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Yorkshire and the Humber Policy Innovation Partnership

Lead Research Organisation: University of Leeds
Department Name: Leeds University Business School (LUBS)

Abstract

YPIP is a collaboration of University, public, private and third sector bodies in Yorkshire and the Humber. A key aim of YPIP is to incorporate and empower low-income, marginalised and/or spatially isolated communities in regional research and decision-making. YPIP will undertake a region-wide, three-year programme of inclusive, place-based, systems-based, solutions-focused activities. The programme will generate insights and solutions under the cross-cutting theme of communities in their places, delivered through three work packages: (i) data and informatics, (ii) inclusive growth, and (iii) living sustainably in a greener economy.

YPIP is facilitated by the unique existing Yorkshire and Humber academic policy engagement infrastructure (detailed in the geographical coverage section) comprising Yorkshire and Humber Councils [YHC], which brings together political leaders and chief executives of all local and combined authorities in the region, and Yorkshire Universities [YU], which brings together Vice Chancellors of all 12 Universities in the region. In a 2021 Memorandum of Understanding YHC and YU agreed to work together on sustainable and inclusive growth, which was operationalised in 2022 by establishing the Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network (Y-PERN.)

In its initial (6 months) 'phase-1' YPIP built on this infrastructure, in two important ways: firstly, strengthening the relations of YHC, YU and Y-PERN with one another; and secondly, partnering with the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission, (YHCC) and the Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Consortium (YHARC). These respectively bring together climate and health stakeholders and communities, for integrated regional-wide activity (for example YHCC's Regional Climate Action Plan embodies 50 cross-sector actions that have wide political support.)

Thus, YPIP stands on uniquely strong foundations of a multi-sectoral partnership infrastructure. YPIP will augment this infrastructure by developing additional regional structures and processes dedicated to empowering communities across the region, particularly low-income, marginalised and/or spatially isolated communities. YPIP will establish at regional scale: a Community Engagement Panel, a £1M Collaboration Fund and Panel, and an Office for Data Analytics, all supported by an accessible digital presence, the Yorkshire Engagement Portal. Facilitated by this infrastructure, YPIP will nurture collaborative activities and experimentation on novel forms of co-design and co-production addressing our chosen themes, evaluating 'what works' locally and what can be scaled up to regional policy innovations.

YPIP's vision, treats community, public, and business sectors as equal partners in co-designing policy innovations, enhancing long-term regional capacity, and mobilising communities' collaborative potential. YPIP will particularly focus on policy innovations which: (i) assure the quality and support the legitimacy of community-generated data; (ii) improve access of local policy and decision-makers to academic knowledge and expertise in our chosen themes; (iii) demonstrate scalability and replicability of local solutions.

