Prosperity & Resilience

What are the institutions and practices that help people and society to prosper? How do they help us build resilience against economic, social, political or environmental shocks? Research in our Prosperity & Resilience theme addresses these key questions and spans a host of challenges facing modern society. These include four beacon research areas: housing and cities, UN and global order, climate policy and justice, and inequality. Our researchers work with many external partners, including schools, businesses, government and NGOs, and across boundaries to respond to pressing social problems.

Innovative tool empowers LGBTQ+ travellers

Families flourish through co-created reading initiatives

Promoting the joy of reading and improving children’s literacy skills in Whitley

A female teacher encourages a child sat at a table to read from a book. Two other children sat beside them are listening.

Helping multilingual children find their voices

Four health professionals wearing blue scrubs stood around a training mannequin, taking part in a simulation-based training exercise at a hospital ward.

Teachers share skills with hospital staff

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Shaping thought on flexible working

Discovering land for housing migrant workers in Kochi, India

Reducing missed outpatient appointments and health inequalities through AI

Uncovering hidden stories from Oxford Road

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Safeguarding children in conflict and crisis

Empowering smallholder farmers to overcome climate challenges

Influencing communications to influence behaviour

Sustainable development through natural resource management

Secretarial superpowers: the key to business success

Ensuring fair developer contributions for the community

Dodging disaster: breaking the link between commercial real estate lending and global financial crises

‘Exceptional’ benefits for healthcare funding

Greener building design helps China stay cool

Power to the people: facilitating neighbourhood planning

The acceptable face of European extremism

The case against guilt by association

Modern laws for modern wars

Teaching literacy: As easy as ABC?

Don’t quit! Motivating foreign language students

Fixing Britain’s broken housing market

AI healthcare for an ageing China

Sustainable investment, sustainable growth

Building better relationships for organisations

Taking the right amount of risk: Using psychology to inform investment choices

Finding peace in a fragile world

The value of stability

Picturing challenges of life in paradise

Intelligent solutions to a costly issue

Marvellous Mums

Learning maths through storytelling

Priority setting in the NHS

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Safeguarding children in conflict and crisis (2018)

Reading 2050 vision

Whitley for Real (2018)

Development viability within planning (2018)

Value to the Valuers

Educational outsiders

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Keeping children safe

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China’s smarter hospitals