We are Y Lab

Supporting Social Care Innovation in Wales

User Research Programme

Public Service Pioneers 2021

Reaching and Sustaining New Horizons

Public Services Pioneers was a virtual experiment into community building in 2021 which aimed to bring together some of the most interesting voices in UK public services. The content created and curated for the event wanted to unite and inspire people across public work - whether designing, delivering or researching public services - to do things differently.

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.

Briefing

Research Briefings: Arts and Health

Find out more about how our arts and health research is linked to policy in Wales.

Report

Y Lab Keeping Wales Safe Interim Report Online Document

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1 March 2022

Keeping Wales Safe Interim Report

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