People-centred insight, innovation and social impact.
Frame is a non-profit research and social impact practice helping organisations transform insights into action. Drawing on lived experience expertise and collaborative problem-solving, we drive change that reduces health and social inequalities.
Projects
Flying Start Parent Journeys
Nesta and Cardiff Council
Our recent research collaboration with Cardiff Flying Start and Nesta, as part of its Fairer Start Mission, explored families’ journeys through early years services and identified opportunities for innovation.
How ‘blended’ services meet community needs
The Wales Centre for Public Policy in Wales
We worked with The Wales Centre for Public Policy to understand the opportunities and challenges of blending online and in-person approaches to meeting community need, gathering practice-based evidence to understand different approaches to blending, what makes them work well, who they work best for, and what gets in the way.
Growing Up in Dudley
Dudley Metropolitan Brough Council
Dudley Council commissioned us to find out what it’s like to have a baby, bring up a child or be a young person in Dudley. Working with Yello Brick, we talked to over 200 people across Dudley and brought the findings to life through reports, stories and illustrations. The qualitative research informs strategic priorities around public health and services for families, children and young people and helps shape the future of Start for Life and Family Hubs in Dudley.
Evaluating the FNP Dads Parenting Support Programme
FNP, Shropshire NHS Trust
We are thrilled to be evaluating the Family Nurse Partnership's (FNP) pioneering 'Dads at Their Best'programme, a 3-year pilot intervention that aims to improve parenting skills, confidence and parent-child attachment.
Evaluating community resilience
Public service organisations, and health boards
In 2021 we worked with public service organisations and health boards across Wales to help them evaluate programmes designed to increase community resilience. We evaluated systems leadership and public narrative programmes with community leaders and young people as part of a regional approach to tackling poor social and health outcome in North Wales. We also evaluated the Covid Community Support Hubs Pilot which has provided an emergency support to communities during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. Evaluating community resilience.
Understanding data poverty
Good Things Foundation, Nominet & Virgin Media O2
A worrying number of households and individuals are not able to access or afford the amount of internet data they need to function in society. Over the past few years our work on this topic has included research for Nesta to understand what data poverty is and who’s affected and how many people experience data poverty in Wales and Scotland. We also worked with Local Trust to explore community-led action on data poverty’. And in 2021 we evaluated the pilot of the National Databank for Good Things Foundation, Nominet and Virgin Media O2.
Exploring pandemic experiences
Throughout the pandemic we saw that groups of people were missing from mainstream narratives about the impact of Covid-19 on people’s lives including: Participatory research with young people (age 15-18) to understand their experiences of the pandemic and their attitudes and behaviours around testing and self-isolating to inform the Test, Track and Trace programme. With funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, we also undertook narrative research with refugees and asylum seekers, young people not in mainstream education, and people with sight loss and blindness as part of our Conversations That Count project.
Team
Rosa Robinson
Rosa has extensive experience in designing and delivering participatory research on health, wellbeing, equality and inclusion. She cares about ensuring that the ‘less heard from’ voices in society (people who struggle to participate or are often overlooked or excluded) are listened to and have opportunities to play active roles in creating social change. Rosa passionately advocates people-centred design, creative methods and systems thinking.
Michèle Aitchison
Michèle is an experienced community engagement practitioner and facilitator. She has vast experience of working with people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, including asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable people with complex needs. Miche is committed to enabling people to improve their wellbeing by making connections with their local community.
Ben Castle
Ben is a trained teacher and counsellor who works with children and young people with additional needs and is interested in psychotherapeutic approaches to increasing well-being.
We’d love to hear from you
We work across the UK but we’re based in Cardiff. If you’d like to work with us have a project idea or would like to find out more about what we do, please get it touch via the form or email hello@framecollective.org.uk