Data could have huge benefits for councils; helping them better understand their citizens’ needs and behaviours, targeting services more effectively, stopping what isn’t working, and allocating resources to where they have the biggest impact.
Key learnings from the pandemic include the need to challenge longstanding assumptions of quantitative evidence as ‘gold standard’ if we are to truly engage with the complex social, political and cultural aspects of COVID-19 in the UK
The importance of algorithmic systems to our daily lives has grown rapidly during the pandemic. Used in the wrong way, however, they carry serious potential for increasing social harms and inequality
Mental health is nearly always seen as an individual issue requiring individual solutions – yet in reality, it’s as much a problem for groups and organisations. One legacy of COVID-19 could be a revolution in how we measure mental health