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Description Emerging potential for helping local authorities solve their problems of working in isolation
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description Engaging local authorities in community engagement
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description Making a difference in the discussion of the WYCA growth plan
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Net Zero living in the region
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description YPIP Cross Cutting Theme: Communities In Their Places 
Organisation North Yorkshire County Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Communities in their Places' Cross-Cutting Theme was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The co-investigators of YPIP affiliated with the University of Hull and Timebank Hull and East Riding are responsible for implementing the CCT. This involves the recruitment and selection of the 24-member YPIP Community Panel - finished in early March 2025 - and the embedding of community engagement in each of the other 4 work packages. The activities of this work package are described below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an officer in the North Yorkshire County Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this workpackage reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Vision & Aims The CCT has a central connecting role within the YPIP project's architecture and is, thus, designated a cross-cutting theme (CCT) designed to undertake community capacity building and to inform the activities in each of YPIP's three work packages and governance. One of its core roles is to work in partnership with local communities to place community experts by experience as equal stakeholders alongside public sector, VCS, research and business stakeholders in the YPIP partnership. E.g By creating a Community Panel which reflects YH's diverse communities, prioritising those from marginalised social groups and spatial areas whose ideas and interests are underrepresented in policy areas of YPIP. Activities To build and position the community panel at the heart of YPIP governance structures so that community voice is embedded into decision-making across the programme. To embed community collaboration and community research within YPIP's three work packages. To undertake external outreach activities to connect, evidence and enhance community voice in local policymaking by building upon what works well and adding capacity. Outcomes Panel members will sit, alongside other stakeholders, on the Collaboration Fund and be part of its award funding decision making. Panel members will join the Operations Group to shape work package development. The Community Panel and wider community experience and voice will constitute the central focus of the CCT exemplars review, and the subsequent work with exemplar initiatives and the co-creation of collaborative spaces (in North Yorkshire, Hull and Sheffield/South Yorkshire). Panel members will sit on the YPIP Management group. The Panel will act as an advisory group to the YPIP programme. Routes to Impact Pathways to impact are not straight forward or linear, since we need to understand that there are both internal and external impacts for the CCT. Internal impacts are around how we work as a collaboration in partnership with the community panel. How this a testing bed for inclusive community practice in research and policy for the region. Other avenues for impact are: i) place-based around specific outreach activities and communities of practice which involve multiple stakeholders - communities, VCS, LA's and MCAs. Ii) Region wide scaled impacts which relate to lessons learnt from the YPIP CCT's review of exemplars of good practice and communities of practice in place. As well as developing and supporting a community Panel, the CCT will work collaboratively with panel members and local organisations and communities in Hull, North Yorkshire and Sheffield/South Yorkshire to: Review and drawing learning from examples of community-led action Work with 9 examples of this good practice - three in each of the 3 areas. Facilitate the coming together of local communities, voluntary and public sector organisations to build a collaborative space or community of practice to build change together (in each of the 3 areas).
Impact The Cross-Cutting Theme have the following update: Delivery on year 1 CCT milestones: Outreach and collaboration building with Councils, Combined authorities, VCFS and grassroots community organisations across the region. Recruitment and training of YPIP community panel doubling the membership from the 12 promised to 24. The community panel will provide a case-study in the effectiveness of this approach to introducing community voice into decisional processes. A review of exemplars of good practice in community led or partnered social action to identify the critical parameters that lead to effective empowerment of those with lived experience. The definition of 'exemplars' was co-designed with anchor community organisations in North Yorkshire, facilitated by North Yorkshire Council's Localities Team. We arrived on two definitions, differentiating between those that were initiated by a community and those that were initiated by a local authority or VCS: i) Community-led exemplars include: Where communities are taking an initiative to act on the needs of their local area around economic or environmental issues or other issues that are important to them. This can involve collaboration and connections to larger organisations or to local authorities, but the lead and initiative is being taken by the community themselves (community initiated, owned and controlled ii) Local authority or VCS initiated exemplars: Where the exemplar is initiated by council or VCS but is done so in partnership with communities and takes a community-led format. These involve communities being partners and thus part of defining & driving - and includes shared decision-making power. As with community-led the areas of focus can be economic, environmental or other important challenges. Initial outreach partnership building and preliminary identification of exemplars to study and draw learning about proven mechanisms for empowering those with lived experience.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Cross Cutting Theme: Communities In Their Places 
Organisation Timebanking UK
Department Timebank Hull and East Riding
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Communities in their Places' Cross-Cutting Theme was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The co-investigators of YPIP affiliated with the University of Hull and Timebank Hull and East Riding are responsible for implementing the CCT. This involves the recruitment and selection of the 24-member YPIP Community Panel - finished in early March 2025 - and the embedding of community engagement in each of the other 4 work packages. The activities of this work package are described below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an officer in the North Yorkshire County Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this workpackage reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Vision & Aims The CCT has a central connecting role within the YPIP project's architecture and is, thus, designated a cross-cutting theme (CCT) designed to undertake community capacity building and to inform the activities in each of YPIP's three work packages and governance. One of its core roles is to work in partnership with local communities to place community experts by experience as equal stakeholders alongside public sector, VCS, research and business stakeholders in the YPIP partnership. E.g By creating a Community Panel which reflects YH's diverse communities, prioritising those from marginalised social groups and spatial areas whose ideas and interests are underrepresented in policy areas of YPIP. Activities To build and position the community panel at the heart of YPIP governance structures so that community voice is embedded into decision-making across the programme. To embed community collaboration and community research within YPIP's three work packages. To undertake external outreach activities to connect, evidence and enhance community voice in local policymaking by building upon what works well and adding capacity. Outcomes Panel members will sit, alongside other stakeholders, on the Collaboration Fund and be part of its award funding decision making. Panel members will join the Operations Group to shape work package development. The Community Panel and wider community experience and voice will constitute the central focus of the CCT exemplars review, and the subsequent work with exemplar initiatives and the co-creation of collaborative spaces (in North Yorkshire, Hull and Sheffield/South Yorkshire). Panel members will sit on the YPIP Management group. The Panel will act as an advisory group to the YPIP programme. Routes to Impact Pathways to impact are not straight forward or linear, since we need to understand that there are both internal and external impacts for the CCT. Internal impacts are around how we work as a collaboration in partnership with the community panel. How this a testing bed for inclusive community practice in research and policy for the region. Other avenues for impact are: i) place-based around specific outreach activities and communities of practice which involve multiple stakeholders - communities, VCS, LA's and MCAs. Ii) Region wide scaled impacts which relate to lessons learnt from the YPIP CCT's review of exemplars of good practice and communities of practice in place. As well as developing and supporting a community Panel, the CCT will work collaboratively with panel members and local organisations and communities in Hull, North Yorkshire and Sheffield/South Yorkshire to: Review and drawing learning from examples of community-led action Work with 9 examples of this good practice - three in each of the 3 areas. Facilitate the coming together of local communities, voluntary and public sector organisations to build a collaborative space or community of practice to build change together (in each of the 3 areas).
Impact The Cross-Cutting Theme have the following update: Delivery on year 1 CCT milestones: Outreach and collaboration building with Councils, Combined authorities, VCFS and grassroots community organisations across the region. Recruitment and training of YPIP community panel doubling the membership from the 12 promised to 24. The community panel will provide a case-study in the effectiveness of this approach to introducing community voice into decisional processes. A review of exemplars of good practice in community led or partnered social action to identify the critical parameters that lead to effective empowerment of those with lived experience. The definition of 'exemplars' was co-designed with anchor community organisations in North Yorkshire, facilitated by North Yorkshire Council's Localities Team. We arrived on two definitions, differentiating between those that were initiated by a community and those that were initiated by a local authority or VCS: i) Community-led exemplars include: Where communities are taking an initiative to act on the needs of their local area around economic or environmental issues or other issues that are important to them. This can involve collaboration and connections to larger organisations or to local authorities, but the lead and initiative is being taken by the community themselves (community initiated, owned and controlled ii) Local authority or VCS initiated exemplars: Where the exemplar is initiated by council or VCS but is done so in partnership with communities and takes a community-led format. These involve communities being partners and thus part of defining & driving - and includes shared decision-making power. As with community-led the areas of focus can be economic, environmental or other important challenges. Initial outreach partnership building and preliminary identification of exemplars to study and draw learning about proven mechanisms for empowering those with lived experience.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Cross Cutting Theme: Communities In Their Places 
Organisation University of Hull
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Communities in their Places' Cross-Cutting Theme was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The co-investigators of YPIP affiliated with the University of Hull and Timebank Hull and East Riding are responsible for implementing the CCT. This involves the recruitment and selection of the 24-member YPIP Community Panel - finished in early March 2025 - and the embedding of community engagement in each of the other 4 work packages. The activities of this work package are described below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an officer in the North Yorkshire County Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this workpackage reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Vision & Aims The CCT has a central connecting role within the YPIP project's architecture and is, thus, designated a cross-cutting theme (CCT) designed to undertake community capacity building and to inform the activities in each of YPIP's three work packages and governance. One of its core roles is to work in partnership with local communities to place community experts by experience as equal stakeholders alongside public sector, VCS, research and business stakeholders in the YPIP partnership. E.g By creating a Community Panel which reflects YH's diverse communities, prioritising those from marginalised social groups and spatial areas whose ideas and interests are underrepresented in policy areas of YPIP. Activities To build and position the community panel at the heart of YPIP governance structures so that community voice is embedded into decision-making across the programme. To embed community collaboration and community research within YPIP's three work packages. To undertake external outreach activities to connect, evidence and enhance community voice in local policymaking by building upon what works well and adding capacity. Outcomes Panel members will sit, alongside other stakeholders, on the Collaboration Fund and be part of its award funding decision making. Panel members will join the Operations Group to shape work package development. The Community Panel and wider community experience and voice will constitute the central focus of the CCT exemplars review, and the subsequent work with exemplar initiatives and the co-creation of collaborative spaces (in North Yorkshire, Hull and Sheffield/South Yorkshire). Panel members will sit on the YPIP Management group. The Panel will act as an advisory group to the YPIP programme. Routes to Impact Pathways to impact are not straight forward or linear, since we need to understand that there are both internal and external impacts for the CCT. Internal impacts are around how we work as a collaboration in partnership with the community panel. How this a testing bed for inclusive community practice in research and policy for the region. Other avenues for impact are: i) place-based around specific outreach activities and communities of practice which involve multiple stakeholders - communities, VCS, LA's and MCAs. Ii) Region wide scaled impacts which relate to lessons learnt from the YPIP CCT's review of exemplars of good practice and communities of practice in place. As well as developing and supporting a community Panel, the CCT will work collaboratively with panel members and local organisations and communities in Hull, North Yorkshire and Sheffield/South Yorkshire to: Review and drawing learning from examples of community-led action Work with 9 examples of this good practice - three in each of the 3 areas. Facilitate the coming together of local communities, voluntary and public sector organisations to build a collaborative space or community of practice to build change together (in each of the 3 areas).
Impact The Cross-Cutting Theme have the following update: Delivery on year 1 CCT milestones: Outreach and collaboration building with Councils, Combined authorities, VCFS and grassroots community organisations across the region. Recruitment and training of YPIP community panel doubling the membership from the 12 promised to 24. The community panel will provide a case-study in the effectiveness of this approach to introducing community voice into decisional processes. A review of exemplars of good practice in community led or partnered social action to identify the critical parameters that lead to effective empowerment of those with lived experience. The definition of 'exemplars' was co-designed with anchor community organisations in North Yorkshire, facilitated by North Yorkshire Council's Localities Team. We arrived on two definitions, differentiating between those that were initiated by a community and those that were initiated by a local authority or VCS: i) Community-led exemplars include: Where communities are taking an initiative to act on the needs of their local area around economic or environmental issues or other issues that are important to them. This can involve collaboration and connections to larger organisations or to local authorities, but the lead and initiative is being taken by the community themselves (community initiated, owned and controlled ii) Local authority or VCS initiated exemplars: Where the exemplar is initiated by council or VCS but is done so in partnership with communities and takes a community-led format. These involve communities being partners and thus part of defining & driving - and includes shared decision-making power. As with community-led the areas of focus can be economic, environmental or other important challenges. Initial outreach partnership building and preliminary identification of exemplars to study and draw learning about proven mechanisms for empowering those with lived experience.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Leeds team: Principal Investigator and Core Team 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. Reported below are activities of the YPIP Core Team during Phase-2 (from February 2024 to present). The YPIP Core Team staff were hired in the period August-November 2024.
Collaborator Contribution The YPIP Core Team was assembled in the latter part of 2024, consisting of a project manager, a comms and engagement manager and an administrator. The team have successfully completed the ethical approval process, worked towards establishing a YPIP Theory of Change, set up an online presence for YPIP and a comms and engagement strategy, established excellent working relationships with each work package and their workplans, strategised extensively with the other Stage-2 LPIPS, and most notably have launched the Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund, on 3 February 2025: https://y-pern.org.uk/ciy-fund/
Impact Key updates from the YPIP Core Team since September 2024: 1) YPIP Ethical approval: The YPIP team successfully obtained the information required for ethics form each work package and submitted our ethical approval application in November 2024. Blanket ethical approval was obtained in December 2024, enabling the team to begin the assembly of key YPIP elements such as the Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund, the Community Panel and the Governance Board. 2) YPIP Theory of Change: The YPIP team has been working on establishing a Theory of Change since autumn 2024. There was an initial meeting in October 2024 with a facilitator, in which all YPIP colleagues contributed their ideas for the goals of the project, the situation, aims, inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts. In the following months, the YPIP Core Team collated all ideas and produced a final version of the situation, aims, inputs and activities for YPIP. The group then met again in January 2025 to discuss the final outputs, outcomes and impacts. The discussion was very productive and the Core Team have since produced a draft Theory of Change, which the Principal Investigator has shared with work package leads for their feedback. The aim is to pin down a final YPIP Theory of Change in spring 2025, to lead the direction of the remainder of the project. 3) YPIP WP workplans and progress: The YPIP team have started to meet regularly with each work package, to track progress and keep colleagues updated on core team activity, and have now received a confirmed work plan from each area, for the remainder of the project timeline. 4) LPIP relationship: YPIP has established good relationships with the other 3 LPIPs, with the PI meeting regularly with other PIs, and the project manager and comms and engagement manager meeting with their equivalents regularly also, to troubleshoot and share good practice. A rough schedule has also been agreed for LPIP meet ups in the different locations, the first of which took place in March 2025 in Cardiff. 5) 5) YPIP Comms and engagement strategy: The YPIP PI has become aware that reaching true regional scale will require that YPIP as a project build an accessible network of communication and exchange involving our four main themes (inclusive growth, sustainable living, data informatics, and community voice) among the local and combined authorities, business networks, community organizations, and universities in the region. We have to find optimal ways to link with as many of the others as we can manage. Therefore, the YPIP Comms and Engagement Manager has designed an engagement strategy for within and outside of YPIP, connecting with groups across the region to ensure YPIP is linking in and listening to as many areas as possible in such a large region. YPIP has successfully engaged a large number of groups and individuals, as visible in the Engagement section of Researchfish. The Comms and Engagement Manager has also set up "Keeping Partners Connected" meetings for YPIP colleagues to meet online and share updates and best practice. We have also set up a successful online presence for YPIP, including webpages and social media and an external newsletter. As of March 2025, there are 133 newsletter subscribers, 195 LinkedIn followers, 31 Bluesky followers, and 14 Facebook followers (all accounts set up end of January 2025). 6) YPIP Governance Board: The original plan for YPIP included plans to be overseen by a Governance Board with 20 members including: 3 academic leaders from Y&H universities; 3 officers from the Y&H public sector; 3 members from diverse Y&H business organisations; 1 member from the Y&H voluntary sector; 3 members of the Community Panel; 3 citizens; the executive director of YU; the academic director of Y-PERN; and YPIP's Principal Investigator and Non-Academic Director. . The Board includes members from all subregions. It will oversee YPIP's operations and exploit opportunities for partnerships and policy engagement with other UK regions. It will convene 3 times annually, with one face-to-face meeting. Governance Board invites went out in early March 2025 and were received extremely positively, with the majority accepted. Meetings will begin in May 2025. 7) The Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund: the largest task that the YPIP Core Team have been working on is the regional fund for further insights into our YPIP themes. In November, the PM shared an initial plan with the wider YPIP group, who fed back verbally and in writing over the following fortnight. In early December, the group were then asked to vote on a name for the fund, and the name 'Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund' (CIYF) was selected. Before the festive period, a 'Watch this space' announcement was then shared internally and externally across the region via various channels, announcing that the fund would launch in early 2025. The Core Team then liaised with University of Leeds finance colleagues to ascertain how the process of funding and onboarding could work, particularly the due diligence requirements and eligible organisations, given that the fund is aimed at community groups rather than universities. The team also worked with Co-Investigators to establish the structure of the fund, the scoring criteria and a suitable timeline. The PM liaised with each YPIP work package to obtain a description of the 5 CIY fund 'themes', aligning with each work package. Summaries of the themes are as follows: 1. Theme 1: Collecting and Utilising Community Data - aims to develop an integrated regional data hub for Yorkshire, which will enable communities to co-design effective policies for their places. 2. Theme 2: Good Work and Better Business -identifying opportunities for good work in sectors, developing more inclusive pathways for people who face barriers to get into the workforce, pivoting business support towards inclusion goals, supporting employers to recruit and retain employees with health conditions and disabilities 3. Theme 3: Culture and Creative Industries - community definitions of and participation in culture, widening education and employment pathways into the creative sector, business support models for the creative sector 4. Theme 4: Climate-ready Places - including lower-income and spatially-isolated communities who tend to be most at risk from climate change into the decision-making process, exploring retrofit in older buildings, understanding knowledge of green spaces and links to shaping policy 5. Theme 5: Communities In Their Places - community-led and co-designed research, environmental inequalities and the role of community voice, directly engage communities with policy makers and researchers to inform research led policy making - true community participation in the process After putting together the website, application forms, expression of interest forms, guidance text, and checking the final plan with the funder and finance, the fund was launched on 3 February 2025. During the application period, the YPIP Core Team have travelled across the region to promote the fund in person and deliver presentations and meet interested parties, for example in Sheffield, Halifax, Leeds and York. Meanwhile, each 'theme' team has hosted a webinar about their subject, to give further info and to answer questions from interested parties. The YPIP Core Team have also hosted 2 information webinars about the fund. The team have received over 200 enquiries to their inbox so far, and around 100 people attended each of the general information webinars, with attendance to the theme webinars also very good. Given the high number of enquiries, the team have also compiled useful FAQs for the fund. The fund has been extremely popular, and the review process is fully planned, and the review panel assembled, with training booked in for them in early April. The CIYF will close for applications on 23 March and it is hoped that projects will begin in June: https://y-pern.org.uk/ciy-fund/ 8) A note from the PI: YPIP Operational Groups and Management Groups and their evolving role in shaping the YPIP project: Word was received of the success of our proposal in the second week of January 2024. A 'launch meeting' was held in Westminster and in South London on 27-28 February. The first YPIP Operational Group meeting was held in March, followed by a Management Group meeting two weeks later. We stayed with this format until November 2024. Operational Group - the OG consists of Co-Investigators who are responsible for delivering work-packages (and the CCT). These meetings were designed to foster communication and idea-sharing across the WP's, especially in the initial months of the project when YPIP staff were not yet present. Essentially these OG meetings involved planning and thinking through how to implement the ideas initially sketched out in the 8-page proposal. Management Group - the MG consists of all members of the OG plus those Co-I's who are not responsible for implementing WPs. These other Co-I's break into two groups. Some of them (from the Arts universities or faculties, for example) are participating in the implementation of a WP, but in a less intensive way. And then five of these Co-I's are officers in local and combined authorities in Yorkshire and the Humber, and thus - as individuals with demanding full-time roles - have limited capacity, which means they primarily give guidance and advice. The MG is designed to provide that 'overview' of where things are in project planning and implementaion, so as to take advantage of the insight of these other co-I's in particular. This OG/MG approach made a virtue of necessity, in two senses: (1) Framing YPIP's core staff positions - a project manager, administrator, and communications/engagement manager - and winning approval for these positions at the funded Grades required weeks and even months of discussion with the Business School and University Human Resources (HR) offices. There is normally a lag between requesting a position and having it approved, in the University; this lag has increased recently due to staff shortages in HR. There is no accelerated path to position approval (though this has now been flagged as something to consider in future for time-limited projects with external partners). This 'lag' was extra long in the case of the third YPIP position, which represents a combination of skills that would normally be included in two distinct roles (this request was finally granted after considerable delay). (2) YPIP's PI Dymski was advised by the University of Leeds ethical approval office that given the unique architecture and activities of YPIP as a project - encompassing 12 universities, and involving multiple forms of data collection and interaction with external stakeholders - we were not permitted to initiate any of our planned activities or structures (such as soliciting the members of a Community Panel, building the operational guts of what we initially called the YPIP Collaboration Fund, or deciding on and inviting people onto a YPIP Governance Board. Given that implementation was stymied, the OG meetings and related 1-1 sessions between the PI and WP leaders focused on deciding the substance of what each WP would do. This permitted a deeper consideration during these months of 2024 of what each WP team wanted to actually accomplish. Then MG meetings would review this progress. The result was that the ambitions of the leaders of all three subject-area WPs - WP1 (data informatics), WP2A (inclusive business practices), WP2B (culture and the creative economy), and WP3 (climate change readiness) expanded and deepened relative to what was in the funded proposal (submitted on 19 September 2023). Ironically, the fact that WP content was being refined meant that final materials could not be submitted to the UoL ethical review panel. However, it was only when YPIP's core operational staff roster was filled out that WP leaders were induced to lock down their plans so these could be submitted to the ethical review panel. By mid-September, two of YPIP's core operational staff were on board. Having staff to steer YPIP had two important effects. First, the arrival of two of YPIP's three operational staff (by mid-September 2024) was the key to accelerating our progress toward ethical approval. This involved first defining a unique, multi-university approach to ethical approval - termed 'blanket ethical approval', and then being approved for this on 15 December 2024. Second, with ethical approval process in motion, and with YPIP's communications/engagement manager coming on board on 19 November, the WP leaders moved toward initiated the implementation phase of their activities. These developments led project members to realize that both OG and MG meetings were now fulfilling an 'overview and review of progress' role. There was, however, no agreed regular meeting for those implementing WPs to work out how they were going to implement the plans they'd now finalized. This was especially important because of the multi-university nature of each WP team. Anticipating having a full operational team in place, and with progress toward ethical approval solidly established, project members agreed in late 2024 to change our regular meetings pattern. On 27 October, we circulated a plan for shifting from the OG/MG project meeting approach to a different model, in which each WP would have monthly meetings, and these would alternate with MG meetings. The need for 'information sharing' across the project's WP's had been met in the first 7 OG meetings; now what was more crucial was to provide times for members of each WP to work together to implement their plans. This new approach was implemented as of December 2024. A list of OG and MG meetings (All OG meetings have been on Teams): OG mtg 1 - 27 March, 2-3:30 PM OG mtg 2 - 24 April, 4 - 5:30 PM OG mtg 3 - 29 May, 3:30 - 5 PM OG mtg 4 - 26 June, 3:30 - 5 PM OG mtg 5 - 24 July, 3:30 - 5 PM OG mtg 6 - 4 September, 3:30 - 5 PM OG mtg 7 - 2 October, 3:30 - 5 PM OG mtg 8 - 30 October, 3:30 - 5 PM OG mtg 9 - 27 November, 3:30 - 5 PM Management Group - MG mtg 1 - 11 April 10:30 AM - 12 PM MG mtg 2 - 9 May 10:30 AM - 12 PM MG mtg 3 - 13 June 10:30 AM - 12 PM MG mtg 4 - 18 July 10:30 AM - 12 PM MG mtg 5 - 15 August 10:30 AM - 12 PM MG mtg 6 - 12 September, 10:30 AM - 12 PM MG mtg 7 - 21 November, 10:30 AM - 12 PM MG mtg 8 - 12 December, 10:30 AM - 12 PM MG mtg 9 - 27 February, 10:30 AM - 12 PM Theory of Change Workshops: ToC workshop 1 - 17 October, 9:30 AM - 4 PM (Cloth Hall) - substitutes for a MG meeting ToC workshop 2 - 17 January, 10 AM - 4 PM (Cloth Hall) 9) YPIP Related academic events: These presentations all represent efforts to work out a new research model adequate to the challenge of providing a theoretical / academic basis for translating YPIP's project activities and ambitions into academic output. None of these are published papers as of yet; the members of the team have taken advantage of different presentational opportunities to work out the elements of a new model of 'bottom-up' inclusive, place-based development that takes into account the broader dynamics in the national and global economies. 1. 'The Information hierarchy and the limits of economic policy in the era of polycrises: Challenging the systematic invisibilization of bottom-up approaches,' Gary Dymski (University of Leeds) and Lesslie Valencia Vera (Open University), Association for Social Economics International Conference, University of Massachusetts-Boston, June 5-6 2024. 2. 'Varieties of heterodox policy engagement: Pathways, payoffs, forms, terrains,' Gary Dymski, Keynote address, 2024 Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, University of the West of England, 10-12 July 2024 3. Design principles for macro policies that support inequality-reducing place-based development, Gary Dymski, Session MR16: Macroeconomia do desenvolvimento e da distribuição de renda, 20th Diamantina Seminar, 15:45-17:15, 22 August 2024 4. Information hierarchies and policy transformation in Yorkshire: Rethinking devolution and productivity from the 'bottom up', Andy Brown*, Chau Chu*, Gary Dymski*, Gissell Huaccha*, and Lesslie Valencia** (*Leeds University Business School,**Open University). Session on 'Knowledge creation in finance,' International Conference of the Royal Geographic Society, London, 27-30 August 2024 5. Rethinking UK Regions' Productivity and Levelling Up Challenge from the 'Bottom Up': Polycrisis-Era Yorkshire as a System of Systems Gary Dymski and Gissell Huaccha, Leeds University Business School. 30th EuromemoAnnual Conference, 12-14 September 2024 University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. 6. The Information hierarchy and the limits of economic policy in the era of polycrises: Challenging the systematic invisibilisation of bottom-up approaches, Gary Dymski and Lesslie Valencia Vera. FMM (Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies) Conference, Berlin, 26 October 2024. 7. Information hierarchies and policy innovation in Yorkshire: Rethinking devolution and productivity from the 'bottom up' Gary Dymski and Lesslie Valencia. Huddersfield Business School- North Productivity Hub Research Centre February 19th, 2025. 8. Placing place-based research in post-hegemonic, post-Brexit Great Britain: Is there a spatial fix in an era of hypermobile global finance? To be presented at a Place-Based Research Workshop, LPIP Coordinating Hub, University of Birmingham, 11 April, 2025. 9. Rethinking the value of culture and creativity in regional renewal: insights from a Yorkshire-based policy innovation project. Gary Dymski, Andrew Brown, Kersten England, Gissell Huaccha, Lesslie Valencia. Regional Studies Association annual conference, Porto Portugal, 6-9 May, 2025. 10. Rethinking Regional Economic Development, Gary Dymski, Leeds University Business School - Research Theme Networking Session. Wednesday 11 June (14:00 - 16:00), St George Room, University House.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 1: Collecting and Utilising Community Data 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The co-investigator of YPIP affiliated with the University of Sheffield is responsible for implementing this work-package, which focuses on 'data informatics' and the challenge of making data drawn from the region and about the region available, in user friendly form, to communities and council officers and businesses. There are thus three phases to this WP. First is the creation of a data-base containing data from all the councils; this will be compiled in the Yorkshire and Humber Office of Data Analytics (YHODA) database. Second is the creation of a user-friendly interface for YHODA, which we term the Yorkshire Engagement Portal (YEP). Third is the creation of space within YHODA for community-generated data. The activities being undertaken are described below. Please note that one local authority (Leeds City Council) is mentioned as a collaborator for this work-package: this is because our project includes a co-investigator from Leeds City Council who is especially interested in the creation of YHODA and YEP. However, creating YHODA has required the collaboration of our WP1 team with officers from every local authority in the Yorkshire and Humber region, as well as communication and cooperation with officers of the region's four combined authorities.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 1, based at the University of Sheffield, aims to develop an integrated regional data hub for Yorkshire, which will enable communities to co-design effective policies for their places. They are working on: - Creating a regional information database and engagement hub. - Providing support and guidance for communities to navigate and analyse relevant local, regional and national data. - Better understanding what kinds of data and evidence best serve community needs.
