Expertise
Our work spans three core areas: empowering people, shaping places, transforming businesses
People
Employment, Skills & Labour Markets
Helping partners understand where the jobs, skills gaps and barriers to work are, through labour market research, strategies and evaluations, so they can target investment where it changes the most lives.
Health, Wellbeing & Inclusion
Helping partners understand and remove the barriers that hold people back from good health, work and opportunity, through research that listens to lived experience and evaluations that show what works.
Places
Place Making, Property & Transport
Researching, appraising and making the case for the regeneration, property and transport schemes that help places thrive.
Energy, Low Carbon & Climate Change
Helping places and businesses seize the economic opportunities of a cleaner, greener economy, with practical plans that create jobs, cut costs and build stronger local economies.
Visitor Economy, Culture & Sport
Measuring what culture, heritage, sport and tourism are worth to a place, and helping organisations make a confident case to funders. Our work spans research and mapping studies, visitor number, revenue and impact modelling, impact assessments and evaluations.
Businesses
Business Support, Enterprise & Productivity
Helping partners design, deliver and improve business support, from strategies and implementation plans to impact assessments and evaluations that show what works, for whom and why.
R&D, Innovation & Technology
Helping universities, places and partners turn research into real-world impact. Our work spans research and market studies, R&D and innovation strategies, feasibility studies, business cases for new facilities, and evidence of research impact for the REF.
Sectors & Clusters
Finding the distinctive assets a place can build on, looking ahead to the markets of the future, and setting out practical steps to grow clusters that raise productivity, spark innovation and create new firms.
Inward Investment & Internationalisation
Helping places win and keep investment, sharpening their investment proposition, improving the investor journey and building strategies that grow exports and open new markets.
