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British Academy Innovation Fellowship

How do the arts contribute to the improvement of health and wellbeing of older adults? Bridging the gap between diverse servicer users, service providers and policy makers engaged in social prescribing in Wales.

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Keeping Wales Safe Online Document

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1 March 2022

Keeping Wales Safe

The research team at Y Lab, in partnership with the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) and the People Powered Results team at Nesta, were funded by Welsh Government to

24 February 2022

Understanding Social Care Innovation

Social Care Wales : User research.

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9 February 2022

We don’t talk about public procurement (but we should)

Briefing

HARP Journal: November 2021

Welcome to the HARP Journal! Here we will share news and emerging learning from the ‘HARP’ (Health, Arts, Research, People) programme each month during 2021-22. This month’s theme is Delivery.

3 November 2021

A Decarbonisation Handbook for Wales

As the global community is meeting for the next two weeks in Glasgow to discuss climate change at

4 October 2021

New phase for Y Lab as Cardiff University becomes sole lead organisation

As our time as a partnership with Nesta comes to an end, Y Lab’s Director, James Lewis, reflects on some of the highlights and what’s coming next.

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15 March 2021

Announcing the HARP Nourish projects

Together with Arts Council of Wales, we are excited to announce 10 projects that will work on scaling and sustaining arts and health activity across the country.

Image shows two women, foster carers from Flintshire, walking in a park with a dog beside them.

5 March 2021

Sharing our learning from Innovate to Save

The Innovate to Save (I2S) Programme, run by Y Lab between 2017-2020, was an experiment in using blended finance to support innovation projects in Wales.