Impact Work package 1 have the following update: Progress/Ongoing Activities for work package 1 at the University of Sheffield: In September 2024, we officially established the Yorkshire & the Humber Office for Data Analytics (YHODA) and hired all essential staff for the project (Data Analyst and Project Administrator). We are currently working toward launching the first version of the Yorkshire Engagement Portal (YEP; i.e., main output from Work Package 1) by the end of June 2025 and are currently on track to deliver by this date. Note that the development of YEP will continue past June of this year, so not all features of the platform may be 'final' at launch. For information, YEP is intended as an open platform that allows key stakeholders in Yorkshire and the Humber region to gain a holistic understanding of the social, economic, and environmental status of the region as well as the status of smaller geographical areas at the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level. This will be achieved via the production of data dashboards using Microsoft PowerBI that will then be available for use to regional stakeholders (e.g., local authorities, communities, etc.) to inform their decision-making. Here is a brief outline of some of the work we have, or are currently, undertaking: Continuous project planning, risk assessment, administrative infrastructure, and publicity strategy development. This includes connecting with relevant teams in the University of Sheffield that can offer support for our work, such as the IT Services and Research, Partnerships and Innovation teams. Branding development to ensure the longevity of project outputs and enable effective publicity and engagement going forward. Currently waiting for visual assets to be produced before implementing the branding for stakeholder-facing materials (including the YEP platform). Creation of server infrastructure and data management protocols to ensure compliance with data security regulations and the longevity of YEP past the project end date. Identifying, collating, transforming and analysing publicly available regional data sources. The bulk of this work has already been completed and feeds into the development of the data dashboards for YEP. Scoping and testing of methodologies and tools that would allow us to deliver the functionality that stakeholders desire from YEP (e.g., forecasting of economic indicators). Currently in the final stages of contracting a Sheffield-based web development team with relevant expertise to help us deliver YEP. Budgeting and planning for user group testing, a launch event for YEP, and a data analytics competition which will allow our stakeholders to provide additional input into the design and functionality of YEP and generate publicity for our platform. Established a Management Board and an Advisory Board (see 'Engagement Activities' for details). Outputs Research Tools & Methods We expect that once completed, YEP will offer a substantial improvement to research/data infrastructure and place Yorkshire and the Humber as one of the leading hubs for data-driven policy analysis and solidify YPIP's ongoing work to improve collaboration between universities, government agencies, and communities. YEP will provide stakeholders with information about the past, current, and future economic, social, and environmental vitality of the Yorkshire and the Humber region. We will achieve this by developing a Yorkshire Vitality Suite. The suite will consist of multiple elements that provide users with tools for policymaking and research, as follows: Observatory - allows for the comparison of two indicators (e.g., unemployment rate and cost of living) over time (e.g., 5 years) for all local authorities in the region. Industry - allows the user to understand the relative strength of different industries in a given local authority. Jobs - allows the user to understand how different job types have changed over time in a given local authority. Neighbourhoods - allows users to look at a single indicator (e.g., CO2 emissions) over time (e.g., 5 years) for a given neighbourhood in a local authority. Emphasis is on granularity (i.e., reduced geographical coverage that translates to more specific/local information). Forecasting - allows users to see how key indicators of social, economic, and environmental vitality are likely to change over time (e.g., next 5 years) across the region. Policy Simulator - allows users to assess the potential impact of implementing specific policies or investments in a given locality. For example, if housing spending increases, what is the impact on housing affordability. Research Datasets, Databases & Models As part of delivering YEP, we have already identified, mapped, and combined over 50 publicly available datasets from government, regional authorities, and other validated sources. This has allowed us to collate information that was previously scattered, difficult to access, or fragmented across multiple organisations. This work will help us to ensure that regional public data is consolidated into a single, accessible platform that allows policymakers, researchers, and community stakeholders to view, locate, and make sense of data about Yorkshire and the Humber in a more holistic fashion. From our chosen datasets, we have extrapolated over 40 indicators of the region's social, economic, and environmental vitality over multiple years. We have also mapped the granularity level of our chosen datasets and indicators. In order to extend our work beyond what is already available, we are in the process of evaluating approaches to producing analytic insights at the neighbourhood level as this was identified as particularly valuable by our stakeholders in local authorities. This will enable policymakers to more easily understand local trends and better tailor spending and policies to their constituents, thus increasing the value of our project's outputs. As we recognise the importance of making high-quality analytic insights more accessible, we are in the process of scoping and testing tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) that allow us to incorporate text-based insight alongside more traditional visualisations of data (e.g., scatterplots). For example, providing future users with a text description of changes over time for a given indicator and/or an explanation of how values and indicators should be interpreted. We have already directly consulted some of our stakeholders regarding the accessibility of dashboards and will continue exploring options for increased accessibility via formalised user testing as we move toward meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 1: Collecting and Utilising Community Data 
Organisation University of Sheffield
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The co-investigator of YPIP affiliated with the University of Sheffield is responsible for implementing this work-package, which focuses on 'data informatics' and the challenge of making data drawn from the region and about the region available, in user friendly form, to communities and council officers and businesses. There are thus three phases to this WP. First is the creation of a data-base containing data from all the councils; this will be compiled in the Yorkshire and Humber Office of Data Analytics (YHODA) database. Second is the creation of a user-friendly interface for YHODA, which we term the Yorkshire Engagement Portal (YEP). Third is the creation of space within YHODA for community-generated data. The activities being undertaken are described below. Please note that one local authority (Leeds City Council) is mentioned as a collaborator for this work-package: this is because our project includes a co-investigator from Leeds City Council who is especially interested in the creation of YHODA and YEP. However, creating YHODA has required the collaboration of our WP1 team with officers from every local authority in the Yorkshire and Humber region, as well as communication and cooperation with officers of the region's four combined authorities.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 1, based at the University of Sheffield, aims to develop an integrated regional data hub for Yorkshire, which will enable communities to co-design effective policies for their places. They are working on: - Creating a regional information database and engagement hub. - Providing support and guidance for communities to navigate and analyse relevant local, regional and national data. - Better understanding what kinds of data and evidence best serve community needs.
Impact Work package 1 have the following update: Progress/Ongoing Activities for work package 1 at the University of Sheffield: In September 2024, we officially established the Yorkshire & the Humber Office for Data Analytics (YHODA) and hired all essential staff for the project (Data Analyst and Project Administrator). We are currently working toward launching the first version of the Yorkshire Engagement Portal (YEP; i.e., main output from Work Package 1) by the end of June 2025 and are currently on track to deliver by this date. Note that the development of YEP will continue past June of this year, so not all features of the platform may be 'final' at launch. For information, YEP is intended as an open platform that allows key stakeholders in Yorkshire and the Humber region to gain a holistic understanding of the social, economic, and environmental status of the region as well as the status of smaller geographical areas at the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level. This will be achieved via the production of data dashboards using Microsoft PowerBI that will then be available for use to regional stakeholders (e.g., local authorities, communities, etc.) to inform their decision-making. Here is a brief outline of some of the work we have, or are currently, undertaking: Continuous project planning, risk assessment, administrative infrastructure, and publicity strategy development. This includes connecting with relevant teams in the University of Sheffield that can offer support for our work, such as the IT Services and Research, Partnerships and Innovation teams. Branding development to ensure the longevity of project outputs and enable effective publicity and engagement going forward. Currently waiting for visual assets to be produced before implementing the branding for stakeholder-facing materials (including the YEP platform). Creation of server infrastructure and data management protocols to ensure compliance with data security regulations and the longevity of YEP past the project end date. Identifying, collating, transforming and analysing publicly available regional data sources. The bulk of this work has already been completed and feeds into the development of the data dashboards for YEP. Scoping and testing of methodologies and tools that would allow us to deliver the functionality that stakeholders desire from YEP (e.g., forecasting of economic indicators). Currently in the final stages of contracting a Sheffield-based web development team with relevant expertise to help us deliver YEP. Budgeting and planning for user group testing, a launch event for YEP, and a data analytics competition which will allow our stakeholders to provide additional input into the design and functionality of YEP and generate publicity for our platform. Established a Management Board and an Advisory Board (see 'Engagement Activities' for details). Outputs Research Tools & Methods We expect that once completed, YEP will offer a substantial improvement to research/data infrastructure and place Yorkshire and the Humber as one of the leading hubs for data-driven policy analysis and solidify YPIP's ongoing work to improve collaboration between universities, government agencies, and communities. YEP will provide stakeholders with information about the past, current, and future economic, social, and environmental vitality of the Yorkshire and the Humber region. We will achieve this by developing a Yorkshire Vitality Suite. The suite will consist of multiple elements that provide users with tools for policymaking and research, as follows: Observatory - allows for the comparison of two indicators (e.g., unemployment rate and cost of living) over time (e.g., 5 years) for all local authorities in the region. Industry - allows the user to understand the relative strength of different industries in a given local authority. Jobs - allows the user to understand how different job types have changed over time in a given local authority. Neighbourhoods - allows users to look at a single indicator (e.g., CO2 emissions) over time (e.g., 5 years) for a given neighbourhood in a local authority. Emphasis is on granularity (i.e., reduced geographical coverage that translates to more specific/local information). Forecasting - allows users to see how key indicators of social, economic, and environmental vitality are likely to change over time (e.g., next 5 years) across the region. Policy Simulator - allows users to assess the potential impact of implementing specific policies or investments in a given locality. For example, if housing spending increases, what is the impact on housing affordability. Research Datasets, Databases & Models As part of delivering YEP, we have already identified, mapped, and combined over 50 publicly available datasets from government, regional authorities, and other validated sources. This has allowed us to collate information that was previously scattered, difficult to access, or fragmented across multiple organisations. This work will help us to ensure that regional public data is consolidated into a single, accessible platform that allows policymakers, researchers, and community stakeholders to view, locate, and make sense of data about Yorkshire and the Humber in a more holistic fashion. From our chosen datasets, we have extrapolated over 40 indicators of the region's social, economic, and environmental vitality over multiple years. We have also mapped the granularity level of our chosen datasets and indicators. In order to extend our work beyond what is already available, we are in the process of evaluating approaches to producing analytic insights at the neighbourhood level as this was identified as particularly valuable by our stakeholders in local authorities. This will enable policymakers to more easily understand local trends and better tailor spending and policies to their constituents, thus increasing the value of our project's outputs. As we recognise the importance of making high-quality analytic insights more accessible, we are in the process of scoping and testing tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) that allow us to incorporate text-based insight alongside more traditional visualisations of data (e.g., scatterplots). For example, providing future users with a text description of changes over time for a given indicator and/or an explanation of how values and indicators should be interpreted. We have already directly consulted some of our stakeholders regarding the accessibility of dashboards and will continue exploring options for increased accessibility via formalised user testing as we move toward meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 2a: Good Work and Better Business 
Organisation Sheffield Hallam University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Inclusive Business Practices' Work Package (2A) was agreed as one of two strands of our 'inclusive growth' activities. In the course of designing our Phase-2 activities, it became clear that we needed a broader approach to this strand of our work than was envisioned in our Phase-2 proposal. The co-investigator of YPIP affiliated with Sheffield Hallam University is responsible for implementing this expanded Work Package, with activities as specified below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an officer in the Wakefield Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this workpackage reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 2a, based at Sheffield Hallam University, aims to reduce inequalities through supporting inclusive business practices. Two workshops held in summer 2023, alongside multiple conversations with stakeholders from across sectors, identified the twin themes of 'good work' and 'better business' as core priorities in terms of how businesses can be incentivised to support the 'good work' agenda. There was widespread consensus on the need to address issues with job quality (e.g. low pay, insecurity, poor conditions, and limited progression) and business practices (e.g. recruitment processes that exclude some groups) in ways that benefit both employers and employees. Subsequent discussions with stakeholders highlighted four potential thematic research priorities: Foundational Economy: Identifying opportunities for good work in sectors in the Foundational Economy where low-wage, low-productivity work is prevalent. Inclusive recruitment: Using lived experience to develop more inclusive pathways into sustained work for groups facing disadvantage in the labour market. Business support: Exploring opportunities to pivot business support and investment towards inclusion goals alongside productivity and growth. Work and health: Supporting employers to recruit and retain employees with health conditions and disabilities. A third workshop was held in autumn 2024 with representatives from organisations across South Yorkshire. The aim was to specify challenges and opportunities for YPIP to support innovation around the good work agenda in ways that align with stakeholders' strategic priorities and could influence local or national policy and practice. For each of the four themes we highlight key issues raised by attendees of the autumn 2024 workshop, followed by opportunities for YPIP to support partners in addressing challenges. This process identified two 'centres of gravity' for YPIP activities in the next phase of the work package: - place based approaches to building a good work ecosystem - good work in the foundational economy
Impact Work package 2a have the following update: Our work to date has been orientated around a series of 1-2-1 conversations and workshops with a range of stakeholders across the region to ensure that our work package activities are responsive to the priorities of partners. On 14th November we hosted a one-day workshop at SHU focusing on 4 themes that had emerged in the phase 1 YPIP consultations: Foundational Economy: Identifying opportunities for good work in sectors in the Foundational Economy where low wage, low productivity work is prevalent. Inclusive recruitment: Using lived experience to develop more inclusive pathways into sustained work for groups facing disadvantages in the labour market. Business support: Exploring opportunities to embed inclusion goals in business support and investment. Work and health: Supporting employers to recruit and retain employees with health conditions and disabilities Breakout groups for each theme discussed specific challenges and opportunities for collaboration and support from YPIP to enable innovation around the good work agenda in ways that aligned with stakeholders' priorities and had the potential to influence local or national policy and practice. The following organisations were represented at the workshop. Infinite Skills CiC Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield City Council - Employment & Skills Service Doncaster Chamber Sheffield University Management School South Yorkshire Institute of Technology HLM Architects Skills Street SYMCA South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority SADACCA (Sheffield And District African Caribbean Community Association) TUC Yorkshire and the Humber Business Doncaster Barnsley Council Sheffield Social Enterprise Network Doncaster Council We have also held over 30 one-to-one meetings with organisations across sectors to identify opportunities to collaborate and support partners' activities around the good work/better business agenda (see table below). Building on workshops , we drafted a broad research proposal in December 2024 for each of the four themes that the YPIP team could undertake [** can provide a copy] This proposal was sent out to all organisations who attended the workshops for further comment and refinement. We have subsequently used this feedback to draft a more detailed research plan [**can provide a copy] that will be circulated for final comment in w/b 10/03/25. We anticipate fieldwork will commence shortly after. We are also undertaken an evidence review with a particular focus on the potential business benefits of good work and more inclusive business practices (draft due early April). This will be supplemented with a short (c2 pages) and accessible briefing on the business case for engaging with the good work agenda. Finally, Close collaboration with the YPERN team based at Sheffield Hallam University continues. This has led to the development of proposal for exploring opportunities for supporting good work in the Foundational Economy with a focus on the social care sector. The research is being developed jointly with Sheffield City Council. The work will initially be delivered using YPERN capacity but there is scope to expand and transfer this across to YPIP as YPERN winds down. It demonstrates cross-project collaboration as the ideas for research were developed though YPIP consultation activities, but YPERN provides an opportunity to draw on additional resource to deliver activities earlier than would be possible though YPIP as the YPIP intend to focus on inclusive recruitment and business support themes in the next six months.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 2a: Good Work and Better Business 
Organisation Wakefield Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Inclusive Business Practices' Work Package (2A) was agreed as one of two strands of our 'inclusive growth' activities. In the course of designing our Phase-2 activities, it became clear that we needed a broader approach to this strand of our work than was envisioned in our Phase-2 proposal. The co-investigator of YPIP affiliated with Sheffield Hallam University is responsible for implementing this expanded Work Package, with activities as specified below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an officer in the Wakefield Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this workpackage reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 2a, based at Sheffield Hallam University, aims to reduce inequalities through supporting inclusive business practices. Two workshops held in summer 2023, alongside multiple conversations with stakeholders from across sectors, identified the twin themes of 'good work' and 'better business' as core priorities in terms of how businesses can be incentivised to support the 'good work' agenda. There was widespread consensus on the need to address issues with job quality (e.g. low pay, insecurity, poor conditions, and limited progression) and business practices (e.g. recruitment processes that exclude some groups) in ways that benefit both employers and employees. Subsequent discussions with stakeholders highlighted four potential thematic research priorities: Foundational Economy: Identifying opportunities for good work in sectors in the Foundational Economy where low-wage, low-productivity work is prevalent. Inclusive recruitment: Using lived experience to develop more inclusive pathways into sustained work for groups facing disadvantage in the labour market. Business support: Exploring opportunities to pivot business support and investment towards inclusion goals alongside productivity and growth. Work and health: Supporting employers to recruit and retain employees with health conditions and disabilities. A third workshop was held in autumn 2024 with representatives from organisations across South Yorkshire. The aim was to specify challenges and opportunities for YPIP to support innovation around the good work agenda in ways that align with stakeholders' strategic priorities and could influence local or national policy and practice. For each of the four themes we highlight key issues raised by attendees of the autumn 2024 workshop, followed by opportunities for YPIP to support partners in addressing challenges. This process identified two 'centres of gravity' for YPIP activities in the next phase of the work package: - place based approaches to building a good work ecosystem - good work in the foundational economy
Impact Work package 2a have the following update: Our work to date has been orientated around a series of 1-2-1 conversations and workshops with a range of stakeholders across the region to ensure that our work package activities are responsive to the priorities of partners. On 14th November we hosted a one-day workshop at SHU focusing on 4 themes that had emerged in the phase 1 YPIP consultations: Foundational Economy: Identifying opportunities for good work in sectors in the Foundational Economy where low wage, low productivity work is prevalent. Inclusive recruitment: Using lived experience to develop more inclusive pathways into sustained work for groups facing disadvantages in the labour market. Business support: Exploring opportunities to embed inclusion goals in business support and investment. Work and health: Supporting employers to recruit and retain employees with health conditions and disabilities Breakout groups for each theme discussed specific challenges and opportunities for collaboration and support from YPIP to enable innovation around the good work agenda in ways that aligned with stakeholders' priorities and had the potential to influence local or national policy and practice. The following organisations were represented at the workshop. Infinite Skills CiC Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield City Council - Employment & Skills Service Doncaster Chamber Sheffield University Management School South Yorkshire Institute of Technology HLM Architects Skills Street SYMCA South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority SADACCA (Sheffield And District African Caribbean Community Association) TUC Yorkshire and the Humber Business Doncaster Barnsley Council Sheffield Social Enterprise Network Doncaster Council We have also held over 30 one-to-one meetings with organisations across sectors to identify opportunities to collaborate and support partners' activities around the good work/better business agenda (see table below). Building on workshops , we drafted a broad research proposal in December 2024 for each of the four themes that the YPIP team could undertake [** can provide a copy] This proposal was sent out to all organisations who attended the workshops for further comment and refinement. We have subsequently used this feedback to draft a more detailed research plan [**can provide a copy] that will be circulated for final comment in w/b 10/03/25. We anticipate fieldwork will commence shortly after. We are also undertaken an evidence review with a particular focus on the potential business benefits of good work and more inclusive business practices (draft due early April). This will be supplemented with a short (c2 pages) and accessible briefing on the business case for engaging with the good work agenda. Finally, Close collaboration with the YPERN team based at Sheffield Hallam University continues. This has led to the development of proposal for exploring opportunities for supporting good work in the Foundational Economy with a focus on the social care sector. The research is being developed jointly with Sheffield City Council. The work will initially be delivered using YPERN capacity but there is scope to expand and transfer this across to YPIP as YPERN winds down. It demonstrates cross-project collaboration as the ideas for research were developed though YPIP consultation activities, but YPERN provides an opportunity to draw on additional resource to deliver activities earlier than would be possible though YPIP as the YPIP intend to focus on inclusive recruitment and business support themes in the next six months.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 2b: Culture and the Creative Industry 
Organisation Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. This theme, 'Culture and the Creative Economy', was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The non-academic co-investigator of YPIP - originally affiliated with the Yorkshire and Humber Councils, and now affiliated with the Bradford2025 City of Culture - is responsible for coordinating this work-package, which focuses on the role of culture and of the creative economy. The scope of this work package has been considerably widened and deepened compared to what was contained in the Phase-2 proposal, taking advantage of the many co-investigators available to work with this WP and of the energy and activities associated with Bradford2025. The activities being undertaken are described below.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 2b, Culture and the Creative Industry: Focusing on how culture has the power to transform our lives, whether we are in an audience or involved in creative activity directly, and increasing. Many people have limited access to cultural activity, not all communities' cultures are recognised or valued and investment and engagement in cultural education and skills programmes has declined significantly in recent years. Earning a living as a creative is often precarious and insecure. The ambition of workplan 2(b) is to: Reaffirm the significance of culture in our lives and its importance to the prosperity of the UK. Look at the practical steps which can be taken to ensure everyone has the opportunity to take part in culture, whether they follow their passion and use their talents as a creative, paid/unpaid, or just love to watch, to listen, to read and enjoy. The aim of this work package is to support and promote inclusive and sustainable growth in the creative economy. The aim will be pursued through undertaking of policy engaged research involving 'actors' within the creative economy ecosystem and academics with relevant backgrounds. The prime focus will be upon Bradford due to its designation as the UK city of culture in 2025 and its commitment to grow the creative economy with a particular emphasis on opportunities for minoritised communities. However relevant insights will be drawn from across Yorkshire and the insights and policy proposals produced will seek to influence thinking in a multi-level governance system i.e. at local/CA/ region and national level.
