How our research has developed

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“What does prosperity mean to people living and working in East London?”

In 2021 we will launch a long-term study of prosperity in east London, tracking the changes that households in 12 neighbourhoods experience over a decade. This work builds on research with citizen social scientists, community organisations and London Prosperity Board partners that has been underway since 2015. Read more about how this research has developed over time.

Stage one: What does prosperity mean to residents in East London?

In 2015, citizen social scientists and IGP researchers collected over 250 interviews and conversations with people living in Hackney Wick, East Village in the Olympic Park, and Forest Gate in Stratford. We asked people three questions:

Acknowledgments

This research draws on significant contributions from an extensive group of citizen social scientists who have worked on designing, collecting and interpreting research, and we would like to thank and acknowledge their participation:

Sue Ansarie, Peter Bailey, Rhajesh Bhattacherjee, Miriam Chapman, Farhana Ibrahim, Montana Joseph, Akbar Khan, Leila Lawal, Nathalie Limon, Tony McKenzie, Jonathan Murray, Kyronne Parkes, Carrie Svinning, Ivy Tanzila, Ines Tercio, Fatima Uddin, Angela Williams, Nileema Yesmin, Nesrin Yurtoglu.

  1. What does prosperity mean to you?

  2. What supports you to prosper and live a good life?

  3. What prevents you from prospering and living a good life?

In 2017, citizen social scientists carried out more interviews in Hackney Wick, East Village, Canning Town in Newham, Heath in Dagenham and Coventry Cross Estate in Tower Hamlets.  

Alongside these interviews, IGP commissioned a survey of 750 households in these neighbourhoods to measure levels of prosperity based on the priorities people identified in the 2015 research. The result of the household survey were used to create the UK’s first citizen-led Prosperity Index.

  • Read a summary of the research findings here,

  • Stories from each neighbourhood here

  • See the results of the Prosperity Index here.

Find out more about how people in East London identify the most important factors leading to their own prosperity here