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People living with a number of health conditions and urgent care needs often have poor broadband provision, a new study has found, which could impact the quality and availability of care that they are able to receive.

A project designed to help more people in Stoke-on-Trent to get to grips with digital technologies is concluding with a commitment to do more.

Keele researchers have helped launch a “Good Work Charter”, a framework designed to improve opportunities and access to decent work for people in the Midlands.

Refugees from around the world have been engaging with their new community in a football tournament on Keele’s campus which aimed to break down barriers and improve their integration.

My Grandad was one of the most intelligent people I ever met.

Keele University has launched a new scholarship scheme in response to the Ukraine crisis, which will provide over £1m in financial support to refugees or those with similar status in the UK.

Dr Tolu Olarewaju writes for The Conversation.

A Keele University researcher is lending her expertise to a new project that will help increase digital inclusion and reduce isolation within local communities in Stoke-on-Trent.

Researchers have successfully trialled an intervention which can prevent the onset of depression and loneliness amongst the most vulnerable in society.

Keele researchers are set to work with Staffordshire Fire and Rescue to develop mental health support for older adults that can be delivered through the fire service, in an innovative new project.

Dr Maddy Thompson writes for The Conversation.

Over 70 students from Keele University’s Business School have worked alongside local charities to support their recovery from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Keele Institute for Social Inclusion (KISI) is supporting Cheshire West and Chester Council to shape poverty-related policy through new research, which is set to be presented at an online showcase event.

This collaborative project explores the decent work policy implications and challenges for the Midlands in response to the current coronavirus crisis.

Introducing a new research collaboration between Cheshire West and Chester Council and Keele University, laying the groundwork for the development of a ‘routes out of poverty’ community-based social learning programme for unlocking community wealth and community ownership amongst the communities that have borne the harshest economic injury through the crisis across our borough.

Research collaboration between Cheshire West and Chester Council, Keele University, drawing on expertise of Chester University’s RECAP team and partners Mondrem and Symposia.

Creating a Closer Relationship between Lived Experience and Evidence-based Policy Making in the Context of the Declaration of the Poverty Emergency

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Deirdre McKay as Deputy Director of KISI.

A new study led by Keele University will explore the use of environmental storytelling as a tool to reduce urban air pollution in India.

Inclusive Transformation: a post-covid social science research agenda for the Midlands

Research grant success awarded by The Health Foundation to Dr Laura Pritchard-Jones, Dr Mark Eccleston-Turner and Professor Alison Brammer

Dr Montero-Diaz is Principal Investigator for the Network and Dr Luis Gabriel Mesa Martinez from the Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) is the Lead International Investigator.

Researchers at Keele University, in partnership with New Victoria Borderlines and Chase Community Solar, are leading on a work package focussing on embedding user-centric perspectives within the design of the SLES.

Live streaming tomorrow, Will Foster talking to Neil Carr

The interview with John Henderson CEO of Staffordshire County Council will stream Friday 10 July 2020

Today - Friday 3rd July at 12 noon - join the Youtube livestream as we launch a mini-series of pandemic interviews as part of the MBA leadership, complexity, inclusion lunchtime talks

This short documentary intends to raise awareness about another aspect of racism, that is more subtle and nuanced, sometimes referred to as 'Microaggressions'.

The second UKRI Enhancing Place-Based Partnerships Micro Lab

Microlab focusing on 'Inclusive Recovery' took place on 11 June 2020

Performance poet Bohdan Piasecki is announced as artist in residence for a project to explore vulnerability in collaboration within Keele Institute for Social Inclusion.

A Keele University historian has partnered with a local not-for-profit youth organisation on a new research project which aims to help open up brownfield sites in the UK’s most deprived urban communities.

Ceri Morgan and Rebecca Goldsmith have produced the first issue of e-zine.

With funding from the Keele Institute for Social Inclusion, Keele historian Ben Anderson has been working with local community interest company Urban Wilderness to investigate the potentially tranformative role of brownfield sites for the UK’s most deprived urban communities.

Keele University will be working with stakeholders from across the region to engage in research, as part of a new approach to public engagement.

Keele psychologists have partnered with a housing provider to improve local people’s lives through a new study.

Derek McGhee and Siobhan Holohan have been awarded the tender to evaluate The Improving Community Cohesion and Integration in Stoke-on-Trent Project that was conducted by Stoke-on-Trent City Council in Shelton and Normacot.

Literature academics from Keele University are opening an innovative “Poetry Pharmacy” to dispense literary “first aid” as a way of bringing the therapeutic benefits of poetry to the local community and to support mental health.

On 29 June 2019, we invited local musicians of all ages and people keen to find out about music to the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme

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Trans Youth and Education: National Issues and Solutions was a one-day KISI-funded event which took place at Keele University on 20th June 2019.

A community animation workshop with Syrian refugee Teachers employed by the Syrian NGO Multi Aid Programme (MAPS)

A group of Keele and Syrian academics met in Beirut to consolidate their relationships on public health and social inclusion to support Syrian Refugees.

Food Unwrapped took place at Keele Hall on 9 November as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Festival of Social Sciences 2018, a UK wide celebration of public engagement with social science, which included over 300 different events.

The Keele Institute for Social Inclusion was delighted to welcome group of faith leaders from across Staffordshire to the University.

Keele University has launched a new research Institute to tackle the issues of social inequality on a local, national and global scale.

On 9-10 May, 2018, a delegation of senior representatives from the IFRC (Geneva) visited Keele University and New Vic Theatre to explore ways of enhancing existing research links between CASIC and the Red Cross.