Reports and publications
Social Innovation in Health and Social Care: State-of-the-Art Summary
6 August 2015 | Authors: Amy Kwan, Rachel Schon, ,
The state-of-the-art report provides a policy field specific study on social innovation and the related governance system. It addresses recent challenges, corresponding practice fields of social innovation as well as illustrating social innovation projects. Thereby, the European, national and global
Social Innovation in Health and Social Care: Case Study Results
6 December 2016 | Authors: Charlotte Heales,
Health and social care is a policy field that is ripe for social innovation because of the significant problems being faced by health systems the world over and because of the significant differences between different health and social care contexts.
Social Impact Investment: The opportunity and challenge of Social Impact Bonds
1 March 2011 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan, Mhairi Aylott, Neil Reeder,
The spending squeeze in the UK from 2008 onwards means that there is more interest than ever, both in tools to achieve greater value, and ones that can tap new sources of finance for social goals. Different approaches to investment
Social Impact Bonds in Health
1 October 2010 | Authors: John Loder,
Social Impact Bonds are a potentially very powerful instrument for creating change and improvement. This short paper describes the basic structure of social impact bonds, why they might be useful for the public sector, and some of the issues that
Social Housing Allocations and Family Networks
18 October 2005 | Authors:
The Young Foundation, together with the Institute of Community Studies before it, have long been interested in the effects of housing allocation policies on family life. But with the emergence of credit-based letting systems, this whole area is now changing
Social frontiers: the next edge of social innovation research (call for proposals)
5 January 2013 | Authors:
Research papers for a major new international social research conference. This is a call for abstracts for research papers that go beyond the current state of knowledge on social innovation, identify and address gaps in knowledge and generate hypotheses that
Social cohesion in Barking and Dagenham: participatory approaches
9 December 2020 | Authors: Jana Tauschinski,
A report reflecting interviews, storytelling events, innovation workshops and creative research in Barking and Dagenham, 2018-2020
Sinking and Swimming: Understanding Britain’s Unmet Needs
1 December 2009 | Authors:
This is a study of who is sinking and who is swimming in Britain today. Based on new analysis of statistical data, case studies, surveys and hundreds of conversations with people across the country, the study shows where the most
Signing on: Experiences of worklessness in Birmingham
1 December 2010 | Authors: Corinne Cordes, Sarah Hewes, Vicki Sellick, Will Norman,
This report maps the journeys of Birmingham residents seeking work in the second half of 2010 and reflecting on their experiences, makes recommendations for how employability support could be changed in the future – both to improve the rate of
SI-DRIVE Policy Decleration: Social Innovation on the Rise – Challenges for a Future Innovation Policy
14 November 2017 | Authors:
The SI-DRIVE Policy Declaration sets a framework for unfolding the potential of social innovations within a new innovation paradigm and a new innovation policy. It’s about fostering democracy and participation, economy, digital and ecological transformation. And it’s about the capacity
Shrinking to Grow? The Urban Regeneration Challenge in Leipzig and Manchester
18 September 2004 | Authors:
Leipzig and Manchester are superficially very different cities. Leipzig’s Communist government ran down its industrial base, which almost disappeared after German reunification. Manchester, one of the world’s oldest industrial cities, suffered no such fate. Yet these cities’ history and condition
Share to Know: Furthering peer-to-peer and collaborative learning methods
16 February 2017 | Authors: Louise Foreman, Tobias Stapf,
Share to Know was a European exchange project that aims to further the use of peer-to-peer learning methodologies by educational institutions and other organisations/individuals working with young people. The exchange took place between three peer-to-peer learning practitioners from the United