Impact Work package 2b has 3 strands, looking at community definitions of and participation in culture, widening education and employment pathways into the creative sector, and business support models for the creative sector. In early 2025, the work package have solidified the workplan for each of these strands. 1) As of March 2025, our University of Bradford Co-Investigator has developed a plan for a programme of work focused on understanding the needs and expectations of creative entrepreneurs and supporting sustainable creative industries in Yorkshire. The aim of this is to explore the needs, attitudes, and responses of creative entrepreneurs to the growth and sustainability of their operations and understand the creative industry ecosystem in the Yorkshire region to provide guidance to policy makers seeking to support the growth and development of the creative sector and the development of creative entrepreneurs. The objectives identified are: To map the ecosystem of support for the creative industries and creative entrepreneurs in and across the Yorkshire region and understand the nature, strength and challenges of the existing offer in this regard. To explore creative entrepreneur needs and expectations in respect of ensuring the sustainability and creating potential for growth in the operations and activities. To develop and trial potential workshops and tools for supporting creative entrepreneurs and creative sector firms. UoB ethics approval is being completed at present with a plan to begin formal data collection from next month. This will involve a multiple methods approach (with separate plans for each of the three objectives identified above). The research approach seeks to incorporate creative methodologies for the research and interventions undertaken in order to engage and interact with the creative sector in meaningful ways. 2) As of March 2025, our York St John Co-Investigator has had conversations and planning meetings with groups related to YPIP research, specifically The Leap and Mind the Gap. Outcome of these are planning project proposals in relation to YPIP, in the form of an event in Sept with Mind the Gap and Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund (CIYF) application with The Leap. Connected to YPIP, the Institute for Social Justice at YSJ hosted an event with our VCSE partners focusing on impact - 23 attendees. Included mentioning the CIYF. 3) As of March 2025 our Leeds Arts University Co-Investigator has the following presentations planned: Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning returns: Revealing the entanglements of cultural ecologies and adult learning journeys within the City of Leeds at the 3rd Artist-Teacher in Adult Community Learning Conference, on Saturday 22nd March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Disrupting the pipeline: Employability skills and adult learning in the creative arts presented at Learning careers, higher education and workplaces. Supporting transitions in times of complexity. ESREA Rennes, France 26-29 March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning Returns: A Space for Self-Identity, Community and Resistance, at Learning and Skills Research Network National Conference 2025, at the College of West Anglia.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 2b: Culture and the Creative Industry 
Organisation Leeds College of Art
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. This theme, 'Culture and the Creative Economy', was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The non-academic co-investigator of YPIP - originally affiliated with the Yorkshire and Humber Councils, and now affiliated with the Bradford2025 City of Culture - is responsible for coordinating this work-package, which focuses on the role of culture and of the creative economy. The scope of this work package has been considerably widened and deepened compared to what was contained in the Phase-2 proposal, taking advantage of the many co-investigators available to work with this WP and of the energy and activities associated with Bradford2025. The activities being undertaken are described below.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 2b, Culture and the Creative Industry: Focusing on how culture has the power to transform our lives, whether we are in an audience or involved in creative activity directly, and increasing. Many people have limited access to cultural activity, not all communities' cultures are recognised or valued and investment and engagement in cultural education and skills programmes has declined significantly in recent years. Earning a living as a creative is often precarious and insecure. The ambition of workplan 2(b) is to: Reaffirm the significance of culture in our lives and its importance to the prosperity of the UK. Look at the practical steps which can be taken to ensure everyone has the opportunity to take part in culture, whether they follow their passion and use their talents as a creative, paid/unpaid, or just love to watch, to listen, to read and enjoy. The aim of this work package is to support and promote inclusive and sustainable growth in the creative economy. The aim will be pursued through undertaking of policy engaged research involving 'actors' within the creative economy ecosystem and academics with relevant backgrounds. The prime focus will be upon Bradford due to its designation as the UK city of culture in 2025 and its commitment to grow the creative economy with a particular emphasis on opportunities for minoritised communities. However relevant insights will be drawn from across Yorkshire and the insights and policy proposals produced will seek to influence thinking in a multi-level governance system i.e. at local/CA/ region and national level.
Impact Work package 2b has 3 strands, looking at community definitions of and participation in culture, widening education and employment pathways into the creative sector, and business support models for the creative sector. In early 2025, the work package have solidified the workplan for each of these strands. 1) As of March 2025, our University of Bradford Co-Investigator has developed a plan for a programme of work focused on understanding the needs and expectations of creative entrepreneurs and supporting sustainable creative industries in Yorkshire. The aim of this is to explore the needs, attitudes, and responses of creative entrepreneurs to the growth and sustainability of their operations and understand the creative industry ecosystem in the Yorkshire region to provide guidance to policy makers seeking to support the growth and development of the creative sector and the development of creative entrepreneurs. The objectives identified are: To map the ecosystem of support for the creative industries and creative entrepreneurs in and across the Yorkshire region and understand the nature, strength and challenges of the existing offer in this regard. To explore creative entrepreneur needs and expectations in respect of ensuring the sustainability and creating potential for growth in the operations and activities. To develop and trial potential workshops and tools for supporting creative entrepreneurs and creative sector firms. UoB ethics approval is being completed at present with a plan to begin formal data collection from next month. This will involve a multiple methods approach (with separate plans for each of the three objectives identified above). The research approach seeks to incorporate creative methodologies for the research and interventions undertaken in order to engage and interact with the creative sector in meaningful ways. 2) As of March 2025, our York St John Co-Investigator has had conversations and planning meetings with groups related to YPIP research, specifically The Leap and Mind the Gap. Outcome of these are planning project proposals in relation to YPIP, in the form of an event in Sept with Mind the Gap and Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund (CIYF) application with The Leap. Connected to YPIP, the Institute for Social Justice at YSJ hosted an event with our VCSE partners focusing on impact - 23 attendees. Included mentioning the CIYF. 3) As of March 2025 our Leeds Arts University Co-Investigator has the following presentations planned: Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning returns: Revealing the entanglements of cultural ecologies and adult learning journeys within the City of Leeds at the 3rd Artist-Teacher in Adult Community Learning Conference, on Saturday 22nd March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Disrupting the pipeline: Employability skills and adult learning in the creative arts presented at Learning careers, higher education and workplaces. Supporting transitions in times of complexity. ESREA Rennes, France 26-29 March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning Returns: A Space for Self-Identity, Community and Resistance, at Learning and Skills Research Network National Conference 2025, at the College of West Anglia.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 2b: Culture and the Creative Industry 
Organisation Leeds College of Music
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. This theme, 'Culture and the Creative Economy', was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The non-academic co-investigator of YPIP - originally affiliated with the Yorkshire and Humber Councils, and now affiliated with the Bradford2025 City of Culture - is responsible for coordinating this work-package, which focuses on the role of culture and of the creative economy. The scope of this work package has been considerably widened and deepened compared to what was contained in the Phase-2 proposal, taking advantage of the many co-investigators available to work with this WP and of the energy and activities associated with Bradford2025. The activities being undertaken are described below.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 2b, Culture and the Creative Industry: Focusing on how culture has the power to transform our lives, whether we are in an audience or involved in creative activity directly, and increasing. Many people have limited access to cultural activity, not all communities' cultures are recognised or valued and investment and engagement in cultural education and skills programmes has declined significantly in recent years. Earning a living as a creative is often precarious and insecure. The ambition of workplan 2(b) is to: Reaffirm the significance of culture in our lives and its importance to the prosperity of the UK. Look at the practical steps which can be taken to ensure everyone has the opportunity to take part in culture, whether they follow their passion and use their talents as a creative, paid/unpaid, or just love to watch, to listen, to read and enjoy. The aim of this work package is to support and promote inclusive and sustainable growth in the creative economy. The aim will be pursued through undertaking of policy engaged research involving 'actors' within the creative economy ecosystem and academics with relevant backgrounds. The prime focus will be upon Bradford due to its designation as the UK city of culture in 2025 and its commitment to grow the creative economy with a particular emphasis on opportunities for minoritised communities. However relevant insights will be drawn from across Yorkshire and the insights and policy proposals produced will seek to influence thinking in a multi-level governance system i.e. at local/CA/ region and national level.
Impact Work package 2b has 3 strands, looking at community definitions of and participation in culture, widening education and employment pathways into the creative sector, and business support models for the creative sector. In early 2025, the work package have solidified the workplan for each of these strands. 1) As of March 2025, our University of Bradford Co-Investigator has developed a plan for a programme of work focused on understanding the needs and expectations of creative entrepreneurs and supporting sustainable creative industries in Yorkshire. The aim of this is to explore the needs, attitudes, and responses of creative entrepreneurs to the growth and sustainability of their operations and understand the creative industry ecosystem in the Yorkshire region to provide guidance to policy makers seeking to support the growth and development of the creative sector and the development of creative entrepreneurs. The objectives identified are: To map the ecosystem of support for the creative industries and creative entrepreneurs in and across the Yorkshire region and understand the nature, strength and challenges of the existing offer in this regard. To explore creative entrepreneur needs and expectations in respect of ensuring the sustainability and creating potential for growth in the operations and activities. To develop and trial potential workshops and tools for supporting creative entrepreneurs and creative sector firms. UoB ethics approval is being completed at present with a plan to begin formal data collection from next month. This will involve a multiple methods approach (with separate plans for each of the three objectives identified above). The research approach seeks to incorporate creative methodologies for the research and interventions undertaken in order to engage and interact with the creative sector in meaningful ways. 2) As of March 2025, our York St John Co-Investigator has had conversations and planning meetings with groups related to YPIP research, specifically The Leap and Mind the Gap. Outcome of these are planning project proposals in relation to YPIP, in the form of an event in Sept with Mind the Gap and Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund (CIYF) application with The Leap. Connected to YPIP, the Institute for Social Justice at YSJ hosted an event with our VCSE partners focusing on impact - 23 attendees. Included mentioning the CIYF. 3) As of March 2025 our Leeds Arts University Co-Investigator has the following presentations planned: Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning returns: Revealing the entanglements of cultural ecologies and adult learning journeys within the City of Leeds at the 3rd Artist-Teacher in Adult Community Learning Conference, on Saturday 22nd March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Disrupting the pipeline: Employability skills and adult learning in the creative arts presented at Learning careers, higher education and workplaces. Supporting transitions in times of complexity. ESREA Rennes, France 26-29 March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning Returns: A Space for Self-Identity, Community and Resistance, at Learning and Skills Research Network National Conference 2025, at the College of West Anglia.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 2b: Culture and the Creative Industry 
Organisation Leeds Trinity University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. This theme, 'Culture and the Creative Economy', was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The non-academic co-investigator of YPIP - originally affiliated with the Yorkshire and Humber Councils, and now affiliated with the Bradford2025 City of Culture - is responsible for coordinating this work-package, which focuses on the role of culture and of the creative economy. The scope of this work package has been considerably widened and deepened compared to what was contained in the Phase-2 proposal, taking advantage of the many co-investigators available to work with this WP and of the energy and activities associated with Bradford2025. The activities being undertaken are described below.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 2b, Culture and the Creative Industry: Focusing on how culture has the power to transform our lives, whether we are in an audience or involved in creative activity directly, and increasing. Many people have limited access to cultural activity, not all communities' cultures are recognised or valued and investment and engagement in cultural education and skills programmes has declined significantly in recent years. Earning a living as a creative is often precarious and insecure. The ambition of workplan 2(b) is to: Reaffirm the significance of culture in our lives and its importance to the prosperity of the UK. Look at the practical steps which can be taken to ensure everyone has the opportunity to take part in culture, whether they follow their passion and use their talents as a creative, paid/unpaid, or just love to watch, to listen, to read and enjoy. The aim of this work package is to support and promote inclusive and sustainable growth in the creative economy. The aim will be pursued through undertaking of policy engaged research involving 'actors' within the creative economy ecosystem and academics with relevant backgrounds. The prime focus will be upon Bradford due to its designation as the UK city of culture in 2025 and its commitment to grow the creative economy with a particular emphasis on opportunities for minoritised communities. However relevant insights will be drawn from across Yorkshire and the insights and policy proposals produced will seek to influence thinking in a multi-level governance system i.e. at local/CA/ region and national level.
Impact Work package 2b has 3 strands, looking at community definitions of and participation in culture, widening education and employment pathways into the creative sector, and business support models for the creative sector. In early 2025, the work package have solidified the workplan for each of these strands. 1) As of March 2025, our University of Bradford Co-Investigator has developed a plan for a programme of work focused on understanding the needs and expectations of creative entrepreneurs and supporting sustainable creative industries in Yorkshire. The aim of this is to explore the needs, attitudes, and responses of creative entrepreneurs to the growth and sustainability of their operations and understand the creative industry ecosystem in the Yorkshire region to provide guidance to policy makers seeking to support the growth and development of the creative sector and the development of creative entrepreneurs. The objectives identified are: To map the ecosystem of support for the creative industries and creative entrepreneurs in and across the Yorkshire region and understand the nature, strength and challenges of the existing offer in this regard. To explore creative entrepreneur needs and expectations in respect of ensuring the sustainability and creating potential for growth in the operations and activities. To develop and trial potential workshops and tools for supporting creative entrepreneurs and creative sector firms. UoB ethics approval is being completed at present with a plan to begin formal data collection from next month. This will involve a multiple methods approach (with separate plans for each of the three objectives identified above). The research approach seeks to incorporate creative methodologies for the research and interventions undertaken in order to engage and interact with the creative sector in meaningful ways. 2) As of March 2025, our York St John Co-Investigator has had conversations and planning meetings with groups related to YPIP research, specifically The Leap and Mind the Gap. Outcome of these are planning project proposals in relation to YPIP, in the form of an event in Sept with Mind the Gap and Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund (CIYF) application with The Leap. Connected to YPIP, the Institute for Social Justice at YSJ hosted an event with our VCSE partners focusing on impact - 23 attendees. Included mentioning the CIYF. 3) As of March 2025 our Leeds Arts University Co-Investigator has the following presentations planned: Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning returns: Revealing the entanglements of cultural ecologies and adult learning journeys within the City of Leeds at the 3rd Artist-Teacher in Adult Community Learning Conference, on Saturday 22nd March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Disrupting the pipeline: Employability skills and adult learning in the creative arts presented at Learning careers, higher education and workplaces. Supporting transitions in times of complexity. ESREA Rennes, France 26-29 March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning Returns: A Space for Self-Identity, Community and Resistance, at Learning and Skills Research Network National Conference 2025, at the College of West Anglia.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 2b: Culture and the Creative Industry 
Organisation University of Bradford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. This theme, 'Culture and the Creative Economy', was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The non-academic co-investigator of YPIP - originally affiliated with the Yorkshire and Humber Councils, and now affiliated with the Bradford2025 City of Culture - is responsible for coordinating this work-package, which focuses on the role of culture and of the creative economy. The scope of this work package has been considerably widened and deepened compared to what was contained in the Phase-2 proposal, taking advantage of the many co-investigators available to work with this WP and of the energy and activities associated with Bradford2025. The activities being undertaken are described below.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 2b, Culture and the Creative Industry: Focusing on how culture has the power to transform our lives, whether we are in an audience or involved in creative activity directly, and increasing. Many people have limited access to cultural activity, not all communities' cultures are recognised or valued and investment and engagement in cultural education and skills programmes has declined significantly in recent years. Earning a living as a creative is often precarious and insecure. The ambition of workplan 2(b) is to: Reaffirm the significance of culture in our lives and its importance to the prosperity of the UK. Look at the practical steps which can be taken to ensure everyone has the opportunity to take part in culture, whether they follow their passion and use their talents as a creative, paid/unpaid, or just love to watch, to listen, to read and enjoy. The aim of this work package is to support and promote inclusive and sustainable growth in the creative economy. The aim will be pursued through undertaking of policy engaged research involving 'actors' within the creative economy ecosystem and academics with relevant backgrounds. The prime focus will be upon Bradford due to its designation as the UK city of culture in 2025 and its commitment to grow the creative economy with a particular emphasis on opportunities for minoritised communities. However relevant insights will be drawn from across Yorkshire and the insights and policy proposals produced will seek to influence thinking in a multi-level governance system i.e. at local/CA/ region and national level.
Impact Work package 2b has 3 strands, looking at community definitions of and participation in culture, widening education and employment pathways into the creative sector, and business support models for the creative sector. In early 2025, the work package have solidified the workplan for each of these strands. 1) As of March 2025, our University of Bradford Co-Investigator has developed a plan for a programme of work focused on understanding the needs and expectations of creative entrepreneurs and supporting sustainable creative industries in Yorkshire. The aim of this is to explore the needs, attitudes, and responses of creative entrepreneurs to the growth and sustainability of their operations and understand the creative industry ecosystem in the Yorkshire region to provide guidance to policy makers seeking to support the growth and development of the creative sector and the development of creative entrepreneurs. The objectives identified are: To map the ecosystem of support for the creative industries and creative entrepreneurs in and across the Yorkshire region and understand the nature, strength and challenges of the existing offer in this regard. To explore creative entrepreneur needs and expectations in respect of ensuring the sustainability and creating potential for growth in the operations and activities. To develop and trial potential workshops and tools for supporting creative entrepreneurs and creative sector firms. UoB ethics approval is being completed at present with a plan to begin formal data collection from next month. This will involve a multiple methods approach (with separate plans for each of the three objectives identified above). The research approach seeks to incorporate creative methodologies for the research and interventions undertaken in order to engage and interact with the creative sector in meaningful ways. 2) As of March 2025, our York St John Co-Investigator has had conversations and planning meetings with groups related to YPIP research, specifically The Leap and Mind the Gap. Outcome of these are planning project proposals in relation to YPIP, in the form of an event in Sept with Mind the Gap and Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund (CIYF) application with The Leap. Connected to YPIP, the Institute for Social Justice at YSJ hosted an event with our VCSE partners focusing on impact - 23 attendees. Included mentioning the CIYF. 3) As of March 2025 our Leeds Arts University Co-Investigator has the following presentations planned: Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning returns: Revealing the entanglements of cultural ecologies and adult learning journeys within the City of Leeds at the 3rd Artist-Teacher in Adult Community Learning Conference, on Saturday 22nd March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Disrupting the pipeline: Employability skills and adult learning in the creative arts presented at Learning careers, higher education and workplaces. Supporting transitions in times of complexity. ESREA Rennes, France 26-29 March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning Returns: A Space for Self-Identity, Community and Resistance, at Learning and Skills Research Network National Conference 2025, at the College of West Anglia.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 2b: Culture and the Creative Industry 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. This theme, 'Culture and the Creative Economy', was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The non-academic co-investigator of YPIP - originally affiliated with the Yorkshire and Humber Councils, and now affiliated with the Bradford2025 City of Culture - is responsible for coordinating this work-package, which focuses on the role of culture and of the creative economy. The scope of this work package has been considerably widened and deepened compared to what was contained in the Phase-2 proposal, taking advantage of the many co-investigators available to work with this WP and of the energy and activities associated with Bradford2025. The activities being undertaken are described below.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 2b, Culture and the Creative Industry: Focusing on how culture has the power to transform our lives, whether we are in an audience or involved in creative activity directly, and increasing. Many people have limited access to cultural activity, not all communities' cultures are recognised or valued and investment and engagement in cultural education and skills programmes has declined significantly in recent years. Earning a living as a creative is often precarious and insecure. The ambition of workplan 2(b) is to: Reaffirm the significance of culture in our lives and its importance to the prosperity of the UK. Look at the practical steps which can be taken to ensure everyone has the opportunity to take part in culture, whether they follow their passion and use their talents as a creative, paid/unpaid, or just love to watch, to listen, to read and enjoy. The aim of this work package is to support and promote inclusive and sustainable growth in the creative economy. The aim will be pursued through undertaking of policy engaged research involving 'actors' within the creative economy ecosystem and academics with relevant backgrounds. The prime focus will be upon Bradford due to its designation as the UK city of culture in 2025 and its commitment to grow the creative economy with a particular emphasis on opportunities for minoritised communities. However relevant insights will be drawn from across Yorkshire and the insights and policy proposals produced will seek to influence thinking in a multi-level governance system i.e. at local/CA/ region and national level.
Impact Work package 2b has 3 strands, looking at community definitions of and participation in culture, widening education and employment pathways into the creative sector, and business support models for the creative sector. In early 2025, the work package have solidified the workplan for each of these strands. 1) As of March 2025, our University of Bradford Co-Investigator has developed a plan for a programme of work focused on understanding the needs and expectations of creative entrepreneurs and supporting sustainable creative industries in Yorkshire. The aim of this is to explore the needs, attitudes, and responses of creative entrepreneurs to the growth and sustainability of their operations and understand the creative industry ecosystem in the Yorkshire region to provide guidance to policy makers seeking to support the growth and development of the creative sector and the development of creative entrepreneurs. The objectives identified are: To map the ecosystem of support for the creative industries and creative entrepreneurs in and across the Yorkshire region and understand the nature, strength and challenges of the existing offer in this regard. To explore creative entrepreneur needs and expectations in respect of ensuring the sustainability and creating potential for growth in the operations and activities. To develop and trial potential workshops and tools for supporting creative entrepreneurs and creative sector firms. UoB ethics approval is being completed at present with a plan to begin formal data collection from next month. This will involve a multiple methods approach (with separate plans for each of the three objectives identified above). The research approach seeks to incorporate creative methodologies for the research and interventions undertaken in order to engage and interact with the creative sector in meaningful ways. 2) As of March 2025, our York St John Co-Investigator has had conversations and planning meetings with groups related to YPIP research, specifically The Leap and Mind the Gap. Outcome of these are planning project proposals in relation to YPIP, in the form of an event in Sept with Mind the Gap and Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund (CIYF) application with The Leap. Connected to YPIP, the Institute for Social Justice at YSJ hosted an event with our VCSE partners focusing on impact - 23 attendees. Included mentioning the CIYF. 3) As of March 2025 our Leeds Arts University Co-Investigator has the following presentations planned: Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning returns: Revealing the entanglements of cultural ecologies and adult learning journeys within the City of Leeds at the 3rd Artist-Teacher in Adult Community Learning Conference, on Saturday 22nd March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Disrupting the pipeline: Employability skills and adult learning in the creative arts presented at Learning careers, higher education and workplaces. Supporting transitions in times of complexity. ESREA Rennes, France 26-29 March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning Returns: A Space for Self-Identity, Community and Resistance, at Learning and Skills Research Network National Conference 2025, at the College of West Anglia.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 2b: Culture and the Creative Industry 
Organisation York St John University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. This theme, 'Culture and the Creative Economy', was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The non-academic co-investigator of YPIP - originally affiliated with the Yorkshire and Humber Councils, and now affiliated with the Bradford2025 City of Culture - is responsible for coordinating this work-package, which focuses on the role of culture and of the creative economy. The scope of this work package has been considerably widened and deepened compared to what was contained in the Phase-2 proposal, taking advantage of the many co-investigators available to work with this WP and of the energy and activities associated with Bradford2025. The activities being undertaken are described below.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 2b, Culture and the Creative Industry: Focusing on how culture has the power to transform our lives, whether we are in an audience or involved in creative activity directly, and increasing. Many people have limited access to cultural activity, not all communities' cultures are recognised or valued and investment and engagement in cultural education and skills programmes has declined significantly in recent years. Earning a living as a creative is often precarious and insecure. The ambition of workplan 2(b) is to: Reaffirm the significance of culture in our lives and its importance to the prosperity of the UK. Look at the practical steps which can be taken to ensure everyone has the opportunity to take part in culture, whether they follow their passion and use their talents as a creative, paid/unpaid, or just love to watch, to listen, to read and enjoy. The aim of this work package is to support and promote inclusive and sustainable growth in the creative economy. The aim will be pursued through undertaking of policy engaged research involving 'actors' within the creative economy ecosystem and academics with relevant backgrounds. The prime focus will be upon Bradford due to its designation as the UK city of culture in 2025 and its commitment to grow the creative economy with a particular emphasis on opportunities for minoritised communities. However relevant insights will be drawn from across Yorkshire and the insights and policy proposals produced will seek to influence thinking in a multi-level governance system i.e. at local/CA/ region and national level.
