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Welcome to the Community Noticeboard!

This is a space for ideas that we’ve collected from our local and wider London voluntary & community sector. Our neighbours. These ideas represent what local charities, community or citizen groups considers most important, right now, to further what they do, fill a knowledge gap, or change and improve something for some of the most pressing social issues. If you are looking for dissertation inspo, you might just find it here.

This is the start of your participatory dissertation journey! If you find an idea that strikes you, use the Expression of Interest button to explain why you are interested and what experience or skills you can bring to develop the idea into a project… and your dissertation.

Important: You will need to complete an intake meeting with the Community Research Initiative team (book here) and fill out our stay connected form (you can find here) before you will be connected with an organisation.

Favourite this tab and don’t forget to check back during January and February because new ideas will be added each week. Can’t find anything suitable? Check out our Directory where you’ll find lots more organisations that are keen to hear from a student but haven’t yet articulated a specific idea for the Noticeboard is all. Having issues with the process? Please let us know at [email protected] where we’ll try to help.

Capturing health and wellbeing impacts of martial arts classes
Thai Boxing Fighters Academy
Thai Boxing Fighters Academy are seeking researchers to capture health and wellbeing outcomes from their martial arts classes. This could involve a range of quantitative and qualitative methods.…
Young People
How important is a university’s performance on climate and social justice issues to current and prospective students?
People & Planet
Universities are powerful institutions that create knowledge and help shape the beliefs and habits of the next generation. Increasingly, universities have been reframed as service providers of…
Climate & Sustainability
Open to student ideas: African Community School
African Community School
African Community School provides inclusive services to local adults, children and families living on low incomes, supporting young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve and develop new…
Community organising
Open to student ideas: co-creative research to support community mental health cafe
Jami - Mental Health For Our Community
Head Room welcomes research that doesn’t just study community but takes part in it. We’re interested in work that holds practical value for our café and contributes to wider conversations about…
Health & Wellbeing
Educating for heroism: Exploring the impacts of character and values-based education
Being The Cure
Being the Cure is closing a moral gap that the education system has left wide open. In London, most children grow up without access to formal character education, a privilege reserved for wealthier…
Education & Pedagogy
Open to research ideas: Childminding UK
Childminding UK
Childminding UK, formed in 1991, supports childminders across the UK, offering professional support and training to promote high quality childminding. Their work has been recognised by Princess Royal…
Children & Families
Mapping Possibility: Policy & Spatial Analysis for Urban Densification with Tiny-Home Villages
homefolk
A strategic research project exploring land use, planning frameworks, and spatial opportunities for the implementation of tiny-home villages in urban & sub-urban environments. Student researchers…
Climate & Sustainability
Open to research ideas: Come out of Hiding CIC
Come Out of Hiding: The Lighthouse Network CIC (COOH)
Come Out of Hiding: The Lighthouse Network CIC (COOH) is a Christian, BME-led, community-rooted social enterprise dedicated to nurturing, equipping, and empowering whole and healthy young people,…
Community organising
Exploring the impact of Home Support with Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice
At Noah's Ark Children's Hospice, we help babies, children & young people and their families to make the most of every day. We are North and Central London's children's…
Children & Families
Systematic Review on the prevalence of Head Injury in Modern Slavery Survivors and Asylum Seekers
Helen Bamber Foundation
Helen Bramber Foundation is a human rights charity. We give survivors of trafficking and torture the strength to move on. With an all encompassing care for the whole journey, survivors have the…
Exploring effectiveness of Suicide Awareness & Self-Care Workshops for University Staff
London Nightline
As part of our contribution to The Stay Project—a seven-year initiative supporting those on the frontline of suicide prevention across London—London Nightline is launching a new workshop designed to…