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Suffolk coastal communities: give us your thoughts?
18 Oct 2024
Social Sustainability & Planning: Our response to the NPPF
24 Sep 2024
Clapham Park community researchers
5 Sep 2024
Rockingham Estate design workshops
19 Aug 2024
Kingswood Estate design workshops
15 Aug 2024
Wyndham & Comber Estate design workshops
13 Aug 2024
Join our fieldteam!
1 Jul 2024
Designer/researcher maternity cover
1 Jul 2024
Sevenfields Summer Festival of Health
17 May 2024
Business manger wanted!
12 Apr 2024
Understanding place based impact
26 Feb 2024
Kate Raworth comes to Downham
7 Feb 2024
Recruiting a new junior researcher/project support
25 Jan 2024
Let's talk about health!
5 Dec 2023
National Planning Conference
9 Nov 2023
The Politics of Place
12 Oct 2023
Social value measurement and the role of social actors
11 Oct 2023
Become a Community Health Champion for Downham, Grove Park & South Catford!
11 Jul 2023
Community champions programme launch
10 Jul 2023
Evaluating estate regeneration
5 Jul 2023
Civil society and governance in an age of crisis
29 Jun 2023
Social value: a decade of progress?
4 May 2023
Design District workshops
28 Mar 2023
Recruiting two new researchers
10 Feb 2023
Social Life winter update 2022
16 Dec 2022
Critical Conversation: working with people & communities with 'lived experiences'
14 Dec 2022
Social integration & placemaking: infrastructures of beloging
3 Nov 2022
Tackling loneliness through the built environment
31 Oct 2022
Co-creating Brent's new youth hub
12 Oct 2022
Launching Downham Community Research report & video
28 Sep 2022
People Powered Places launch
22 Sep 2022
Open House 2022: a walk around Walworth
8 Sep 2022
Workshop: The Beehive Centre community facilities
30 Aug 2022
Recruiting fieldteam members
13 May 2022
Researcher vacancy
13 May 2022
Looking for a new intern
9 May 2022
Our Jane's Walk
6 May 2022
Power relations in community research
24 Mar 2022
What's it like to live and work in Belgravia?
16 Dec 2021
What’s it like to live, work or visit in & around Liverpool ONE?
16 Dec 2021
Global dialogue: creating inclusive communities
2 Nov 2021
Walworth Town Hall community space: join the management board!
12 Oct 2021
What's it like to live and work in Mayfair?
8 Sep 2021
Old Oak projects evaluation: walking interviews
28 Jul 2021
*EXTENDED DEADLINE* VACANCIES: Recruiting two new researchers
27 May 2021
Living Local: where next?
18 May 2021
We're a Design Council Corporate Partner
19 Apr 2021
Looking for new field team members
7 Apr 2021
Connective Social Infrastructure launch
24 Feb 2021
Urban Depth and Autonomy: City Depth workshop
11 Feb 2021
Social Life 2020 update
18 Dec 2020
WATCH AGAIN: Social research in COVID-19 times webinar
10 Dec 2020
PODCAST: Nicola Bacon on social sustainability
8 Dec 2020
Social research in COVID-19 times
3 Dec 2020
Urban Future global conference, Lisbon
1 Apr 2020
Woodberry Down: community event
21 Feb 2020
NEW POST: recruiting a designer/junior researcher
14 Feb 2020
Edge Debate 96: Climate Responsive Urbanism
19 Dec 2019
Big Local Undercover Action conference
26 Nov 2019
Barnwood Trust social sustainability toolkit launch
20 Nov 2019
Webinar Urban Lunch Talk #7: From Test to Success
18 Oct 2019
Recruiting new researcher
11 Oct 2019
Social value research forum
5 Sep 2019
Social Innovation in Industrial Towns
2 Sep 2019
Sensing boundaries
20 Jul 2019
Assessing changing patterns of community resilience in Hounslow
3 Jul 2019
Missing Map Symposium
25 Jun 2019
Looking for Field Team members
14 Mar 2019
Ideas for Corby
6 Mar 2019
Social innovation in Corby: a participatory workshop
13 Feb 2019
Looking for new intern
14 Dec 2018
European Public Health Conference 2018
30 Nov 2018
Understanding Corby: a participatory workshop
15 Nov 2018
Future Innovation Forum 2018
29 Oct 2018
Workshops for a social sustainability toolkit for Seoul
22 Oct 2018
Value-Added: Making Design Quality Count
4 Oct 2018
GLA Specialist Assistance Team
6 Jul 2018
Update on our work, May 2018
14 May 2018
Whose Elephant? An exploration of local identities
12 Apr 2018
Changing places: stories of innovation and tenacity in Birmingham
23 Mar 2018
Future of London placemaking event
29 Nov 2017
We're looking for a quantitative researcher
20 Nov 2017
Community & regional regeneration: the temperature of the field & policy
18 Oct 2017
Walworth Tree Walk
3 Jul 2017
Walking & greening Walworth: an exhibition
30 Jun 2017
Future of London placemaking conference
28 Jun 2017
Unusual Suspects Festival 2017
14 Jun 2017
USAR conference 2017
13 Jun 2017
Making the collective city
8 Jun 2017
Recruiting a new researcher
14 May 2017
Looking for our next intern
11 May 2017
Jane's walk Walworth
6 May 2017
Space Syntax Event: How can we successfully extend existing places?