Impact Work package 2b has 3 strands, looking at community definitions of and participation in culture, widening education and employment pathways into the creative sector, and business support models for the creative sector. In early 2025, the work package have solidified the workplan for each of these strands. 1) As of March 2025, our University of Bradford Co-Investigator has developed a plan for a programme of work focused on understanding the needs and expectations of creative entrepreneurs and supporting sustainable creative industries in Yorkshire. The aim of this is to explore the needs, attitudes, and responses of creative entrepreneurs to the growth and sustainability of their operations and understand the creative industry ecosystem in the Yorkshire region to provide guidance to policy makers seeking to support the growth and development of the creative sector and the development of creative entrepreneurs. The objectives identified are: To map the ecosystem of support for the creative industries and creative entrepreneurs in and across the Yorkshire region and understand the nature, strength and challenges of the existing offer in this regard. To explore creative entrepreneur needs and expectations in respect of ensuring the sustainability and creating potential for growth in the operations and activities. To develop and trial potential workshops and tools for supporting creative entrepreneurs and creative sector firms. UoB ethics approval is being completed at present with a plan to begin formal data collection from next month. This will involve a multiple methods approach (with separate plans for each of the three objectives identified above). The research approach seeks to incorporate creative methodologies for the research and interventions undertaken in order to engage and interact with the creative sector in meaningful ways. 2) As of March 2025, our York St John Co-Investigator has had conversations and planning meetings with groups related to YPIP research, specifically The Leap and Mind the Gap. Outcome of these are planning project proposals in relation to YPIP, in the form of an event in Sept with Mind the Gap and Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund (CIYF) application with The Leap. Connected to YPIP, the Institute for Social Justice at YSJ hosted an event with our VCSE partners focusing on impact - 23 attendees. Included mentioning the CIYF. 3) As of March 2025 our Leeds Arts University Co-Investigator has the following presentations planned: Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning returns: Revealing the entanglements of cultural ecologies and adult learning journeys within the City of Leeds at the 3rd Artist-Teacher in Adult Community Learning Conference, on Saturday 22nd March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Disrupting the pipeline: Employability skills and adult learning in the creative arts presented at Learning careers, higher education and workplaces. Supporting transitions in times of complexity. ESREA Rennes, France 26-29 March 2025. Paper: Broadhead, S. Hooper, H., Gonnet. Learning Returns: A Space for Self-Identity, Community and Resistance, at Learning and Skills Research Network National Conference 2025, at the College of West Anglia.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 3: Climate-Ready Places 
Organisation City of York Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Sustainable Living' or 'Climate ready region' work package (WP3) was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The co-investigators of YPIP, affiliated with the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) at the University of York, with Leeds Beckett University, and with the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission are primarily responsible for implementing Work Package 3. This involves a range of activities, described below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an elected member of the City of York Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this work package reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 3, based at the University of York and the University of Leeds, aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice. Specific strands of work are: - Retrofit- to support heritage building to become more sustainable in their energy usage. - Land use change to enable reduced negative environmental impact and nature recovery. - Working with good examples of where communities are engaging in environmental projects and building environmental resilience. WP3 contains a diverse suite of sub-packages, each with its own aims and activities. This is an essential characteristic of the work package because, like an ecosystem, the overall resilience of the project's activities and resulting impacts depends on a diversity of approaches. Each sub-package therefore has a separate and more detailed work plan, and this document brings them together in a unified approach for the whole work package. Yorkshire & the Humber faces the challenges of cutting carbon emissions, restoring natural systems, mediating and preparing for extreme weather events whilst reducing inequality and improving wellbeing. But progress towards a sustainable, climate-ready economy is slow in the face of evidence gaps and investment shortfalls. Meanwhile, lower-income and spatially-isolated communities most in need of inclusive growth feel the most adverse consequences of climate change. An accelerated response to climate change thus requires better evidence and a stronger just-transition focus, to build policy-makers' confidence and community resolve. Aim WP3 aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice, through demonstrations of the benefits of joined-up, place-based and participatory practices. Activities The specific activities within the sub-packages follow a broadly consistent approach featuring three types of activities. Baseline review and policy scoping: For each area of work it is necessary to understand the current state of evidence and policy, and in particular to find the synergies and tensions across different policy drivers. Building / growing the communities of practice: For policy innovation to happen it is essential to reach beyond established boundaries between disciplines, and to enable decisions to be informed both by the best professional and academic evidence, and also by the deep place-based knowledge of local citizens and communities of interest. Therefore each activity requires a community of practice where strategic level and local level expertise can coincide and collaborate to co-design solutions and identify policy levers. Developing transferable/scalable solutions: The work package is strongly dependent on place-based demonstrators. It is not expected that a whole solution from one place can be directly replicated in another, but rather the ingredients of successful - and unsuccessful - outcomes in one place can create a collaborative knowledge base that other places can draw upon. Routes to impact Each sub-package is motivated by contributing to a high-level impact in terms of accelerating climate action, nature recovery and a just and fair transition for citizens' future in a changing climate. Inevitably the routes to this impact may be indirect or complex, and it is therefore necessary to identify how each sub-package will position and disseminate its outputs in order to create the conditions for successful impact. Broadly these routes involve a combination of peer-to-peer support, policy advocacy, and securing the continued use and evolution of project findings beyond the YPIP funding period.
Impact Work package 3 have the following update: On the Future Yorkshire Land Use strand, we have engaged with the two demonstrator sites to investigate synergies between our work and their plans. We have identified initial case study sites at: Derwenthorpe, York - with Joseph Rowntree Housing Association who have undertaken community engagement to develop a long term management plan for the new-build site City of York Councils - Green-Blue Strategy development with Cllr Jenny Kent We are undertaking initial fieldwork this month at Derwenthorpe to identify the pros and cons of community engagement in landuse planning and key transferable learning. For the Historic Built Environment strand, we have agreed the work plan in the partners of the Group. We have consulted with key stakeholders including City of York Council, York Civic Trust, the York Climate Commission, especially the built environment task force, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, South Yorkshire Combined Authority and others. One workshop organised under YPIP by the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission (one of the WP3 leads) which was a Live Model Workshop. This is under the second workstream of Historic Built Environment Strand, which aims to build and grow communities of practice. This mixed different sectoral representatives from Y&H - including retrofit experts from the three combined authorities, health professionals, housing association representatives and academics. The game forced different perspectives into the open and developed an interesting discussion on retrofit and associated issues, including health issues related to poor housing quality and the opportunity to upgrade housing that also contributes to the net zero transition. Discussions with CYC (Issy Burkitt; Shaun Gibbons) and Y&NY Combined Authority (Lucy Allis) about the development of the LEAP models for York and North Yorkshire. These authorities have shown their interest in the development of the model for their regions to support their Net Zero transition. Further discussion about the policy questions and uses for the tool.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 3: Climate-Ready Places 
Organisation Leeds Beckett University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Sustainable Living' or 'Climate ready region' work package (WP3) was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The co-investigators of YPIP, affiliated with the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) at the University of York, with Leeds Beckett University, and with the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission are primarily responsible for implementing Work Package 3. This involves a range of activities, described below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an elected member of the City of York Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this work package reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 3, based at the University of York and the University of Leeds, aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice. Specific strands of work are: - Retrofit- to support heritage building to become more sustainable in their energy usage. - Land use change to enable reduced negative environmental impact and nature recovery. - Working with good examples of where communities are engaging in environmental projects and building environmental resilience. WP3 contains a diverse suite of sub-packages, each with its own aims and activities. This is an essential characteristic of the work package because, like an ecosystem, the overall resilience of the project's activities and resulting impacts depends on a diversity of approaches. Each sub-package therefore has a separate and more detailed work plan, and this document brings them together in a unified approach for the whole work package. Yorkshire & the Humber faces the challenges of cutting carbon emissions, restoring natural systems, mediating and preparing for extreme weather events whilst reducing inequality and improving wellbeing. But progress towards a sustainable, climate-ready economy is slow in the face of evidence gaps and investment shortfalls. Meanwhile, lower-income and spatially-isolated communities most in need of inclusive growth feel the most adverse consequences of climate change. An accelerated response to climate change thus requires better evidence and a stronger just-transition focus, to build policy-makers' confidence and community resolve. Aim WP3 aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice, through demonstrations of the benefits of joined-up, place-based and participatory practices. Activities The specific activities within the sub-packages follow a broadly consistent approach featuring three types of activities. Baseline review and policy scoping: For each area of work it is necessary to understand the current state of evidence and policy, and in particular to find the synergies and tensions across different policy drivers. Building / growing the communities of practice: For policy innovation to happen it is essential to reach beyond established boundaries between disciplines, and to enable decisions to be informed both by the best professional and academic evidence, and also by the deep place-based knowledge of local citizens and communities of interest. Therefore each activity requires a community of practice where strategic level and local level expertise can coincide and collaborate to co-design solutions and identify policy levers. Developing transferable/scalable solutions: The work package is strongly dependent on place-based demonstrators. It is not expected that a whole solution from one place can be directly replicated in another, but rather the ingredients of successful - and unsuccessful - outcomes in one place can create a collaborative knowledge base that other places can draw upon. Routes to impact Each sub-package is motivated by contributing to a high-level impact in terms of accelerating climate action, nature recovery and a just and fair transition for citizens' future in a changing climate. Inevitably the routes to this impact may be indirect or complex, and it is therefore necessary to identify how each sub-package will position and disseminate its outputs in order to create the conditions for successful impact. Broadly these routes involve a combination of peer-to-peer support, policy advocacy, and securing the continued use and evolution of project findings beyond the YPIP funding period.
Impact Work package 3 have the following update: On the Future Yorkshire Land Use strand, we have engaged with the two demonstrator sites to investigate synergies between our work and their plans. We have identified initial case study sites at: Derwenthorpe, York - with Joseph Rowntree Housing Association who have undertaken community engagement to develop a long term management plan for the new-build site City of York Councils - Green-Blue Strategy development with Cllr Jenny Kent We are undertaking initial fieldwork this month at Derwenthorpe to identify the pros and cons of community engagement in landuse planning and key transferable learning. For the Historic Built Environment strand, we have agreed the work plan in the partners of the Group. We have consulted with key stakeholders including City of York Council, York Civic Trust, the York Climate Commission, especially the built environment task force, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, South Yorkshire Combined Authority and others. One workshop organised under YPIP by the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission (one of the WP3 leads) which was a Live Model Workshop. This is under the second workstream of Historic Built Environment Strand, which aims to build and grow communities of practice. This mixed different sectoral representatives from Y&H - including retrofit experts from the three combined authorities, health professionals, housing association representatives and academics. The game forced different perspectives into the open and developed an interesting discussion on retrofit and associated issues, including health issues related to poor housing quality and the opportunity to upgrade housing that also contributes to the net zero transition. Discussions with CYC (Issy Burkitt; Shaun Gibbons) and Y&NY Combined Authority (Lucy Allis) about the development of the LEAP models for York and North Yorkshire. These authorities have shown their interest in the development of the model for their regions to support their Net Zero transition. Further discussion about the policy questions and uses for the tool.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 3: Climate-Ready Places 
Organisation Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Department Stockholm Environment Institute,York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Sustainable Living' or 'Climate ready region' work package (WP3) was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The co-investigators of YPIP, affiliated with the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) at the University of York, with Leeds Beckett University, and with the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission are primarily responsible for implementing Work Package 3. This involves a range of activities, described below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an elected member of the City of York Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this work package reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 3, based at the University of York and the University of Leeds, aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice. Specific strands of work are: - Retrofit- to support heritage building to become more sustainable in their energy usage. - Land use change to enable reduced negative environmental impact and nature recovery. - Working with good examples of where communities are engaging in environmental projects and building environmental resilience. WP3 contains a diverse suite of sub-packages, each with its own aims and activities. This is an essential characteristic of the work package because, like an ecosystem, the overall resilience of the project's activities and resulting impacts depends on a diversity of approaches. Each sub-package therefore has a separate and more detailed work plan, and this document brings them together in a unified approach for the whole work package. Yorkshire & the Humber faces the challenges of cutting carbon emissions, restoring natural systems, mediating and preparing for extreme weather events whilst reducing inequality and improving wellbeing. But progress towards a sustainable, climate-ready economy is slow in the face of evidence gaps and investment shortfalls. Meanwhile, lower-income and spatially-isolated communities most in need of inclusive growth feel the most adverse consequences of climate change. An accelerated response to climate change thus requires better evidence and a stronger just-transition focus, to build policy-makers' confidence and community resolve. Aim WP3 aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice, through demonstrations of the benefits of joined-up, place-based and participatory practices. Activities The specific activities within the sub-packages follow a broadly consistent approach featuring three types of activities. Baseline review and policy scoping: For each area of work it is necessary to understand the current state of evidence and policy, and in particular to find the synergies and tensions across different policy drivers. Building / growing the communities of practice: For policy innovation to happen it is essential to reach beyond established boundaries between disciplines, and to enable decisions to be informed both by the best professional and academic evidence, and also by the deep place-based knowledge of local citizens and communities of interest. Therefore each activity requires a community of practice where strategic level and local level expertise can coincide and collaborate to co-design solutions and identify policy levers. Developing transferable/scalable solutions: The work package is strongly dependent on place-based demonstrators. It is not expected that a whole solution from one place can be directly replicated in another, but rather the ingredients of successful - and unsuccessful - outcomes in one place can create a collaborative knowledge base that other places can draw upon. Routes to impact Each sub-package is motivated by contributing to a high-level impact in terms of accelerating climate action, nature recovery and a just and fair transition for citizens' future in a changing climate. Inevitably the routes to this impact may be indirect or complex, and it is therefore necessary to identify how each sub-package will position and disseminate its outputs in order to create the conditions for successful impact. Broadly these routes involve a combination of peer-to-peer support, policy advocacy, and securing the continued use and evolution of project findings beyond the YPIP funding period.
Impact Work package 3 have the following update: On the Future Yorkshire Land Use strand, we have engaged with the two demonstrator sites to investigate synergies between our work and their plans. We have identified initial case study sites at: Derwenthorpe, York - with Joseph Rowntree Housing Association who have undertaken community engagement to develop a long term management plan for the new-build site City of York Councils - Green-Blue Strategy development with Cllr Jenny Kent We are undertaking initial fieldwork this month at Derwenthorpe to identify the pros and cons of community engagement in landuse planning and key transferable learning. For the Historic Built Environment strand, we have agreed the work plan in the partners of the Group. We have consulted with key stakeholders including City of York Council, York Civic Trust, the York Climate Commission, especially the built environment task force, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, South Yorkshire Combined Authority and others. One workshop organised under YPIP by the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission (one of the WP3 leads) which was a Live Model Workshop. This is under the second workstream of Historic Built Environment Strand, which aims to build and grow communities of practice. This mixed different sectoral representatives from Y&H - including retrofit experts from the three combined authorities, health professionals, housing association representatives and academics. The game forced different perspectives into the open and developed an interesting discussion on retrofit and associated issues, including health issues related to poor housing quality and the opportunity to upgrade housing that also contributes to the net zero transition. Discussions with CYC (Issy Burkitt; Shaun Gibbons) and Y&NY Combined Authority (Lucy Allis) about the development of the LEAP models for York and North Yorkshire. These authorities have shown their interest in the development of the model for their regions to support their Net Zero transition. Further discussion about the policy questions and uses for the tool.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 3: Climate-Ready Places 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Sustainable Living' or 'Climate ready region' work package (WP3) was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The co-investigators of YPIP, affiliated with the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) at the University of York, with Leeds Beckett University, and with the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission are primarily responsible for implementing Work Package 3. This involves a range of activities, described below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an elected member of the City of York Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this work package reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 3, based at the University of York and the University of Leeds, aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice. Specific strands of work are: - Retrofit- to support heritage building to become more sustainable in their energy usage. - Land use change to enable reduced negative environmental impact and nature recovery. - Working with good examples of where communities are engaging in environmental projects and building environmental resilience. WP3 contains a diverse suite of sub-packages, each with its own aims and activities. This is an essential characteristic of the work package because, like an ecosystem, the overall resilience of the project's activities and resulting impacts depends on a diversity of approaches. Each sub-package therefore has a separate and more detailed work plan, and this document brings them together in a unified approach for the whole work package. Yorkshire & the Humber faces the challenges of cutting carbon emissions, restoring natural systems, mediating and preparing for extreme weather events whilst reducing inequality and improving wellbeing. But progress towards a sustainable, climate-ready economy is slow in the face of evidence gaps and investment shortfalls. Meanwhile, lower-income and spatially-isolated communities most in need of inclusive growth feel the most adverse consequences of climate change. An accelerated response to climate change thus requires better evidence and a stronger just-transition focus, to build policy-makers' confidence and community resolve. Aim WP3 aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice, through demonstrations of the benefits of joined-up, place-based and participatory practices. Activities The specific activities within the sub-packages follow a broadly consistent approach featuring three types of activities. Baseline review and policy scoping: For each area of work it is necessary to understand the current state of evidence and policy, and in particular to find the synergies and tensions across different policy drivers. Building / growing the communities of practice: For policy innovation to happen it is essential to reach beyond established boundaries between disciplines, and to enable decisions to be informed both by the best professional and academic evidence, and also by the deep place-based knowledge of local citizens and communities of interest. Therefore each activity requires a community of practice where strategic level and local level expertise can coincide and collaborate to co-design solutions and identify policy levers. Developing transferable/scalable solutions: The work package is strongly dependent on place-based demonstrators. It is not expected that a whole solution from one place can be directly replicated in another, but rather the ingredients of successful - and unsuccessful - outcomes in one place can create a collaborative knowledge base that other places can draw upon. Routes to impact Each sub-package is motivated by contributing to a high-level impact in terms of accelerating climate action, nature recovery and a just and fair transition for citizens' future in a changing climate. Inevitably the routes to this impact may be indirect or complex, and it is therefore necessary to identify how each sub-package will position and disseminate its outputs in order to create the conditions for successful impact. Broadly these routes involve a combination of peer-to-peer support, policy advocacy, and securing the continued use and evolution of project findings beyond the YPIP funding period.
Impact Work package 3 have the following update: On the Future Yorkshire Land Use strand, we have engaged with the two demonstrator sites to investigate synergies between our work and their plans. We have identified initial case study sites at: Derwenthorpe, York - with Joseph Rowntree Housing Association who have undertaken community engagement to develop a long term management plan for the new-build site City of York Councils - Green-Blue Strategy development with Cllr Jenny Kent We are undertaking initial fieldwork this month at Derwenthorpe to identify the pros and cons of community engagement in landuse planning and key transferable learning. For the Historic Built Environment strand, we have agreed the work plan in the partners of the Group. We have consulted with key stakeholders including City of York Council, York Civic Trust, the York Climate Commission, especially the built environment task force, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, South Yorkshire Combined Authority and others. One workshop organised under YPIP by the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission (one of the WP3 leads) which was a Live Model Workshop. This is under the second workstream of Historic Built Environment Strand, which aims to build and grow communities of practice. This mixed different sectoral representatives from Y&H - including retrofit experts from the three combined authorities, health professionals, housing association representatives and academics. The game forced different perspectives into the open and developed an interesting discussion on retrofit and associated issues, including health issues related to poor housing quality and the opportunity to upgrade housing that also contributes to the net zero transition. Discussions with CYC (Issy Burkitt; Shaun Gibbons) and Y&NY Combined Authority (Lucy Allis) about the development of the LEAP models for York and North Yorkshire. These authorities have shown their interest in the development of the model for their regions to support their Net Zero transition. Further discussion about the policy questions and uses for the tool.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 3: Climate-Ready Places 
Organisation University of Leeds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Sustainable Living' or 'Climate ready region' work package (WP3) was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The co-investigators of YPIP, affiliated with the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) at the University of York, with Leeds Beckett University, and with the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission are primarily responsible for implementing Work Package 3. This involves a range of activities, described below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an elected member of the City of York Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this work package reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 3, based at the University of York and the University of Leeds, aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice. Specific strands of work are: - Retrofit- to support heritage building to become more sustainable in their energy usage. - Land use change to enable reduced negative environmental impact and nature recovery. - Working with good examples of where communities are engaging in environmental projects and building environmental resilience. WP3 contains a diverse suite of sub-packages, each with its own aims and activities. This is an essential characteristic of the work package because, like an ecosystem, the overall resilience of the project's activities and resulting impacts depends on a diversity of approaches. Each sub-package therefore has a separate and more detailed work plan, and this document brings them together in a unified approach for the whole work package. Yorkshire & the Humber faces the challenges of cutting carbon emissions, restoring natural systems, mediating and preparing for extreme weather events whilst reducing inequality and improving wellbeing. But progress towards a sustainable, climate-ready economy is slow in the face of evidence gaps and investment shortfalls. Meanwhile, lower-income and spatially-isolated communities most in need of inclusive growth feel the most adverse consequences of climate change. An accelerated response to climate change thus requires better evidence and a stronger just-transition focus, to build policy-makers' confidence and community resolve. Aim WP3 aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice, through demonstrations of the benefits of joined-up, place-based and participatory practices. Activities The specific activities within the sub-packages follow a broadly consistent approach featuring three types of activities. Baseline review and policy scoping: For each area of work it is necessary to understand the current state of evidence and policy, and in particular to find the synergies and tensions across different policy drivers. Building / growing the communities of practice: For policy innovation to happen it is essential to reach beyond established boundaries between disciplines, and to enable decisions to be informed both by the best professional and academic evidence, and also by the deep place-based knowledge of local citizens and communities of interest. Therefore each activity requires a community of practice where strategic level and local level expertise can coincide and collaborate to co-design solutions and identify policy levers. Developing transferable/scalable solutions: The work package is strongly dependent on place-based demonstrators. It is not expected that a whole solution from one place can be directly replicated in another, but rather the ingredients of successful - and unsuccessful - outcomes in one place can create a collaborative knowledge base that other places can draw upon. Routes to impact Each sub-package is motivated by contributing to a high-level impact in terms of accelerating climate action, nature recovery and a just and fair transition for citizens' future in a changing climate. Inevitably the routes to this impact may be indirect or complex, and it is therefore necessary to identify how each sub-package will position and disseminate its outputs in order to create the conditions for successful impact. Broadly these routes involve a combination of peer-to-peer support, policy advocacy, and securing the continued use and evolution of project findings beyond the YPIP funding period.
Impact Work package 3 have the following update: On the Future Yorkshire Land Use strand, we have engaged with the two demonstrator sites to investigate synergies between our work and their plans. We have identified initial case study sites at: Derwenthorpe, York - with Joseph Rowntree Housing Association who have undertaken community engagement to develop a long term management plan for the new-build site City of York Councils - Green-Blue Strategy development with Cllr Jenny Kent We are undertaking initial fieldwork this month at Derwenthorpe to identify the pros and cons of community engagement in landuse planning and key transferable learning. For the Historic Built Environment strand, we have agreed the work plan in the partners of the Group. We have consulted with key stakeholders including City of York Council, York Civic Trust, the York Climate Commission, especially the built environment task force, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, South Yorkshire Combined Authority and others. One workshop organised under YPIP by the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission (one of the WP3 leads) which was a Live Model Workshop. This is under the second workstream of Historic Built Environment Strand, which aims to build and grow communities of practice. This mixed different sectoral representatives from Y&H - including retrofit experts from the three combined authorities, health professionals, housing association representatives and academics. The game forced different perspectives into the open and developed an interesting discussion on retrofit and associated issues, including health issues related to poor housing quality and the opportunity to upgrade housing that also contributes to the net zero transition. Discussions with CYC (Issy Burkitt; Shaun Gibbons) and Y&NY Combined Authority (Lucy Allis) about the development of the LEAP models for York and North Yorkshire. These authorities have shown their interest in the development of the model for their regions to support their Net Zero transition. Further discussion about the policy questions and uses for the tool.
Start Year 2024
 
