Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big ...

Understanding landlord challenges with home energy upgrades to find tools that support a clean heat transition in the private rental sector. Around a fifth of UK homes are privately rented. Landlords ...

Mapping the most significant obstacles for households to enable a quicker, easier, and more affordable transition to low-carbon heating. We believe that making heat pump installations quicker and ...

From Autumn 2024, Nesta, in partnership with the Ethos Foundation, brought together a coalition of partners across the early years to propose a high-level blueprint for how the new family hubs ...

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Previously Louise was Principal Research Advisor for Nesta’s Alliance for Useful Evidence. As part of this role, Louise was evidence lead in the development team for What Works for Children's Social ...

Developing more incisive policy asks around clean heat neighbourhood planning. Could planning the transition to low-carbon heat at a local level support householders, the supply chain and other key ...

Nesta is looking for an experienced early years expert-in-residence to shape local government policy and deliver impactful, scalable innovation.

Earlier this year we presented our landscape of innovation approaches. Since publishing this diagram we’ve received many helpful comments and suggestions. We’ve also created a list of approaches not ...

This guide outlines how the science of behaviour can help people to self-manage their health and wellbeing.

What is experimentation in policy or practice? And why is an experiment worth investing in? What can an experiment tell you? And when or where might it fall short? Answers to these questions are often ...

How lowering the cost ratio of electricity to gas permanently would help make heating greener The government's support for householders in the form of the Energy Price Guarantee not only kept energy ...