Participation

Rethinking poverty: income, environmental health and dignity

SEI podcast / How we define poverty shapes how effectively our policies and investments respond to real needs.

6 March 2026 / Power in balance / Participation and Sanitation

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Intergenerational justice and youth participation

Other publication / This report gives an overview of intergenerational justice, youth concerns, and mechanisms for youth participation across Europe.

3 December 2025 / About Participation

Co-designing soft climate adaptation: citizen centred solutions across four European pilots

Journal article / This study examines a staged co-creation process implemented across four pilot regions to engage diverse citizen groups in shaping soft adaptation measures.

18 February 2026 / About Adaptation and Participation

Close up of hands holding a mobile phone, using it to take a photograph or video of two brown and orange butterflies on a round purple flower.

Increasing inclusivity in biological recording in the UK: progress to date and future priorities

Journal article / Eight UK organizations who run volunteer biological recording schemes gathered to evaluate their engagement and activities with underrepresented groups.

15 January 2026 / About Participation

Woman with baby in carrier on her chest rests her hand gently on baby's head. She is looking at mobile phone, using an app for analysing growth conditions in garden.

Appropriate technologies: for regenerative practices and ecological citizenship, yielding planet-centred design

Other publication / Introducing a new methodology for designers, technologists and citizens to engage with technologies in an ecologically interdependent world.

12 January 2026 / About Participation

Wide angle shot of a wood-panelled room full of groups of people sitting around tables. They are looking at Smriti Safaya, who stands with her back to the camera as she addresses them.

City Nature Challenged: reflections on the experience of UK City Nature Challenge Organizers

Journal article / Data from surveys, interviews and written responses are used to explore the strategies used and challenges faced by organizers of citizen science events.

9 January 2026 / About Participation

Street scene in North Yorkshire, with stone buildings, shops, benches and rainbow flags.

Unlocking retrofit uptake through community champions

Project / Exploring how local champions, trusted advice and accessible finance can support home retrofit uptake in York and North Yorkshire.

2026 / About Household energy and Participation

Frameworks and platforms can support inclusive and fair climate adaptation

Feature / At Adaptation Futures 2025, “Accelerating Adaptation into Action”, SEI researchers contributed expertise on climate finance, adaptation and co-production.

17 December 2025 / About Adaptation, Finance and Participation

Two teachers talking in a classroom, one holding a tablet while the other smiles and gestures, with empty chairs stacked on tables and pupil work displayed on the walls in the background.

CHEPA (Classroom HEPA) impact calculator

Tool / CHEPA is an easy-to-use calculator that helps schools assess how a HEPA filter impacts classroom air quality and energy use.

About Cities, Participation, Pollution and Wellbeing