Description YPIP Work Package 3: Climate-Ready Places 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The structure of YPIP was co-designed by the PI and Co-Director, the YPIP staff, and our academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, during LPIP Phase-1 and LPIP Phase-2 activities. The 'Sustainable Living' or 'Climate ready region' work package (WP3) was agreed as a key part of the YPIP proposal when our Phase-2 proposal was designed. The co-investigators of YPIP, affiliated with the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) at the University of York, with Leeds Beckett University, and with the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission are primarily responsible for implementing Work Package 3. This involves a range of activities, described below. Note that one of the non-academic co-investigators of YPIP is an elected member of the City of York Council; while they are fully involved in overall project activities, this work package reflects their special interest, so they are listed here.
Collaborator Contribution Work package 3, based at the University of York and the University of Leeds, aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice. Specific strands of work are: - Retrofit- to support heritage building to become more sustainable in their energy usage. - Land use change to enable reduced negative environmental impact and nature recovery. - Working with good examples of where communities are engaging in environmental projects and building environmental resilience. WP3 contains a diverse suite of sub-packages, each with its own aims and activities. This is an essential characteristic of the work package because, like an ecosystem, the overall resilience of the project's activities and resulting impacts depends on a diversity of approaches. Each sub-package therefore has a separate and more detailed work plan, and this document brings them together in a unified approach for the whole work package. Yorkshire & the Humber faces the challenges of cutting carbon emissions, restoring natural systems, mediating and preparing for extreme weather events whilst reducing inequality and improving wellbeing. But progress towards a sustainable, climate-ready economy is slow in the face of evidence gaps and investment shortfalls. Meanwhile, lower-income and spatially-isolated communities most in need of inclusive growth feel the most adverse consequences of climate change. An accelerated response to climate change thus requires better evidence and a stronger just-transition focus, to build policy-makers' confidence and community resolve. Aim WP3 aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice, through demonstrations of the benefits of joined-up, place-based and participatory practices. Activities The specific activities within the sub-packages follow a broadly consistent approach featuring three types of activities. Baseline review and policy scoping: For each area of work it is necessary to understand the current state of evidence and policy, and in particular to find the synergies and tensions across different policy drivers. Building / growing the communities of practice: For policy innovation to happen it is essential to reach beyond established boundaries between disciplines, and to enable decisions to be informed both by the best professional and academic evidence, and also by the deep place-based knowledge of local citizens and communities of interest. Therefore each activity requires a community of practice where strategic level and local level expertise can coincide and collaborate to co-design solutions and identify policy levers. Developing transferable/scalable solutions: The work package is strongly dependent on place-based demonstrators. It is not expected that a whole solution from one place can be directly replicated in another, but rather the ingredients of successful - and unsuccessful - outcomes in one place can create a collaborative knowledge base that other places can draw upon. Routes to impact Each sub-package is motivated by contributing to a high-level impact in terms of accelerating climate action, nature recovery and a just and fair transition for citizens' future in a changing climate. Inevitably the routes to this impact may be indirect or complex, and it is therefore necessary to identify how each sub-package will position and disseminate its outputs in order to create the conditions for successful impact. Broadly these routes involve a combination of peer-to-peer support, policy advocacy, and securing the continued use and evolution of project findings beyond the YPIP funding period.
Impact Work package 3 have the following update: On the Future Yorkshire Land Use strand, we have engaged with the two demonstrator sites to investigate synergies between our work and their plans. We have identified initial case study sites at: Derwenthorpe, York - with Joseph Rowntree Housing Association who have undertaken community engagement to develop a long term management plan for the new-build site City of York Councils - Green-Blue Strategy development with Cllr Jenny Kent We are undertaking initial fieldwork this month at Derwenthorpe to identify the pros and cons of community engagement in landuse planning and key transferable learning. For the Historic Built Environment strand, we have agreed the work plan in the partners of the Group. We have consulted with key stakeholders including City of York Council, York Civic Trust, the York Climate Commission, especially the built environment task force, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, South Yorkshire Combined Authority and others. One workshop organised under YPIP by the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission (one of the WP3 leads) which was a Live Model Workshop. This is under the second workstream of Historic Built Environment Strand, which aims to build and grow communities of practice. This mixed different sectoral representatives from Y&H - including retrofit experts from the three combined authorities, health professionals, housing association representatives and academics. The game forced different perspectives into the open and developed an interesting discussion on retrofit and associated issues, including health issues related to poor housing quality and the opportunity to upgrade housing that also contributes to the net zero transition. Discussions with CYC (Issy Burkitt; Shaun Gibbons) and Y&NY Combined Authority (Lucy Allis) about the development of the LEAP models for York and North Yorkshire. These authorities have shown their interest in the development of the model for their regions to support their Net Zero transition. Further discussion about the policy questions and uses for the tool.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Business in the Community
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation City of York Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Leeds Beckett University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Leeds City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Leeds College of Art
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Leeds College of Music
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Leeds Trinity University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Research
Department NIHR CLAHRC Yorkshire and Humber
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation North Yorkshire County Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Sheffield City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Sheffield Hallam University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation University of Bradford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation University of Huddersfield
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation University of Hull
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation University of Sheffield
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Wakefield Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation York St John University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership Phase 1 
Organisation Yorkshire Universities
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution * The structure of YPIP was co-designed by me, the staff I hired, and my academic and non-academic collaborators across the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, to realise this potential. It led directly to the creation of a LPIP Phase-2 funding proposal, which was the specific objective of our Phase-1 activities, and which we submitted on time, 19 Sept 2023, to the new UKRI portal. We coordinated all the communications with our partners, indicating ways in which they could join either the workshops we were undertaking and/or the proposal itself. We had individual meetings with representatives and potential collaborators in LPIP Phase-2 from each of the universities, exploring how they might like to be involved and then considering how these different forms of participation might be worked into a coherent overall plan for a region-wide project. At the same time, I am an active member of the Research England-funded YPERN project (which also involves the 12 universities in Yorkshire and the Humber), and I made certain that our communications and plans were consistent with YPERN activities, which had reached a new and more mature phase 8-12 months in advance of our work for the LPIP Phase-1 grant this is the subject of this report.
Collaborator Contribution The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Impact The collaborators in the University of Hull, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of York - that is, my prospective co-investigators and the research and administrative staff assisting them - organized 2 workshops each, for a total of 8. This involved considerable effort - arranging the space, co-developing a plan for the workshops, spreading the word, getting people to come there from the different sectors of society, and then running the workshops and assessing their results. All these activities were carried out as per our LPIP Phase-1 application. The results were excellent - we had robust workshops, whose length in time varied from 3 hours to 6 hours. Many participants joined, from all sectors of each subregion in Yorkshire and the HUmber. My partners in these universities then helped generate analyses and also participated in meetings in which we synthesized the results of these workshops. These activities led directly to the co-creation of the different work packages and - as it turned out - the cross-cutting theme that we put into our (successful) LPIP Phase-2 proposal.
Start Year 2024
 
