Valuing and enabling citizen science: lessons from the Citizen Science Exploration Grant programme

Research Digest: ‘Knowledge is NOT power’

Research Digest: Enough of the ‘grands projects’

Research digest: ‘Lessons in navigation’

Research digest: ‘Variety is the spice of life’

Research digest: ‘None of us is as smart as all of us’

London Civic Strength Index

Why don’t they ask us? The role of communities in levelling up

Community research

Social innovation