The World Values Survey in Great Britain: Examining Values Polarisation in Britain and the World

The Evolution on Rural Tour aims to transform biology education in rural primary schools. The Evolution Bus will tour rural primary schools, providing targeted professional development for teachers and exciting learning experiences for students.

• [Future goals: Establish a community land trust to develop truly affordable housing.]
• [Launch a local energy cooperative to generate renewable power and reduce bills.]
• [Campaign for the entire borough to become a plastic-free community by 2030.]
• [Create a comprehensive network of safe cycling and walking routes across the area.]
• [Advocate for a universal basic income pilot to address poverty and inequality.]
• [Push for the council to declare a biodiversity emergency and adopt a action plan.]
• [Develop a community response team for climate-related emergencies and disasters.]
• [Build a physical hub for activism with meeting rooms, resources, and a café.]
• [Increase representation of campaign supporters on local committees and boards.]
• [Expand digital tools to include an app for reporting issues and mobilizing quickly.]

Throughout the project, research-based evaluation will be shared with stakeholders and used to guide planning and approaches. Molecular Fizz is an interdisciplinary and participatory action-research and drinks-nutrition project.

Covid-19 vaccination outreach

The project will empower young people to identify the mental health issues that they see as most important and to engage their peers in discussing and exploring these topics. The findings will be shared with key decision-makers and researchers. Daily Life Ltd are developing and testing the Roving Diagnostic Unit, which aims to trigger and cultivate public interest, fascination and debate around mental health, its diagnosis and its treatment. Through the project, people with experience of mental distress will co-produce participatory adventures to 'diagnose' local cultural centres. involves a series of inspiring talks and workshops, followed by ed gels a weekend hackathon to explore how we can broaden our perceptual universe.

Lorna W Harries

We will bring together people from a variety of backgrounds and provide them with the space, facilities and tools to prototype new ideas that enhance, expand and augment the senses. Science is for Parents Too: making a national impact Science is for Parents Too aims to engage parents with the Key Stage 2 and 3 curricula. This final addition to the initiative offers an insight into the newly-revised science GCSE. Seeking to make science education a topic for everyday dinner table conversation, the project informs parents about the wide array of study and career options available, and develops children’s aspirations in the process. The project also lays the foundation for wider national roll-out. It empowers young people to be fully involved in the whole lifecycle of the drinks production chain, from understanding nutritional elements and developing recipes, to manufacturing processes and branding.

The 14-month pilot phase takes place across schools, training colleges and youth clubs in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is linked to the ongoing Company Drinks project. Gutted is a theatre production that offers a shared physical space for people to reflect on the impact chronic illness can have on the lives of sufferers and those caring for them. An autobiographical one-woman-show, it draws on the experiences of performer Liz Richardson, who herself suffers from ulcerative colitis. Through humour, sensitivity and a bold contemporary theatre style, the production investigates the boundaries that cause us to feel shame.

Transport for Wales Remit letter 2021 to 2022

During the financial year 2015-16, the People Awards received 251 applications. 41 of those applications were funded, giving an overall funding rate of 16% that year. Exploring women’s health using radio as a tool Using radio as a storytelling tool, the women involved in this project will explore different forms of mental health among black and minority ethnic (BME) women. This will include the possible causes of and treatments for mental health problems, the stigma surrounding mental health and the effects of medication. Our film aims to give the family, friends and carers of people who have dementia, and who speak English as their second language (ESL), an insight into the science behind the condition.

Dr Charlotte Haigh

Abdullah and Leilah tells the story of an elderly Iraqi man who has lived in England for many years, but who finds himself living in a care home after being diagnosed with dementia. Abdullah’s memory of English, a language he has spoken for 50 years, has disappeared, and he has reverted to speaking his first language, Arabic. This is common among those with ESL and dementia. Abdullah’s loss of English leaves him isolated from his daughter, the other care home residents and the carers who look after him. MH:2K – a youth-led approach to exploring mental health MH:2K aims to help tackle some of the issues surrounding young people’s mental health. Urban Escape is a participative experience which explores how our choices, actions and physical activity affect our neurological, biological and emotional states.

ALEX PRITCHARD

Together, they create and enjoy their own matchday pie for the community club’s players, using foraged ingredients including oyster mushrooms, nettle seeds and mugwort from their local area, blending the world of football with a newfound connection to nature, and sharing the results on social media. The film, which will be shared on TikTok and Instagram, sees Jamie and Tom foraging for nettles pitchside and boiling them up to make nettle tea - which wasn’t to everyone’s taste! The players also tucked in to handmade vegetarian pies made with foraged ingredients which helped power the team on the pitch. Jake Wiseman and James Ginn, creatives at VCCP, said: “Amateur footballers spend time in nature every weekend, yet their connection with it rarely goes beyond the 90 minutes they spend on a grass pitch. Extra Time with Nature aims to change that, encouraging them to appreciate the things around the pitches in the parks they play in a little bit more.” The activation is part of a wider ‘Extra Time with Nature’ campaign which features players from the community football club across billboards nationwide to encourage football enthusiasts to notice the natural world beyond the lines of the pitch Traditionally, footballers are engrossed in the action on the pitch, often overlooking the natural surroundings that host their games.