Description CCT: Attended Summer Wellbeing Festival 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Disseminated information about YPIP and the community panel to an audience who focus on wellbeing and strengths based work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Attending Fearless Cities conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Held a stand which led to many conversations and within a presentation promoted and shared information (time was two days plus the conference presentation).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Castlegate Commons community partnership 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Connected into a co-production project by University of Sheffield Architecture department, Sheffield Council and community organisations who are co-producing the rebuilding of a development on a historic site in Sheffield. Attended 4 meetings with 6 people representing community interest groups and community organisations focused on marginalised groups. It has led to developing connections for the communities of practice and a successful panel application from one of the community groups.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Collaboration with Coast and Vale Community Action (CaVCA) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Working with the CEO to engage prospective community panel members, two of which applied and were successful in becoming panel members. Further involvement will involve co-designing communities of practice through either adding capacity to already existing spaces or co-creating one and relationship building with a view of CAVA becoming a community exemplar in the next stage of our work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Collaboration with Hull City Council Planning team 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Worked with Sharon Clay's team to understand how to operationalise the local level context in the exemplar site work in the next phase of CCT work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Collaboration with NHS North Yorkshire Research Engagement Network 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Early stages of the relationship and met only with the Innovation Business Partner, but understanding how to connect our work together and connect in to exemplars across the region and how we can work together to build communities of practice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Collaboration with North Yorkshire Council's Communities Team on community panel recruitment and wider CCT capacity building work. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Worked with Co-I Marie-Anne Jackson's team at North Yorkshire Council to connect across their extensive network in North Yorkshire for community panel recruitment information dissemination and connecting in to specific groups for capacity building work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Collaboration with South Yorkshire Community Foundation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Worked with SYCF to learn and understand exemplary community action across the area and extending our reach into communities for applications to the Community Panel. Further involvement will involve co-designing communities of practice through either adding capacity to already existing spaces or co-creating one. The initial engagement was with a team of three but SYCF's network is expansive and connects across many grassroots organisation in South Yorkshire.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Community Panel and exemplar open meetings 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact One with Council officers and VCS representatives and one with community members. Discussed the community panel, advised on how to apply, discussed exemplar work and communities of practice at both events. Led to five people applying to the panel, four of which were successful.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Connecting across the Community Foundations Network 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presented on the cross cutting theme and discussed scope for capacity building of communities of practice and exemplar mapping at the meeting of Yorkshire's Community Foundation network's Chief Executive meeting where there were 10 attendees.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Connecting with SYMCA Economic Policy Team 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Engaged with the head of Economic Policy to share the work that the cross cutting theme is doing amongst their network, to extend our reach into communities and organisations across South Yorkshire for communities of practice and exemplar mapping. Significantly we made connection with New Economics Foundation on the Reclaiming Our Regional Economies (RORE) project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Dream Weavers Meetings 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A cross-project weaving Y-PERN, Ideas Fund and YPIP teams at Hull exploring interconnections and opportunities for collaboration x3 2024 and two smaller meetings in Hull context and 1 with wider work package and Y-Pern regional.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Engagement with Local Authorities to extend exemplar and panel reach. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Worked with Barnsley, Leeds, East Ridings, Rotherham, North Yorkshire and Calderdale council teams (approx. 3 people in each LA) to learn and understand exemplary community action across their areas and extending our reach into communities for applications to the Community Panel. Connections were made to VCS anchor organisations and community panel information went out across newsletters.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Engagement with West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Worked with West Yorkshire ICB to learn and understand exemplary community action across the area and extending our reach into communities for applications to the Community Panel. They have two different networks: one that connects to anchor organisations across the region; and one that connects marginalised groups
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Engagement with Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission forum to extend exemplar and panel reach 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Attended a virtual forum with approx. 34 attendees from across Yorkshire and Humber who represented local authorities and communities. Gathered knowledge on exemplar action from across the region. Specifically connected with Calderdale's Climate Action Plan, East Riding Council's Environment team and a Leeds councillor in a deprived ward.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Engaging directly with potential community panel applicants 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Spoken with community panel applicants via telephone, Microsoft Teams and email (over 60) from across the Yorkshire region. Those who were not successful were still engaged further with the offer to keep connected to other activities within YPIP.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Engaging with Rotherham Council Neighbourhoods team 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Connected through via the executive team at Rotherham council. Worked to learn and understand exemplary community action across the area and extending our reach into communities for applications to the Community Panel. Direct connections were made with the VCS from this discussion and community panel recruitment information was disseminated via their newsletter to all community organisations who were signed up.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Hull VCSE Assembly 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Attended two, giving a speech about the CTT and the Community Panel to an audience of approx. 50 people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Ideas Fund Hull conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Shared information on YPIP and the CTT work to an audience of 120 during a presentation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Lighter touch engagement and partnership building with VCS organisations and collaborative networks 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Worked with Kirklees Action Plus, Voluntary Action Rotherham, Barnsley CVS, Wakefield Food Partnerships, NOVA Wakefield, Community Vision East Yorkshire (East Ridings), Roundabout (Sheffield), LS14 Trust (Leeds), Chapel FM (Leeds), Citizens Network Sheffield, OPUS (Sheffield), Leeds Climate Action, the Bradford VCS Alliance and Hyde Park Source (Leeds) to learn and understand exemplary community action across the area and extending our reach into communities for applications to the Community Panel. One person met directly in each organisation but information and knowledge of the CCT was shared through extensive networks as was community panel recruitment information. Have also begun building relationships around the communities of practice as well as understanding what other work packages may benefit from being connected in. We have received community panel applications from people engaging with LS14 Trust and Roundabout that were both successful.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Partnering with New Economics Foundation (NEF) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Partnering involves connecting into a specific exemplar based in Maltby, South Yorkshire where NEF are supporting a community to organise around housing and land use in a deprived area. We supported in providing academic knowledge on an issue the community were facing which has led to an opportunity to directly engage with the community action which may become one of the exemplars of focus. We have also engaged with NEF on building a relationship for the communities of practice work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Partnering with Voluntary Action Sheffield (VAS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Worked with VAS to learn and understand exemplary community action across the area and extending our reach into communities for applications to the Community Panel. They invited us to meet with seven of the organisations under their umbrella that work with marginalised communities, further building specific relationships. Work with VAS also includes developing relationships for the communities of practice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Partnership building with Cllr Dye (Seacroft and Killingbeck, Leeds) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Cllr Dye is an engaged councillor working in a deprived ward in Leeds, with Seacroft historically being one of the largest council estates in Europe. Worked with Cllr Dye to learn and understand exemplar community activities in the area, connecting into specific organisations that would be able to support in Community Panel recruitment and information dissemination. We are also keeping Cllr Dye abreast of other opportunities to engage with YPIP across the work packages.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Partnership building work with Sheffield And District African Caribbean Community Association (SADACCA) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Partnering involves understanding the projects that SADACCA are currently engaged in and identifying whether they may become a specific exemplar, building a relationship for the communities of practice work and application from two members to the Community Panel (one of which was successful). SADACCA has a reach across the whole of Sheffield with the African and Caribbean diasporas, focusing on multi-generational engagement and knowledge of the CCT has been shared.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Partnership with Meadows Nursery (Sheffield) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Meadows Nursery, Sheffield engages parents and the community in a deprived area of Sheffield, empowering those with lived experience to make a difference to their own community. We are working together with them becoming a community exemplar in the next stage of our work, understanding what further connections for collaboration may also exist.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description CCT: Visits to Ideas Fund Communities of Practice x 2 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Hosted conversations promoting the panel and later dissemination the information on the CIYF (20 projects in attendance).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Charity Hub Rotherham Monthly Networking Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact South Yorkshire Apprentice Hub - Lauren connected Vicki with Sarah Molton
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description City of York Green-Blue Space Strategy Development 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 2 meetings held with St.Nicks and Cllr. Jenny Kent (City of York Council)

