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Transforming Climate & Health research through community leadership
How collaboration between academics, researchers and community-led research can shift power back to the people most affected by climate change.
Read →InsightDesigning health messages that actually land
Five principles from our work with diverse audiences.
Read →ReportOur Voice on Bowel Screening
A review of health literacy videos in mother tongue as a way to drive uptake of bowel screening.
Read →ReportOur Voive on Cancer Screening II
Health literacy sessions designed to tackle health inequalities. Delivered in mother tongue across Tower Hamlets and Newham, in partnership with the Somali Senior Citizens Club.
Read →Case studyImproving bowel screening uptake in global majority communities
Understanding and removing the barriers that stop people taking up life-saving screening.
Read →InsightWhat Are We Doing When We Say We Are “Listening”?
This is a long-form blog that is deliberately reflective, theoretically grounded, and rooted in People Street’s lived practice. I’ve written it to think with Spivak rather than simply about her, and to show how her questions actively shape how People Street designs, holds and approaches holds community research. I draw directly on Spivak’s own questions and provocations from Can the Subaltern Speak? and explicitly connect them to design justice, outreach, power, mediation, and the ethics of representation in research. Where Spivak’s thinking is referenced, it is grounded in our practice
Read →Case studyThreads in Common: A Creative Mental Health project as a form of resistance
Mapping the gap between services and the people who need them.
Read →Case studyOur Health, Our Data
Our Health, Our Data is a 9-month project which will culminate in a Roundtable in September 2026. The aim of the project is to engage asylum and refugee communities to explore their perspectives on health data to access care, data linkage, data stewardship, consent and data for health research.
Read →InsightWhy community researchers reach where surveys can't
Lessons from two decades of work on the ground.
Read →ReportOur Voice on Welfare Reform
The purpose of this research was to surface the living experiences of the communities most impacted by welfare reform. Our aim is to act as bridges into communities traditionally excluded from mainstream conversations.
Read →ReportOur Voice on Climate & Health
Listening to the neighbourhoods most exposed to poor air quality and a changing climate in East London.
Read →ReportOur Voice on Cancer Screening I
Surfacing the barriers to cancer screening across East London amongst global majority women.
Read →InsightOvercoming Obstacles: 8 Frustrations of User Researchers
In the fast-paced world of technology teams, there are many challenges to navigate. For user researchers, designers and product managers, these challenges can be particularly daunting when you’re also attempting to adopt inclusivity as a practice. Our research retros with partners offers an opportunity to reflect on the pain points, fears, desires and vent frustrations. Let's explore the top 8 frustrations we hear most often from our colleagues.
Read →InsightHow to achieve Design Justice
So you found our post, that means you’re either lost or are on a journey to embed inclusive design. You’re here now! So why don't we start in the middle since it's rather boring going from the start. At People Street, we use the term Design Justice with a capital J to refer to practices which embed equity and intersectional thinking along the design process. There are many principles governing our praxis. In today’s blog, we are going to unpick 3 of these principles to demonstrate how you can achieve gold-standard design wherever you are in the world. Let;’s treat this as an inquiry and explore the questions you could begin asking yourself. Are you ready?
Read →Case studyDigital Asylum
Since 2023, People Street has been supporting the User Centre Design colleagues to actively test asylum and migration products and policies with the communities who need to access these new services. This is our flagship Design Justice project. It is evidence that centring the experiences and voices of the most excluded communities can reduce digital exclusion. We work inclusively. The work is led by people with lived experience. Asylum communities are shaping services.
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