Jess Redmond
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Finding and using data to understand university impact
Repository entry 1 October 2025
This synthesis of articles shares our user-centred approach to co-designing dashboards with universities to support their civic activities.
Understanding Communities: Final insight report
Repository entry 1 September 2025
The Understanding Communities research programme was a collaboration between the British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation, exploring how local communities function and can improve people’s lives.
Civic universities, skills gaps, and university-FE collaborations
Repository entry 1 January 2025
A review recognising the potential for greater collaboration between universities and colleges and identifying a lack of evidence on this topic.
Healthy universities, people and places
Repository entry 1 December 2024
A review exploring how universities can contribute to student, staff, and local community wellbeing.
Society, culture and locally-connected universities
Repository entry 1 December 2024
Examining universities’ social and cultural contributions to their communities, discussing the impacts of student volunteering, and how universities are supporting local arts and culture.
Universities and ‘economic placemaking’
Repository entry 1 December 2024
This review highlights universities as drivers of local employment and spending, assessing the importance of supporting social mobility, graduate retention, and innovation.
Only Reconnect
Repository entry 1 February 2023
A report of the ‘Reconnection Summit’ that took place in October 2022. The summit was organised by the Institute for Community Studies andTPXImpact, in partnership with Engage Britain and its ‘Grassroots Advisory Network (a group of community activists and leaders from across the UK who act as advisors on the work of Engage Britain and identify…