YPIP is a regional partnership working on new and better ways of sharing knowledge and making decisions to improve local lives and places in Yorkshire.
YPIP has a unique position cutting across academia, policy, and communities.
We want to use our platform to bring together information and good practice on the local, regional, and national scale.
Case studies
Leeds Anchor Network
Leeds Anchor Network connects the city’s largest organisations across different sectors who come together to explore how they can increase their local contribution.
Creating the Shipley Sustainable Community Hub
Kirkgate Community Centre and Hive Bradford came together to increase the sustainability, longevity, and reduce environmental impact of their aging community building.
The Centre for Co-production and Peer Research (CoPPeR) Network
A flagship co-production research project in Bradford led to the creation of the CoPPeR network, as involving communities results in better research.
Living 4 Moments – creating inclusive environments
Living 4 Moments offer bespoke training, consultancy, and coaching around inclusive business practices.
ADAPT study
Collaborative and creative approaches to developing support for stroke survivors to stand and move more.
Reports and Guidance
A Rapid Global Review of Place-based Urban Resilience
The Green Estate CIC commissioned researchers from the University of Hull to undertake a deep dive into global definitions of ‘place-based urban resilience’ to help...
Civic University Network – Civic Field Guide
Like any serious expedition, creating lasting civic impact requires the right equipment, detailed maps, weather awareness, and a reliable compass to guide your journey through...
Lloyds Bank Foundation – The Change Maker’s Toolkit
Are the people you support always feeling the consequences of bad decisions somewhere else in the system? The Lloyds Bank Foundation have produced a toolkit...
Good Work: Review and Evidence
This evidence and policy review produced by the YPIP 'Good Work and Better Business' team explores what 'Good Work' means, why it matters to individuals,...
Putting Relationships First – The case for relationship-centred communities, organisations and systems
The Relationship Project Case Maker assembles the evidence base for putting relationships first, describing why relationships matter, what great relationship-centred practice looks like, and how...
LPIP Hub – Glossary of Terms
A vital step toward building a shared language that strengthens collaboration across diverse sectors in place-based policy innovation.
Y-PERN – The Story of Devolution
A simple explainer video of Devolution in Yorkshire and the Humber
Citizens Advice – Economic activity and health inequalities
How labour market experiences sustain health inequalities
One Creative North
The Northern creative corridor - a place of change
The King’s Fund – Doing With: reinventing public services in a time of crisis
If the UK’s public sector is to avoid irreversible decline, we need a radical shift from a ‘do to’ to a ‘do with’ mindset, led...
LPIP Hub – ‘Placecast’ podcast
PlaceCast is a Local Policy Innovation Partnership (LPIP) Hub production based at City-REDI, University of Birmingham. Our new podcast is essential listening for those keen...
Re:State – Trusting Place: improving the lives of local people through place-based approaches
This report sets out recommendations to inform the Local Government Association’s (LGA) dialogue with government and its members in support of ‘place-based’ approaches to public...
Newsletter archive
NOW LIVE – “Gerrin’ on wi’ it” podcast series
This podcast series reveals the power of connection - bringing together researchers, policymakers, and local leaders to tackle Yorkshire and Humber's most pressing issues.
Gerrin’ on wi’ it – our upcoming podcast series
Gerrin' on wi' it! A Podcast series about collaboration in Yorkshire and the Humber. We've teamed up with our Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and...
Working Together for Fairer Recruitment
Last month we delivered a series of three workshops with around 20 participants in each session, bringing together Roshni participants and employers from across Yorkshire,...
Reflections being made across the YPIP project
YPIP is a new way of working for colleagues across the project. This project presents both opportunities and challenges in bringing together academia, policymakers, and...
‘Not another toolkit’ – How do I REALLY influence decisions being made that affect me, my work or my local area?
We brought together a small but mighty group of representatives from academia, policy making, and community to create an open, honest and vulnerable space to...
The new YPIP website has launched
This will be the place for an overview on all the great work we’re delivering, the latest updates and progress across our work packages and...