Hugh Hartford

‘Extra Time with Nature’ rewrites this narrative, inspiring players to deepen their bond with the environment. Football is the most-watched and most-played sport in the UK, with 2.1 million people participating monthly. Yet, many players and fans don’t associate time spent outdoors with actively connecting to nature. Research shows this connection enhances mental health, improves well-being, and encourages pro-environmental behaviours that benefit the planet. Alongside his football career, Tom is Managing Director of ChopValue UK, and is on a mission to divert over 20 million chopsticks per week from landfill in the UK and Ireland - saving around 1 million kgCO₂e in the process. It includes an immersive exhibition, an event programme and a series of secret tours which examine the impact of daily activities on the brain.

Urban Escape will give a practical introduction to how consumer EEG sensors can be used to capture brainwave data, while exploring connections between the brain, body and mind.

Assisted suicide is when a terminally ill or disabled person is assisted, usually by a doctor, to end their life.

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His circular economy business transforms discarded bamboo chopsticks into high-performance materials for furniture, interior design features, serveware, and more. Tom Davies, footballer and MD of ChopValue UK, said: “I’m proud to support initiatives that can redefine how we should be interacting with our planet. By incorporating sustainability into everyday passions like football, we can foster a culture of appreciation for nature and how it can benefit us all.” The campaign was developed by creatives Jake Wiseman and James Ginn from global creative network VCCP, in collaboration with the Agency for Nature, a pop-up initiative focused on transforming young people's relationship with the natural world by embedding it into youth culture. ‘Extra Time with Nature’ will appear on billboards across the UK, and the matchday foraging experience will reach online communities through platforms including TikTok and Instagram. Award-winning photographer Catherine Hyland, known for capturing people’s connections to the land they inhabit, shot the campaign’s imagery.

Lucy Emmerson

Working with three Field Lane Football Club players, Hyland documented moments of distraction where they became mesmerised by the everyday nature surrounding their pitch. Playful headlines like “eyes on the cloud, lad”, “absolute state of this pitch” and “caught bird watching again” tap into classic football vernacular, adding humour and relatability. AGENT: James Gerrard-Jones at Wyatt Clarke & Jones TALENT: Jamie Quince-Starkey, (Down to Earth Regen) & Tom Davies Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘People Awards’. People Awards have been replaced by the Public Engagement Fund. Previously, People Awards supported public engagement projects that encouraged the public to consider and debate issues raised by health and wellbeing research. Consistently in UK opinion polls, the majority of the population support legalising this 'right'. But many disabled people find it a worrying prospect and their voices are not always heard. This will be remedied in Assisted Suicide: The Musical, where comedy, cabaret and glitz will provide the backdrop for issues such as the right to die, choice, quality of life, the role of the state and the impact of legalising death. Living Well Oxford is a collaborative partnership between Science Oxford, the Oxford Academic Health Service Network and the Oxford Health Experiences Institute. We will develop the ‘Ageing: from birth and beyond’ pop-up shop, including interactive exhibits and activities. The opening of the shop in May 2017 will tie in with Dementia Awareness Week. We will work closely with local community groups and health researchers to develop the content for the shop, before hosting it in Templars Square shopping centre, which serves some of Oxford’s most socio-economically disadvantaged groups. The Marked: UK theatre and homeless sector tour The Marked is a vivid mask theatre piece about a young man sleeping rough in London. It examines the effect of childhood trauma on adult psychology.

We will tour The Marked between March 2016 and June 2017, and expect to reach 4,150 people nationwide – including 600 people experiencing homelessness.

• [Challenges: Limited volunteer time and burnout among core team members.]
• [Faces opposition from developers and business interests with conflicting agendas.]
• [Struggles with apathy and low engagement from parts of the community.]
• [Deals with bureaucratic delays and opaque decision-making processes in local government.]
• [Limited funding restricts the scale and reach of campaigns and resources.]
• [Difficulty in reaching diverse demographics, especially younger and minority groups.]
• [Media coverage can be biased or insufficient, reducing public awareness.]
• [Legal costs for challenges can be prohibitive without pro bono support.]
• [Balancing multiple urgent issues without diluting focus or effectiveness.]
• [Maintaining momentum after setbacks or slow progress on key campaigns.]

The Gender Roadshow is a pilot scheme which is trialling a new audience-driven model of touring and presenting performance about transgender bodies and the science surrounding them.