Research projects

A global creative challenge inviting storytellers to bring future scenarios to life, showing how the choices we make today will shape the world of 2050.

Bridges for Ukraine is a UCL Institute for Global Prosperity initiative supporting Ukraine’s recovery, bringing together Ukrainian and international expertise for sustainable inclusive reconstruction.

This project explores how government agencies can use behavioural data, including administrative records of community activity, to better understand place-based wellbeing.

The Maisha Bora (‘Good Life’) Study is an innovative, community-led research project exploring what prosperity means to people living in three unplanned settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

A collaborative and transdisciplinary project to research equity based disaster risk management interventions.

The Asia Prosperity Research Hub explores what prosperity means and entails in Asia

The Hamra Prosperity Index project empowered teams of citizen scientists to develop targeted interventions based on the needs identified through their research in Beirut's Hamra neighbourhood.

Maurizio Marinelli is part of a new collaboration on 'Food security initiatives as social sustainability in post-COVID-19 European cities'

This collaborative project brought together citizen scientists to explore what a ‘good life’ means for residents and communities in North Kensington

Exploring how current processes of financial inclusion (FI) can be transformed to create inclusive prosperity that reflects community priorities

The Social Prosperity Network explores Universal Basic Services

Skyroom is an award-winning technology and urban development company which delivers precision-manufactured homes in the airspace above existing buildings.

Rebuilding Macroeconomics aims to transform macroeconomics into a policy relevant social science by putting direct human interaction in response to fundamental uncertainty at the centre of analysis.

The Livelihoods and Politics project investigates how 'bottom-up' livelihood recovery strategies can foster politically inclusive recovery visions and lead to new policy pathways.