Published inBright Harbour·Jun 15, 2022What the UK public care about when it comes to food — 15 min summary.A Bright Harbour Collective effort authored by Caitlin Connors, Laura Malan, Muriel Esposito, Claire Madden, Christian Reynolds, Nefeli Trikka, Mel Cohen, Faun Rothery, Siobhan Canavan, Sammy Saint Warrens, Fan Sissoko, Efun Coker, Sarah Tulej, Rebecca Birch and Claire Sheppard. With thanks to our brilliant partners at the FSA and FSS…Food15 min readFood15 min read
Published inBright Harbour·Jun 15, 2022Real Stories: The UK Public’s interests, needs and concerns around foodThe fully accessible version of this booklet for people with visual impairments is available here. Real Stories drawn from deep research on UK public experiences around food The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) commissioned the Bright Harbour Collective — in partnership with AndGood and Esposito Research and Strategy — to explore the public’s experiences, views, needs and priorities…Food3 min readFood3 min read
Published inBright Harbour·Jun 25, 2021Common standards series: post-session participant careAuthors: Harry Cerasale and Caitlin Connors The approach to participant care discussed in this post — including our open-source wellbeing pack — was developed with trusted partners at AndGood (Laura Malan & Fran Cook) and clinical psychotherapist Mary Coyne. We are deeply grateful for their work and input. Our thanks…8 min read8 min read
Published inBright Harbour·Dec 31, 2020Bright Harbour’s 6 Operating PrinciplesConvening teams with diverse perspectives is a core part of our operating model. One of the wonderful consequences of working this way is that it makes visible the norms, assumptions and histories shaping our practice. Designers take a different approach to method, sample and ‘rigour’ than researchers. People with lived…5 min read5 min read
Published inBright Harbour·Sep 4, 2020Common standards series: Researchers & designers, we need to unf*ck our consent formsBright Harbour are making a number of our resources open-source and publicly available, including our consent form template for research. Feel free to use it/share it/ adapt it as you please. If you’ve got ways to make it better, please tell us. Of course, a good consent form alone does…Research5 min readResearch5 min read
Published inBright Harbour·Aug 15, 2020When a pandemic hits and the fridge is empty: food in the time of Covid-19Research summary from Bright Harbour research for the FSA, authored by Caitlin Connors, Laura Malan, Siobhan Canavan, Fan Sissoko, Maria Carmo, Claire Sheppard and Fran Cook. With huge thanks to our clients at the FSA for their trust and guidance, particularly Michelle Patel & Richard Bridge. In partnership with the…Food Insecurity11 min readFood Insecurity11 min read
Published inBarnardo's Innovation Lab·Oct 25, 2019The 5 Operating Principles of Barnardo’s Service Design TeamHow we approach service design at Barnardo’s As our team has grown and matured, and the depth and breadth of work we carry out with and for Barnardo’s continues to expand, we felt a need to articulate our core values and principles as a team. We’ve created a living document…Design4 min readDesign4 min read
Apr 24, 2019Big, fond, tearful goodbyes — and a happy jump into new watersSocial researchers often have greedy toolboxes; I’ve made a career out of being seriously greedy. Here’s the thing: every single one of the social research folk I’ve met are in it for the impact. I’m no exception. And for all our work to make a blind bit of difference, we…Researchers7 min readResearchers7 min read
