As promised, we’d love to show you around a few more of the Si Team’s neighbourhoods. Everyone lives in a neighbourhood - those small local places where much of daily life unfolds and where people can feel most connected. At Si, neighbourhoods sit right at...
The LSE Internship Fund Scheme made it possible for me, Emma, a second year International Social and Public Policy student, to take up a role at Shared Intelligence. As a young person, I am acutely aware of what it’s like to navigate the pathways into...
Creative health – arts and creative activities which deliver physical or mental health benefits - are now seen across academia, public health and local government as a viable method for health improvement and demand management. But creative health is still a tiny part of the...
Government guidance and local leaders recognise the need to retain a local, independent, business voice in the transfer of Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) functions to local and combined authorities. However, LEPs worked hard to secure diversity of business voice and there is more than one...
At Shared Intelligence we are convinced the time is ripe for Total Place #2 write Phil Swann and Tony Blake. Local councils and their partners face a combination of challenges that require close collaboration and engagement with local communities and businesses: responding to coronavirus; supporting economic recovery;...
The idea of one ‘new normal’ is a dangerous blind alley writes Ben Lee. It seems increasingly likely the COVID-19 pandemic is already leaving a permanent legacy. Had the crisis lasted only a few days or weeks then perhaps a ‘return to normal’ might have been possible. However,...