Development of case study related to improving coordination of York community based conservation activities to maximise the biodiversity, climate resilience and health and wellbeing benefits resulting from York landuse management practices

City of York

Primary initial audience is the City of York Council officers to obtain buy-in, permissions and data

Most significant outcome has been to gain permissions from CYC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund (CIYF) Engagement - ongoing 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact As part of internal YPIP engagement, we have attended one of the launch events for the recently opened CIY fund to connect with prospective applicants under the theme of 'Collecting and Utilising Community Data' which is relevant to our work as YHODA. This particular event was targeted at local authorities, researchers, and not-for-profit organisations in South Yorkshire. This opportunity allowed us to gain more information about some of the ongoing work and challenges around data analytics in the region. Additionally, we were able to obtain a number of leads across different organisations that may be utilised for publicising YEP or for KE purposes.

We continue to engage with the CIYF and will be leading a webinar for applicants interested in our theme in mid-March that will allows us the opportunity to guide applicants and establish collaborative relationships going forward. That includes the possibility of incorporating data collected as part of the CIYF projects into YEP and working toward the legitimisation of community-generated data which is largely missing from the data analytic landscape in Yorkshire and the Humber region.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: CIYF launch event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Organised a launch event at The Green Estate in Sheffield and presented YPIP and CIY Fund to 32 stakeholder representatives in South Yorkshire
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Hull VCSE Assembly Meeting (in-person) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Lauren and Kate Macdonald (CCT) presented to the group about the upcoming launch of CIY Fund. Approx 40 VCFSE partners from Hull and East Riding at the meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Leeds Beckett CIYF Webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presented to approx 12 staff at Leeds Beckett who work with community groups to better understand the CIY Fund
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Barnsley CVS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Meeting with Head of Strategic Partnerships and Operations, Made a link with contact at Barnsley Council's Pathways to Work programme - WP2a colleagues are already linked into this.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Bradford Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussed YPIP Communication channels, CIY Fund, future progress of the project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Bradford Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting to discuss YPIP communication channels and contact details of colleagues
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Bradford Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussion with Team Leader - Marketing and Communications about CIY Fund
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Calderdale Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussion with Cultural Programme Manager - Communities about WP2b
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Community Vision 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Discussion with Children and Young People's Services Coordinator/ER VCSE Safeguarding Support Services Manager/ER VCSE Domestic Abuse Lead Representative- Linked Lauren (comms manager) in with Charlee Bewsher from Youth Work Unit to see how young people as a marginalised group from across the region can engage in the project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Delivery Manager at VSI Alliance 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Invited other 5 colleagues from Calderdale Council and VCFSE sector to hear about CIY Fund and about YPIP project. Pamhidzai Broodie (Culturedale) linked in to explore WP1
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with East Riding of Yorkshire Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Shared various local contacts, looped into YPIP communications
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with East Riding of Yorkshire Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Experts in ethics and data for the Council and produced the East Riding Intel Hub
Neutral team within the Council that supports directorates and departments across the organisation in engaging with the community
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Forum Central 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Supported to organise presentations to Leeds Third Sector Partnership and Voluntary Action Leeds on YPIP and CIY Fund.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with HEY Smile Foundation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Discussion with Community Development Manager about CIY Fund
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Leeds Beckett 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussion with Public Health Specialist about CCT
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Leeds City Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussion with Health Partnerships- Exploring multi-level governance in the region through connecting with health colleagues and how YPIP can facilitate this conversation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Leeds City Council - Business and IP Centre 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Provides support to people starting businesses or established businesses that may be struggling or looking for development in Leeds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Leeds City Council - Leeds Libraries 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussion about CIY Fund, CCT, WP1
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussion with Relationship Manager - North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, Community Cohesion Unit, about WP1 and CIY Fund
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with NHS ICB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Arfan sits on the YHODA Advisory Board and has worked with Tony Cooke from Leeds City Council
VCSE Research Champions has rolled out across the region
Work Health and Skills Accelerator is happening across the area and there's a specific piece of work around Work and Health in West and South Yorkshire.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with North Yorkshire Health Determinants Research Collaborative 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presented to approx. 16 health colleagues at HDRC Network Meeting 28/01/2025, routes for ongoing exploration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with North Yorkshire and Humber NHS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discuss YPIP communication channels
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Nova Wakefield 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Linked Elsie in with Cross-cutting Theme for Wakefield representation on the Community Panel
Attended Nova Wakefield VCSE Voices Meeting with approx 15 representatives from VCFSE sector on 23/01/2025
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Nova Wakefield and Wakefield Community Anchor Network 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Met with 5 main partners of Wakefield Community Anchor Network steering group in a meeting on 23/01/2025, info shared about CIYF
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care, North Yorkshire Council, Doncaster Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussed Overlaps in work with working on a regional level and interests in similar thematic areas. Additional meeting on Friday 14 February including Tom Mapplethorpe (Kirlees Council/Advanced Practitioner Fellow (Inclusive and Wellbeing Economies) to discuss further.
Exploring Jess and Tom's workplans on how we can link into this
Lauren and Gary attending Y&H Climate and Health Partnership Meeting on Tuesday 18 March 2025
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Ryedale Creative 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Worked in Huddersfield University on 'Cultures of Creative Health'
Trying to maintain the rural creative economy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Sales Director at Local iQ 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Discussing working with them to run an engagement campaign with businesses through their magazine, social media and events in Bradford and York - their reach is West, North and East Yorkshire-Notified WP2a of this campaign and looking to explore this further
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Sheffield Council East Local Area Committee 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Discussed WP1 activities, Want to know what's going on elsewhere in the region
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Two Ridings Community Foundation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Discussion with Head of Grants about CIY Fund
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with VCS Alliance 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Meeting to discuss YPIP communication channels
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Voluntary Sector Development Lead at Voluntary and Community (VAC)/VSI Alliance 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Discussed the CIY fund, Invited us to present at the Calderdale Funding Marketplace event on Wednesday 25 February. Presented to approx 40 VCFSE partners from the local area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with West Yorkshire NHS ICB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Paul sits on YHODA Advisory Board
Have a database of 14,000 VCFSE sector organisations in West Yorkshire
Power of Communities Board brought together
Hosted Community Research Engagement Network in Bradford on 25/02/2025 which Gissell attended.
Shared information about WP2a linking in with the emerging NHS work around economic inactivity due to health in West & South Yorkshire
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with York City Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Linked Jennie in with Stan, Guifre, Steve and Johan in a follow up email after the meeting
Jennie also shared the CIY Fund with her networks
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core Team: Meeting with Youth Work Unit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Interest in across the board to get young people's voices involved in the project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Core team: Community Action Bradford and District 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presented YPIP and CIY Fund to approx 20 leaders.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Engagement with other LPIP Hubs 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact There has been good communications amongst the Phase-2 LPIP PIs, leading to a vision of future collaborative efforts - a national database of regional information, for example, is something we have discussed together; and we want to build up a set of ongoing linkages among our regions, planning to visit and learn from one another. Especially on items like community engagement, we recognize that there are many ways of approaching them, and we can always pick up good ideas by observing others' efforts to solve problems that we also face.
We have attended in person workshops and meetings with the Hub and other LPIPs twice in Birmingham in 2024, and once in Cardiff in 2025. Further meetings are planned for the duration of the LPIP programmes, in the other locations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Gary Dymski and WP3 - Open planning meeting to integrate Climate initiatives with a role for communities 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact WP3 - Open planning meeting to integrate Climate initiatives with a role for communities - All the academic members of WP 3 joined, as did researchers from the Sustainability Research Institute and the Faculty of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. 15 May, 9 AM - 1 PM, SEE Room 11.120.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Gary Dymski: Leeds City Council - Inclusive Growth Partnership event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Leeds City Council - Inclusive Growth Partnership event, 19 July, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM (G.Dymski participating).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Gary Dymski: Leeds Community Research Network planning session, YPIP invited (G.Dymski attending) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Leeds Community Research Network planning session, YPIP invited (G.Dymski attending), 9:30 AM - 4 PM, Cloth Hall, Leeds
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Gary Dymski: UPEN conference on 'Academic policy engagement and future of devolution,' at Leeds Beckett University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact UPEN conference on 'Academic policy engagement and future of devolution,' at Leeds Beckett University. 9 July, 9:30 AM - 4 PM (G.Dymski as participant and speaker).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Gary Dymski: WYCA Local Growth Plan - meeting of the WYCA Expert Panel (including G. Dymski from UoL/YPIP) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact WYCA Local Growth Plan - meeting of the WYCA Expert Panel (including G. Dymski from UoL/YPIP)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Gary Dymski: YPERN-YPIP-CityREDI sharing meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact YPERN-YPIP-CityREDI sharing meeting - 25 April, 10 AM - 4 PM
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description LG Inform Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact As part of scoping the data analytic tools and services that are already available to our stakeholders, we attended an LG Inform information session to understand this existing benchmarking data tool from the Local Government Association (LGA). Additionally, our partner in SYMCA has facilitated direct engagement with LG Inform to further understand the paid services LG Inform offers to local authorities. This engagement has allowed us deeper insight into how YEP can contribute to existing tools for data analytics and provide a good 'value for money' given that it will be offered to local authorities for free. For example, LG Inform's suite focuses on data aggregation rather than more in-depth analytical modeling, which provides us with the opportunity to fill this gap.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description WP2a Stakeholder Discussions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Ongoing one-to-one discussions with stakeholders have been undertaken since formal programme launch to determine which partners and activities we will engage with for the next substantive phase of stage of WP2a activities. These discussions have been critical for identifying knowledge gaps and shaping research activities to align with local partners' priorities. Most activities have focussed on South Yorkshire to date and we are now looking to expand our work into West Yorkshire with plans to host a stakeholder workshop in Spring 2025.

Yorkshire and Humber ARC : Discuss work of ARCs and potential for collaboration

VAS and SYCF: Explore opportunities to build YPIP activities around partner projects (2 meetings)

BITC and Sheffield City Council: Explore opportunities for collaboration around BITC's employer engagement activities. Now being developed with BITC helping to set up case studies for work on inclusive recruitment

Barnsley Council: Explore opportunities for collaboration around rollout of Barnsley's Pathway to Work Commission activities.

Sheffield Chamber of Commerce: Develop ideas for Chamber engagement with YPIP

Barnsley and Rotherham Chamber of Commerce: Explore how YPIP activities can respond to Chamber priorities

Skills Street: Explore potential for YPIP develop activities around innovative employer engagement work around skills and young people

SYMCA and Coops UK: Ongoing discuss around work of SYMCA to engage communities in decision making processes

Infinite Skills: Discuss project on inclusive recruitment as potential case study

Sheffield City Council: Explore opportunity to develop work on foundational economy to support Sheffield City Council work on improving job quality in low paid sectors (2 meetings), Now being developed in work programme to be delivered through YPERN initially.

Inclusive Engineering: Discuss work on EEDI in Foundation Industries as model for YPIP

Tempus Novo: Discuss work on recruitment of prison leavers as potential case study

Sheffield Occupational Health Service: Discuss service to refine ideas around work and health theme

Voluntary Action Sheffield: Discuss employment project for refugees as potential case study

Tailored Thinking: Explore work around job crafting and relevance to YPIP

Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council: Discuss Council's employer engagement and skills activities

SYMCA: Discuss connections between SYMCA work on climate change and inclusion with WP2 and WP3

TUC: Discuss work TUC has undertaken with LAs and CAs to support good work agenda e.g. through development of Good Employment Charters

University of Manchester: Discuss research on good employment charters

DWP: Discuss potential alignment of YPIP WP2s themes with DWP ARIs, Invitation to set up joint event with DWP analysis on good work in Spring 2025

HLM Architects: Discussion of inclusive recruitment practices in HLM and across Sheffield more broadly, including work to support recruitment of care experienced young people, Working with Karen Mosley alongside BITC to develop package of research activities around inclusive recruitment including local case studies

South Yorkshire Community Foundation: Discuss findings from SYCF's Vital Signs of local community groups survey included questions on good work, Working with SYCF to explore opportunities to bring together underrepresented groups and employers to co-design more inclusive workplace practices

South Yorkshire Institute of Technology: Discussion FE engagement with employers and employer expectations of young people

Sheffield Social Enterprise Network: Explore how social enterprise model could shape inclusive business practices in the private sector

SYMCA/SYSC: Discuss connections between SYMCA work on climate change and inclusion with WP2and 3

Sheffield Futures: Discussed Sheffield Future's fee-paying model for employers looking for support to employ young people

Shaw Trust: Explored employer engagement activities of Shaw Trust

Business In the Community (BITC): Potential to partner with their Opening Doors: Driving Inclusive Recruitment programme - initially in Sheffield but potential to scale nationally.

South Yorkshire Community Foundation: Potential to build upon the Vital Signs consultation for specific WP2a activities.

Doncaster Council: Series of meetings to discuss opportunities to collaborate with YPIP on work on Doncaster priorities.

FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

TUC: Further meeting planned in late March to discuss deepening on TUC engagement in YPIP

Kirklees Council: Planned meeting to discuss Tom's fellowship around inclusive economies and links with the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities.

SYMCA: Meeting planned on 20 March to explore opportunities to collaborate with SYMA on their better business activities.

























































Yorkshire and Humber ARC

Discuss work of ARCs and potential for collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description WP2a: Doncaster Employment and Skills Board (18 July 2024) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited to present at the Doncaster Employment and Skills Board to range of stakeholders to explore potential alignment of WP2a activities to work being undertaken in Doncaster. Led to further discussion with Council around alignment supporting their Work and Health agenda.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description WP2a: Leeds Inclusive Employer Network (LIEN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Attended the networking event organised by Lighthouse Futures Trust on 4th March 2025, with 21 attendees. The event focused on inclusive recruitment and provided an opportunity to explore potential collaboration and gather insights relevant to the Good Work and Better Business project. Initial contacts were made with businesses, Leeds City Council, and organisations involved in inclusive recruitment. These will be followed up with one-to-one conversations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description WP2a: Sheffield Employment and Skills Advisory Board (05 September 2024) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited to present at the Skills Board to range of stakeholders to explore potential alignment of WP2a activities to work being undertaken in Sheffield.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description WP2a: Two core partner engagement meetings 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Two core partner engagement meetings were held in Feb 2024 with Business in the Community, Barnsley and Rotherham Chamber of Commerce, South Yorkshire Community Foundation and SYMCA to discuss the programme launch and opportunities for collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description WP2a: Yorkshire & Humber:? Academic Policy Engagement Networks Collaboration 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited to present on YPIP at a workshop on regional academic-policy networks. Led to further links and opportunities including forthcoming meeting with Joanne Smithson @ North Yorkshire council to discuss the Council's interest in good work and workforce wellbeing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Work package 1: Centre for Thriving Places (CTP) Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As part of scoping the data analytic tools and services that are already available to our stakeholders, we approached CTP (a not-for-profit consultancy) for the purposes of KE and potential collaboration. We were particularly interested in understanding the methodology behind their Thriving Places Index (TPIndex) as it could inform the creation of our own indices. Our discussions focused on data standardisation techniques, handling of missing values and outliers, and different approaches for the creation of composite vitality index for Yorkshire and the Humber region. We agreed to maintain a relationship with CTP and exchange information on indicator computation and standardisation methodologies as our projects progress. It is possible that additional opportunities for collaboration or further consultation with CTP may arise in the future.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 1: Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) North Yorkshire Introductory Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact As part of generating interest for the wider YPIP project, we were put in touch with HDRC, who were interested in our work and themselves work with data on social determinants in health. Unfortunately, the timeline for the HDRC project does not align with our own and it is unlikely that there will be an overlap that would allow for direct collaboration. However, we agreed to maintain contact with the team at North Yorkshire should an opportunity for KE arise. The HDRC team was happy to share their network with us and put us in contact with the recently established York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority (Y&NYCA) which has allowed us to invite a representative from the organisation to sit on our Advisory Board.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 1: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Engagement - ongoing 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Our partner in SYMCA has facilitated our engagement with multiple teams within the ONS, whose existing work we largely draw upon. Our engagement with ONS is particularly valuable in light of our aim to align with established ONS analytic methods and frameworks in order to ensure credibility, comparability, and robustness in regional economic analysis. So far, our discussions have focused on topics such as data standardisation methodologies, access to updated regional datasets, missing data from the ONS archive, and the application of the ONS Clustering Project used to categorise similar local authorities into larger geographical groups. Furthermore, engaging with the ONS has led to a more complete understanding of what gaps are present in data analytics provision for local authorities and how YHODA can add value to existing and ongoing work in this area. These activities are also a good opportunity for us to strengthen existing collaboration on regional data analytics between SYMCA, ONS, and YHODA.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 1: Regional Emissions Budgeting Framework Project (REBFP) Engagement - ongoing 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We are currently engaging with a UoS-based researcher on a semi-regular basis for KE purposes. Although this engagement is not likely to result in wider geographical reach, it has allowed us insight into models and tools that we could utilise for YEP while providing support to research that aligns with YPIP themes around climate action. More specifically, we have gained insight into predictive models built in Python and alternative tools for dashboard development (e.g., Looker Studio) that have informed our approach to forecasting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 1: Yorkshire & Humber Policy Engagement & Research Network (Y-PERN) Engagement - ongoing 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We have engaged in discussions with a data scientist who works cross-institutionally for Y-PERN and the UoS for expert consultation and KE. This opportunity has allowed us to gain further understanding of the methodologies, standardisation techniques, and data visualisation used in the analysis of business demography across different local authorities in Yorkshire and the Humber region. Our discussions so far have focused on ensuring methodological consistency across local authorities, particularly in relation to handling data skewness, outliers, and variations in business size distributions. These topics are of particular relevance to us given the heterogeneous nature of the geographical area we cover. Although this engagement is not likely to result in wider geographical reach, it has allowed us to establish a direct relationship with a partner organisation whose members are likely to make use of our project output and are well-suited to provide further consultation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Work package 2b: University of Bradford research planning meetings 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Initial engagement has included discussions on the planned research and programme with the following:

Bradford Producing Hub (ecosystem stakeholders; local; Bradford, 2 participants)

Bradford 2025 City of Culture Evaluation Team (ecosystem stakeholders; local; Bradford, 2 participants)

LEAP (ecosystem stakeholders; local; Bradford, 2 participants)

Bradford Renduchintala Enterprise Ecosystem - BREE (ecosystem stakeholders; local; Bradford, 4 participants)

All of these meetings were to help in formulating the research plan and identifying support and engagement for its implementation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 2b: York St John conversations and planning meetings 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Had conversations and planning meetings with groups related to YPIP research, specifically The Leap and Mind the Gap. Outcome of these are planning project proposals in relation to YPIP, in the form of an event in Sept with Mind the Gap and CIYF application with The Leap.

Not directly YPIP, but connected. The Institute for Social Justice at YSJ hosted an event with our VCSE partners focusing on impact - 23 attendees. Included mentioning the CIYF.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 3: Derwenthorpe Case Study Development 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting 1. with Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust officer around Derwenthorpe

Meeting 2. with community representative

Meeting 3. with groundsman at Derwenthorpe site

Three people in total

These engagements were a mix of general public (residents of the case study site) and the developers and managers of the site.

Most significant outcome was agreement and permissions to work at the case study site - and to communicate the aims and objectives of YPIP
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 3: Green Estates Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Meeting with Roz Davies to identify how WP3b can collaborate with the Demonstrator project - and to link St.Nicks and City of York Council to the Sheffield site

Just the project team attended
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 3: Live Model Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact In January 2025 YHCC commissioned an independently-facilitated 'Live Model Game' workshop for 20 retrofit stakeholders from around Yorkshire & Humber region. This used an active research methodology to the stakeholders to collaboratively analyse the barriers to housing retrofit and in particular the different roles and needs of policymakers, finance providers, installers, and the owners and occupants of houses.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Work package 3: Meeting with CYC and N&NY Combined authority to discuss LEAP model development for these regions 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 11 July met with Shaun Gibbons and Issy Burkitt, CYC Climate officers, and Lucy Allis combined authority

30 July - further discussions with Y&NY Combined Authority Lucy Allis; Fiona Protheroe and CYC representative (Issy Burkitt) about the potential of LEAP and discussion of key demands from the LEAP model
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Work package 3: York Central Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact York Central Engagement

Meeting with the Governors of the York Central site to identify potential YPIP activities at the new development

Approx. 15

City of York

Conservation groups from across the city including community group representatives

Most significant outcome was the connection to these stakeholders
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 3: York Climate Commission Buildings Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 10 May, 2024: 7 people, including 54 North Homes housing association; York Chamber of commerce buildings group and CYC.

15 November 2024

28 February 2025
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description Work package 3: York Climate Commission Meetings 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact - Annual Meeting of York Climate Commission on 9 January. Discussion with buildings experts on conservation areas (e.g. Amy Sommerville) from Joseph Rowntree Trust. About 100 people there from community representatives, industry, local authorities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Work package 3: York Climate Commission Steering Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact York Climate Commission Steering group

6 September, 2024

11 December, 2024

6 February, 2025
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description YHODA Advisory Board 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact We have established an Advisory Board consisting of 15 representatives from key stakeholder organisations (e.g., Combined Authorities) and two community representatives (pending). Overall, we have achieved representative geographical coverage of the entirety of Yorkshire and the Humber region. The board meets quarterly and we held our first meeting in January 2025. The board allows us to gather direct input and feedback from our key stakeholders which we are using to understand the needs of future YEP users and thus tailor our work to meet their needs. Additionally, it allows us to establish or deepen our relationships with relevant stakeholder organisations and expand our network for future engagement and consultations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description YHODA Management Board 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact We have established a Management Board that meets bimonthly and oversees the day-to-day operations of YHODA. In addition to the three core project members, our board includes a data expert from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA), the Regional Economic Development Lead for the University of Sheffield (UoS), and a data analytics expert from the Information School at UoS. Engaging with the boards on a regular basis allows us access to project-relevant information and the professional networks of our board members. This has offered us numerous opportunities to expand our engagement and participate in knowledge exchange (KE) with internal and external experts across the region (e.g., ONS).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025