27 Apr 2017
Social Life joins Mayoral visit to Madrid
28 Mar 2017
IntenCity: intensification & social sustainability
7 Mar 2017
Social sustainability masterclass
16 Feb 2017
Notwestminster 2017
10 Feb 2017
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity Public Soundbites
26 Jan 2017
Visiting Copenhagen
23 Jan 2017
What we've been doing in 2016
22 Dec 2016
Creative places for children
25 Nov 2016
Social Life seeking intern
30 Sep 2016
Education, Place, Culture
27 Sep 2016
Nordic City Network
19 Sep 2016
Visit from Seoul Community Support Centre
8 Sep 2016
Supporting & valuing ethnic minority businesses in Birmingham’s local centres
20 Jul 2016
Supporting traders on the Narborough Road
11 Jul 2016
Social sustainability workshop for the Barnwood Trust
29 Jun 2016
Our Jane's walk
5 May 2016
The cities of the future: smart or happy?
22 Mar 2016
End of 2015 update
21 Dec 2015
Chris Holmes: in memory of his life and work
21 Dec 2015
Recruiting a new Director/Head of Projects and Business Development
16 Dec 2015
Looking for a new researcher/project coordinator
14 Dec 2015
Social Life speaking at London Property Summit 2015
25 Nov 2015
A waste of space: HCA workshop
24 Nov 2015
Seoul Social Innovation Conference 2015
16 Nov 2015
Social sustainability workshop for the Barnwood Trust
16 Oct 2015
Social Life hosts Korean Local Governors Club
27 Aug 2015
Social sustainability workshop for the Barnwood Trust
26 Jun 2015
June Update 2015
22 Jun 2015
Make City Berlin
12 Jun 2015
What would improve wellbeing in Lambeth & Southwark?
22 Apr 2015
Community resilience & climate change
22 Apr 2015
Welcome to news & events
13 Apr 2015
Integrated Network for Social Sustainability: Global Conference 2015
7 Apr 2015
Social Life in Copenhagen
12 Mar 2015
Open Source Housing Crisis 2015
1 Mar 2015
Urban Lab: Urban Practices
22 Jan 2015
Social Life speaking at Essex Ideas Forum
25 Nov 2014
The Social City: NLA breakfast talk
17 Nov 2014
UCL sustainability & resilience conference
4 Nov 2014
DPU – Social Development Practice
1 Nov 2014
Social Life keynote at Tai Pawb conference
16 Oct 2014
Social Life speaking at RTPI Scotland conference
7 Oct 2014
Elephant & Castle Regeneration Walk-Shop
4 Sep 2014
'Trading Places' exhibition
4 Sep 2014
Change by Design 2014
1 Sep 2014
Summer update 2014
7 Jul 2014
Towards an architectural anthropology
15 May 2014
Living in Tall Buildings: lessons for London?
10 Apr 2014
A new community arts hub for Roehampton?
7 Apr 2014
Building communities, not just houses
2 Apr 2014
Community resilience in Barcelona and Malmö.
10 Feb 2014
Urban Lab: Urban Practices
2 Jan 2014
Scottish Place Standard workshop 17th December 2013
17 Dec 2013
Our Autumn update
14 Nov 2013
Innovating Places: Social Frontiers
14 Nov 2013
Designing Coventry's City University initiative
8 Oct 2013
Placemaking and innovation in Malmö: two TelePresences
26 Sep 2013
Future Londoners
20 Sep 2013
TEDxCity2.0 live stream at Social Life's Office
20 Sep 2013
Our summer update
12 Aug 2013
Towards an anthropology of sustainability?
5 Aug 2013
Regeneration and Growth
4 Jul 2013
Somerleyton Road: Community-led development in Brixton
5 Jun 2013
Garden Cities: Are they still relevant?
17 Apr 2013
Social Life: Our first year
18 Mar 2013
Social Life of Cities in Chicago and Malmö
14 Mar 2013
Living at Beaufort Park
8 Mar 2013
Somerleyton Road Action Planning
7 Mar 2013
Why can't we live together?
17 Jan 2013
Urban Sustainability and Resilience
5 Nov 2012
Future Communities, socio-cultural and environmental challenges
31 Oct 2012
Social sustainability for Oxfordshire
10 Oct 2012
Happier, safer and more neighbourly?
28 Sep 2012
Ideas for London Salon No 2
12 Sep 2012
Home Builders Federation Planning Conference
11 Sep 2012
Chicago - Building Community Resilience in the South Side
18 Jul 2012
The Social Life of Cities - What is the designer's role?
27 Jun 2012
Building New Communities
18 Jun 2012