Building an anti-poverty research community
Since the beginning of 2024 the Austerity and Altered Life-Courses team have been working collaboratively with Manchester Central Food Bank, Barlow Moor Community Association and the Dandelion Community to co-produce grassroots collaborations for positive social change in local low-income communities.
Funded by the UKRI Impact Acceleration Account and supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, this project embeds long-term collaborative working with grassroots leads across Manchester, to re-frame anti-poverty debates in the city to be more creative, progressive and community led. It has strengthened mutually beneficial relationships between the project partners and scoped out possibilities for future collaborations, co-learning and impact.
Our collective activities include the co-creation of resources (see below) and creative workshops to explore difficult social challenges, using tools such as community podcasting and collaborative zine-making. Have a look at some of the zines made at our workshop.
Resources
How to work together as an anti-poverty research community
This resource was built from workshops and discussions with collaborators. It highlights the most important values and and most pressing challenges for people and groups working together as an anti-poverty research community.
How to nurture our anti-poverty research community
This resource was built from discussions around working with policy-makers. It identifies four guiding principles for policy-makers during anti-poverty research work. The principles are: Engage; Empower; Support and Invest.
- Download a pdf version of 'How to Nurture an Anti-Poverty Research Community: Guiding Principles for Policy-Makers'