Programme Lead, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
Saffron leads a long-term research and innovation programme about sustainable prosperity in East London at UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity. She convenes the London Prosperity Board, a partnership between UCL, government, businesses and communities, to rethink what prosperity means for London’s neighbourhoods.
Saffron led The Young Foundation’s work on communities for several years before establishing Social Life, a social enterprise set up by The Young Foundation in 2012 to become a specialist centre of research about the social life of communities.
She is an anthropologist with a long-term interest in examining how communities are affected by regeneration.