The 22 funded projects awarded through the Communities Innovating Yorkshire (CIY) Fund announced
Yorkshire is a testbed for government research and innovation funding being allocated through communities, businesses, and public sector organisations for the first time...
I’m Me Festival – identity, representation and inclusion in the arts
We had the pleasure of attending the I'm Me Festival to find out more about the two year ‘I'm Me’ project where artists...
Final decisions made for projects to be funded through The Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund
The Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund received overwhelming interest...
Resource pack for Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund applicants
The Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund received overwhelming interest with over 200 applications and the review process...
Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund applications closed and now under review
The Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund closed for applications on Sunday 23 March and received overwhelming interest...
Local stakeholders tackle retrofit policymaking in climate action game
The Yorkshire and north bank of the Humber Policy Innovation Partnership (YPIP) is a UKRI-funded project operating in Yorkshire...
Our Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund is now live for applications
The Yorkshire and north bank of the Humber Policy Innovation Partnership (YPIP) is a UKRI-funded project operating in Yorkshire...
Networks
LPIP Hub
What we do:
The Local Policy Innovation Partnership (LPIP) Hub seeks to address nationwide issues through local partnership and place. By working with local LPIPs, the Hub aims understand and solve local challenges around the UK through innovative and effective service-driven approach to place-based policy making and public service delivery.
Our thematic areas:
- Communities in their places
- Cultural recovery
- Environment: living and working sustainably in a greener economy
- Inclusive and sustainable local economic performance
- Innovation
- Skills
- Felt experiences
- Place leadership
- Business cases
- Public procurement and innovation
- Professional standards for place-based research partnerships
- Data for place
- Governance and devolution
Who to contact:
Stuart Mitchell, Centre Manager [email protected]
Y&H Climate Commission (YHCC)
What we do:
We convene a Regional Policy Forum whose focus is on supporting Policy Makers to enable effective and accelerated climate action.
Our thematic areas:
- Rapid emissions reduction
- Climate adaptation and resilience
- Nature restoration
- Supporting just transitions
Who to contact:
Naomi Hirst, Policy and Public Affairs Manager [email protected]
Y&H Applied Research Collaboration (YHARC)
What we do:
We deliver applied research to improve health & wellbeing.
Our thematic areas:
- Mental Health, Healthy Families, Older People, Urgent Care.
- Health Economics, Implementation Science, Knowledge Mobilisation and Improvement Science
Who to contact:
Kate Robinson, Knowledge Mobilisation Lead [email protected]
Y&H Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC)
What we do:
We provide research, expertise & network support for policy & university collaborations.
Our thematic areas:
- Inclusive Growth
- Devolution
- Training & capacity for academic policy engagement
Who to contact
Susan Hampshaw, Director, HDRC Doncaster [email protected]
Yorkshire Policy Collaboration (YPC)
What we do:
We build capacity for social science and policy collaborations.
Our thematic areas:
Working with the Universities of Huddersfield, Leeds, Sheffield and York, we focus on the social sciences
Who to contact:
Ella Howes, Partnership Manager [email protected]
Y&H Policy Engagement & Research Network (Y-PERN)
What we do:
We provide research, expertise & network support for policy & university collaborations.
Our thematic areas:
- Inclusive Growth
- Devolution
- Training & capacity for academic policy engagement
Who to contact:
Y&H Council Policy Forum
What we do:
We convene policy officers across the 18 authorities on shared priorities.
Our thematic areas:
- Policy application
- Visitor economy
- Energy & low carbon
- Social Care
- Migration/Asylum
Who to contact:
Peter Ollerenshaw, Regional Policy Officer [email protected]
Yorkshire Universities (YU)
What we do:
We provide research, expertise & network support for policy & university collaborations.
Our thematic areas:
- Inclusive Growth
- Devolution
- Training & capacity for academic policy engagement
Who to contact:
Peter O-Brien, Executive Director [email protected]
Partners