Local Democracy Revisited (2011)
Investigation into the changing role of local councillors

Community 2.0
The use of computers, the internet and social media by the VCS, a joint research project with Race Online

Involving Communities: A legal duty?  (2010)
The impact of the Duty to Involve

Local Action  (2010)
Case-studies to show how community groups can work successfully with local councillors

Citizens and Local Decision Making  (2010)
What drives feelings of influence? A research collaboration with Urban Forum, Manchester University and Ipsos Mori

Community Power Empowers  (2010)
Investigation into successful community, cooperative and municipal renewable energy projects from across Europe looking at lessons for the UK


Inclusive Involvement Case Studies  (2010)
Case-studies showing how different public bodies involve different sections of the community

For all other previous research see our publications section