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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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.

What did we do?This image displays a prototype leaflet from the council, designed to inform residents about incoming clean heat neighbourhoods. The leaflet states the initiative aims to make homes ...

Nesta’s clean heat neighbourhood work is exploring how households engage with and respond to the idea of a coordinated clean heat transition within their local area. The project aims to understand how ...

Excess weight costs the UK a staggering £126 billion per year. Of that, the productivity cost makes up around £31 billion – that’s equivalent to a 3p cut in the rate of income tax. This does not ...

Across the world, interest in mission-driven government is growing, and an increasing number of organisations are looking to adopt a mission-driven approach. Missions can transform the way ...

Oliver Zanetti is a senior mission manager in Nesta’s sustainable future mission, leading our work on the skills and capacity of the heat pump sector.

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 ...