Terpsi has joined Nesta as an analyst in the healthy life mission. Accurately measuring obesity rates across ethnic groups is essential to tackling health inequalities. This analysis explores how ...

Will was a Senior Programme Manager working on Nesta's people-powered public services and education programmes. Senior Data Science Lead, Data Analytics Practice Rachel is senior data science lead in ...

Reformulating everyday food and drink products to be healthier can make a big difference in public health. Reformulation means changing the ingredients of products to reduce unhealthy fats, sugars, or ...

A typical dual-fuel household currently pays roughly the same amount for their gas bill (£833) as electricity (£884), even though they use more than four times more gas than electricity (on an ...

There are no policy recommendations in this report – Nesta’s new blueprint for halving obesity already makes it possible to identify the most effective policy interventions to pursue and at what scale ...

There is good evidence that loneliness causes worse mental health and wellbeing outcomes. The impact on mental health is potentially substantial, for example, people who report feeling lonely are 2.25 ...

Andy Marsden works as a Design Lead at Nesta. Kevin was an analyst for the sustainable future mission, helping to explore scalable solutions for accelerating the decarbonisation of heating across UK ...

Using measures of the home learning environment and the quality of parenting we constructed a measure of ‘home disadvantage’ identifying children with challenging home environments.

Tom joins Nesta as a senior policy advisor for the Rapid Insights Team. Head of Policy, Rapid Insights Team Lucy was the Head of Policy for Nesta and the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), and led the ...

If we want to reduce inequality in child development for families living on a low income, we need a change in narrative and better policy implementation that reflects the incredible value of the ...

This report primarily uses data on heat pumps from EurObserv’er for the years between 2011 and 2021. The majority of the heat pumps in this dataset are air-to-air heat pumps, many of which are used ...

The UK has about 23 million gas boilers, all heating the oldest housing stock in Europe.Despite attempts to encourage heat pump adoptions, it’s expected that 10 million new boilers will be fitted ...