What we’re doing

Our work packages

Our collaborative project team are working on demonstrator projects and sites to explore ways universities can use their academic expertise to help local stakeholders e.g. businesses, local and combined authorities, and residents in local areas to explore innovative policy approaches to solving the socio-economic challenges they jointly face.

Accessible data for inclusive decision-making

Good work and better business

Culture and creative industries

Climate-ready places

Communities in their places

Accessible data for inclusive decision-making

Aims to develop a regional data hub that provides open-access data and tools that support inclusive, evidence-based decision-making across the region. By integrating public data into accessible and interactive dashboards, the hub supports local partners and communities in understanding local trends, defining community needs, and shaping policies that promote sustainable economic growth.

Good work and better business

Aims to reduce inequalities through supporting inclusive business practices, by creating a Yorkshire and the Humber inclusive business network to share good practice amongst the community. This work package looks to understand what makes good practice through studying local good examples, and aims to create a space where disadvantaged communities can come together with employers to understand how they can benefit one another.

Culture and creative industries

Aims to reaffirm the significance of culture in our lives and its importance to the prosperity of the UK; and 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.

Climate-ready places

Aims to accelerate climate action and nature recovery by improving the application of relevant evidence to policy and practice. The specific strands of work package 3 are retrofit to supporting heritage building to become more sustainable in their energy usage; land use change to enable reduced negative environmental impact and nature recovery; and working with good examples of where communities are engaging in environmental projects and building environmental resilience.

Communities in their places

Aims to develop and support the YPIP Community Panel, and work collaboratively with panel members and local organisations and communities in Hull, North Yorkshire and Sheffield/South Yorkshire to review and draw learning from examples of community-led action. They will work with examples of this good practice in these areas. This cross-cutting theme will facilitate the coming together of local communities, voluntary and public sector organisations to build a collaborative space or community of practice to create change together.

Yorkshire

Reaching across the region

Our collaborative project team are working across Yorkshire to deliver place-based activities and connecting with stakeholders to scale-up and replicate learnings in other parts of the region.