We fund research and development projects relating to people’s welfare at all stages of life. Our mission is to advance social well-being; we want people to feel engaged with, and supported by, wider society and to experience a good quality of life, regardless of their background.
Factors such as family, work and income can positively or negatively affect people in different ways. We want to understand how and why that is, and how people are differently affected depending on their class, gender, ethnicity, disability, age, and location.
Where people are disadvantaged, we want to identify what policy changes might address that and how the risks people face can be mitigated.
We also aim to understand the impact of digital technologies on people’s welfare, alongside the work of the Ada Lovelace Institute.
