YPIP brings together academia, policy makers, and communities to explore evidence-based decision making through place-based initiatives

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

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

attendees working together during a table exercise
November 5, 2025 by Lauren

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...

4 attendees at the Long Table and another attendee in the background observing
October 1, 2025 by Lauren

‘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...

September 10, 2025 by Lauren

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...

August 6, 2025 by Lauren

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...

July 2, 2025 by [email protected]

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...

June 4, 2025 by [email protected]

Final decisions made for projects to be funded through The Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund

The Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund received overwhelming interest...

May 7, 2025 by [email protected]

Resource pack for Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund applicants

The Communities Innovating Yorkshire Fund received overwhelming interest with over 200 applications and the review process...

April 9, 2025 by [email protected]

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...

March 3, 2025 by [email protected]

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...

February 3, 2025 by [email protected]

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

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:

Andrew Wood, Senior Engagement & Impact Officer [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]

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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:

[email protected]

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