29th September 2023 In her new book Nuts & Bolts, Roma Agrawal points out that the electric breast pump was invented much later than we might have thought: the 90s. Her explanation for the delay is that engineering has long…
Transparency in innovation funding: What are the invisible barriers facing women?
25 October 2019 Are funders reaching the widest possible pool of innovators to publicise their programmes? What are the barriers that face women that we may not be able to see? Research Associate, Rob Callaghan, is researching where and why these…
Why we are taking a People Powered Results approach to Arts and Health
9 December 2019 In April 2019, we announced a new Arts and Health programme with Arts Council of Wales and Welsh NHS Confederation. We want to help increase the role of the arts and creativity in keeping people in Wales…
Why measure public sector innovation? What we’ve learned so far from the Nordics
8 January 2020 For the past 6 months, Y Lab has been exploring how countries around the world measure public service innovation in different ways. Here’s what we’ve found out so far. At the end of November, we went to Denmark…
Introducing Public Services Pioneers: tools for change and how to use them
18 February 2020 Alexis Palá explains more about our event: What is it and why should you come? We may be pioneers, innovators, experimenters, creatives, change-makers, leaders, and decision-makers, but, we are who we are through and by others. We need each other.…
Arts and health in creative isolation: What now?
27 March 2020 HARP programme manager, Rosie Dow, explores what we know so far about arts and health in the context of a coronavirus pandemic. A couple of weeks ago, I drafted a blog about time and innovation. Specifically, how our…
HARP COVID-19 Sprint Challenge
27 April 2020 How can the arts support people living through lockdown? How can access to arts interventions be improved? Our sprint challenge aimed to build our knowledge to support more people in Wales. When the pandemic began in March…
Flintshire Council becomes first in Wales to introduce Mockingbird programme
11 May 2020 Council in North Wales will use £1.15million in Innovate to Save funding to roll-out the Mockingbird family model for looked after children and their foster families. A new way of delivering foster care is being rolled-out across…
New Public Involvement Group for Arts and Health Research
18 May 2020 We are launching a public involvement and patient experience in research group (PIPER) for Arts and Health in Wales. Read more about what it will do and how to join. What is PIPER? Launched in 2019, our Arts…
Evaluating a programme: What have we learned so far about Innovate to Save?
28 August 2020 How and why does innovation happen in public services? Generating more research and understanding of this question was a key objective for Y Lab in delivering Innovate to Save. Research Fellow, Wendy Hardyman, shares some of what we’ve…