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About our Projects

ResPublica's projects fall into six streams. Should you be interested in contributing to any of our research streams or publications, please contact Asheem Singh, ResPublica's Deputy Director, at asheem.singh@respublica.org.uk.

Economy

ResPublica's Economy Unit aims to lead the debate on what is required if we are to build a more relocalised, remoralised economic model. We offer solutions rooted in a truly free marketplace, in which the barriers to market entry are minimized and wider entrepreneurship and ownership are encouraged...more

Welfare and Public Services

ResPublica's Welfare and Public Services Unit aims to redefine the terms on which we approach poverty-alleviation, the welfare state and the provision of vital public services in the UK today, by focussing on spreading ownership and aspiration and recapitalising the poorest members of our society. We explore new forms of asset creation and allocation. Our goal is to outline a modernised mutualism that empowers front-line professionals to improve their client communities, and develops an asset-engendering welfare society...more

Civil Society and Social Innovation

ResPublica's Civil Society and Social Innovation Unit produces cross cutting policies that empower us all from the bottom-up; that seek to invigorate and strengthen civil society so that it can take its rightful place it at the heart of our social and economic renewal. We engage with thought-leading ideas in the fields of social investment, charities policy, technology, political reform and more that promise to change the way are governed, that enable us to reduce the burden of regulation on individuals and communities, and which empower members of our communities to work on more equal terms with the state and with business...more

Latest projects: Modernising Gift Aid Contact: Asheem Singh and Samuel Middleton. more details

Children and Families

ResPublica's Children and Families Unit produces ground-breaking research on upbringing, child wellbeing and family role and formation. We explore the social, psychological and economic role of families of all shapes and types and the approach we take to raising and educating children in today's social institutions. We examine how the positive influence of family can be better enabled and platformed through existing public services...more

Environment

ResPublica's Environment Unit examines issues pertaining to the natural, human and built environments in our local communities. We explore the interaction of social responsibility and resource allocation on general well being...more

Security

Our rapidly evolving security needs provide one of ResPublica's most important streams of research. National Interest in the twenty first century requires a broadening of the security remit, which emphasises the importance of civil society, energy supply, local culture, and food security as well as the more traditional aspects of armaments strategy and diplomacy. The Security Unit will focus on these and other issues relating to Britain's engagement in the wider world...more