Tania Carregha
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An emerging research strategy for civic universities
Repository entry 1 December 2025
This agenda outlines the Institute for Community Studies’ approach to research and evidence generation for the NCIA programme. It shares our process of working with four co-commissioning panels to develop priority research topic areas that explore the conditions required to support universities in making a positive contribution in the their place.
Civic universities and climate education
Repository entry 1 January 2025
A review of literature and evidence, alongside case study examples, to understand the state of climate education in England.
Healthy universities, people and places
Repository entry 1 December 2024
A review exploring how universities can contribute to student, staff, and local community wellbeing.
Shaping sustainable universities
Repository entry 1 December 2024
This report explores how universities can contribute to a just transition to net zero by reducing carbon emissions, sharing knowledge, and supporting local initiatives.
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.
Our journey to net zero: Understanding household and community participation in the UK’s transition to a greener future
Repository entry 1 February 2024
Our new report warns the government’s existing net zero transition policies are likely to make the poor poorer, and push struggling communities further into deprivation and exclusion.
This research – which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and developed with the University of Leeds, University of York and Trinity College Dublin – f…
Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero
Repository entry 1 October 2023
The policy area addressing the climate crisis in the UK, ‘Net Zero’, will affect many aspects of people’s everyday life. Given that policy builds from where we are now, which for some (post austerity, and mid cost of living crisis) means in financial crisis, there is work to be done in enabling a socially inclusive Net Zero. In this artic…
Volunteering Journeys
Repository entry 1 September 2022
A rapid evidence review from the Institute for Community Studies, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to explore young people’s experiences of, and attitudes to, volunteering.
Volunteering Journeys examines how young people perceive and experience the UK’s current volunteering ‘offer’, and how it cou…
The role of HEIs in the climate action agenda
Repository entry 1 June 2022
This report considers the role of Higher Education Institutions in the climate action agenda. It explores how universities are responding to the ‘net zero’ challenge, how they are protecting and preparing places and communities from climate impacts, and how they might extend a ‘civic’ approach that works in partnership with other local …