Research and Innovation

Our research ambitions are simple: we help teams communicate across disciplines and sectors, find shared goals, build on strengths, and focus on the questions that really matter. We don’t just connect people, but make sure that the collaboration is meaningful, balanced, and capable of producing solutions that stick. We help you shape your project ideas, expand your ambitions, align your plans with funding priorities, and make sure your solutions reach the people and places that matter, so your research can truly make a difference. 

We also administer various funding schemes that help keep your collaborations meaningful and give you the support needed to turn your ideas into real progress. Across our four challenge areas, this approach helps turn ideas into solutions that fight inequality, advance ethical societies, improve health, and strengthen democratic engagement. 

Co-creation at Leeds Institute for Societal Futures is about more than working together. It’s about making sure change actually happens.