4 October 2021 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. Y Lab, the public services innovation lab for Wales, begins…
How we used creativity to run an all-day online event
27 October 2021 We recently ran an all-day event on Zoom for our HARP projects to share their work. Jessica Clark explains how we avoided Zoom fatigue and injected creativity to make it a success. Eighteen months into a global…
A Decarbonisation Handbook for Wales
3 November 2021 As the global community is meeting for the next two weeks in Glasgow to discuss climate change at COP26, the news will be filled with stories of new plans, pledges, and agreements to address the massive challenge of decarbonisation. Countries are working both…
Should We Be Hopeful?
15 November 2021 By now, we know the story—the climate crisis is here, there, and everywhere, and it is terrifying. We should be worried, things look bleak. But COP26 will once again bring together world leaders promising change—so, should we…
We don’t talk about public procurement (but we should)
9 February 2022 Public procurement, or the purchase of goods, services, and works by public authorities can play a vital role in achieving societal objectives like accelerating decarbonisation or building supportive communities. However, unlocking its power requires us to think…
Keeping Wales Safe Interim Report
The programme, called Keeping Wales Safe: Covid Behaviours, involved the partnership helping three teams based in Welsh Local Authorities to pilot interventions in their area. At the outset of this work in the summer of 2021, Y Lab conducted an evidence review. It was…
Creative Ageing & Social Prescribing
25 May 2022 Y Lab’s Sofia Vougioukalou was successful in securing a British Academy Innovation Fellowship to look at creative ageing and social prescribing in Wales The British Academy Innovation Fellowship scheme is designed to enable researchers in the humanities and social…
Public Service Pioneers 2021: Our Learnings
30 August 2022 Public Service Pioneers 2021: Reaching and Sustaining New Horizons was a virtual, month-long learning event that happened in March 2021. This article shares: Public Service Pioneers (PSP) was a people-powered event that went through two co-creative phases. It…
What do you really need to innovate?
31 July 2019 We know that the innovation can’t happen with just funding alone. Through two iterations of Innovate to Save, we’ve learned that for public service organisations to change the way their services run, they need different kinds of…
Using the arts for health and wellbeing
18 July 2019 Y Lab has launched a new programme of work to explore the contribution of the arts in keeping people healthy in Wales. We’re delighted to announce that we’re launching a new programme of work in partnership with…