YPIP: Yorkshire policy innovation partnership

YPIP strengthens collaboration between university academics and policymakers in Yorkshire and the Humber to develop evidence-based policies that support local communities.  This initiative focuses on inclusive growth, sustainable living, and data analytics, with special attention to marginalized communities.

YPIP is a UKRI-funded project that builds on the existing multi-sectoral partnership working between academia, local government and community organisations in Yorkshire and the Humber across the 4 Mayoral Combined Authorities: York and North Yorkshire, Hull and East Riding, South, and West Yorkshire. The project looks to develop additional regional structures and processes that incorporate and empower low-income, marginalised and/or spatially isolated communities – truly ‘working with’ these groups rather than ‘doing to’. 

The project will be working on place-based initiatives with communities in their places, with a focus on improving standards of living through:

• addressing inequalities through inclusive business practices and creating pathways into economic activity through entrepreneurship and the creative economy

• cutting carbon emissions in historic built environments and demonstrating climate action in diverse places.

The diverse stakeholders working across these will also have an input into creating a shared facility to access and analyse local and regional data sources. This will recognise community-generated data, provide learning from previous initiatives, and reduce duplication.

YPIP will explore ‘what works’ locally and what can be scaled up to regional policy innovations, and aims to develop a legacy of collaborative cultures and systems change.

SEI at the University of York is a partner on the Yorkshire Policy Innovation Partnership (YPIP), focusing explicitly on work package three: climate-ready historic built environments.