Research Services

Understand the challenges of an area and build a narrative

Knowledge of small area data availability and quality

Develop new, robust indicators and insight about local areas

Identify patterns and trends to create local area typologies

Apply knowledge and understanding of data about neighbourhoods

Our team are experts in neighbourhood level data and can help you be confident in the data and analysis you are basing decisions on.

All our projects are based on in-depth knowledge of:

We know it’s important to understand the overall story about an area without masking hyper-local challenges. We bring the two together by:

Presenting key challenges with breakdowns and analysis for different geographies
Being clear on what data can tell you and what it cannot
Identifying local focus areas for intervention
Highlighting the local areas with the most acute needs
Making connections between national and regional challenges and the impact at local level

There is a lot of data out there. Our team works to sort the noise from the important issues, so you can focus on making change happen.

We build comprehensive and evidence-based narratives to help target resources by:

We don’t just analyse existing data. We work with and combine indicators to develop new measures of need and provide new insights.

We use our expertise to:

Weight, combine, standardise and transform pre-existing data
Source and select the most relevant data
Explore how indicators interact and what can be compared
Work on high profile, national research like English Indices of Deprivation and Community Needs Index.