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Christmas update 2024

23 Dec 2024

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

Designer/researcher maternity cover

1 Jul 2024

Join our fieldteam!

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
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We're looking for a quantitative researcher

20 Nov 2017

Community & regional regeneration: the temperature of the field & policy

18 Oct 2017

Newington Estate

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

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Recruiting a new researcher

14 May 2017
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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
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UCL Institute for Global Prosperity Public Soundbites

26 Jan 2017

Visiting Copenhagen

23 Jan 2017
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What we've been doing in 2016

22 Dec 2016

Creative places for children

25 Nov 2016

office

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
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Our Jane's walk

5 May 2016
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The cities of the future: smart or happy?

22 Mar 2016

Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes: in memory of his life and work

21 Dec 2015

End of 2015 update

21 Dec 2015
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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
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A waste of space: HCA workshop

24 Nov 2015

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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
Big Neighbourhood Data

June Update 2015

22 Jun 2015
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Make City Berlin

12 Jun 2015

Community resilience & climate change

22 Apr 2015

What would improve wellbeing in Lambeth & Southwark?

22 Apr 2015

Welcome to news & events

13 Apr 2015

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Integrated Network for Social Sustainability: Global Conference 2015

7 Apr 2015
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Social Life in Copenhagen

12 Mar 2015
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Open Source Housing Crisis 2015

1 Mar 2015

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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
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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

'Trading Places' exhibition

4 Sep 2014

Elephant & Castle Regeneration Walk-Shop

4 Sep 2014

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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
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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
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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
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