The challenge There’s a real bottleneck for support. People present with a mental health disorder and then have to wait. …
Building eBay’s support for social entrepreneurs
The Challenge Shift have helped us from the inception of eBay for Change to ensure that we are building the …
Inverting the question: RCT findings on reframing borrowing in terms of repayment
Findings from our second RCT with Fair Finance and Paul Adams exploring the role of repayment framing in online loan …
Supporting people affected by Covid-19 to access financial support and information
Immy Robinson and Louise Cooper share reflections on the design and prototyping process as Fair Finance launch a new online …
Empowering students and clinicians with mental health data
In-depth user research exploring the experiences and perspectives of college students and clinicians around opportunities for mental health innovation.
Human-centred moonshots: Putting people at the heart of mental health tech
Today we launch our report Empowering students and clinicians with data, the culmination of a two-year partnership between Shift and …
Covid-19 and financial vulnerability: What did we learn from contextual research?
In this blog, researcher Leonie shares what we learnt from conducting contextual research on the impact of Covid-19 on Fair …
Empowering students and clinicians with mental health data
The opportunity Student mental health is in crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. Colleges and universities across the UK …
Housing associations: act now to build trust with your tenants before the longer-term impacts of Covid-19 take hold
This is the second blog in our mini-series that explores the role that trust and relationship-building across the entire tenant …
What if the way we think about fixing misinformation is wrong?
Imran Khan, Head of Public Engagement at Wellcome, asks how we should look at the conditions that create misinformation online.
How can we make social media a healthier platform for health information?
Carla Ross, Research and Evidence Lead at our partner Wellcome, calls for the health and research sector to step up and play its role in creating a healthier internet.
Using data and insights to improve early years services
The challenge West London Zone does important, impactful work improving the lives of children and young people in West London, …
Specialist support for National Lottery Community Fund grantees
The Challenge When charities and social enterprises embark on major change and innovation, they’re faced with so many challenges and …
Catalyst COVID-19 strategy: building a scalable system for a sector-wide digital response
How, as part of Catalyst, we’re responding to the COVID-19 crisis.
Introducing the Relationships Observatory
Inviting you to observe, capture and share amazing examples of responses to COVID-19 that have relationships at their heart – all to help us learn for the future.
Powering nonprofits to respond to the crisis
The challenge Many nonprofits spent the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic working hard under immense pressure to implement quick …
Catalyst Digital Teams available to help charities respond to COVID-19
Are you a network of charities in need of digital support? Catalyst Digital Teams offer expertise to help you respond and adapt.
Encouraging Affordable Borrowing
In this report, published with Fair Finance, we share our RCT findings on anchoring loan amounts.
Coronavirus and social disruption
A view from the Relationships Project on how our lives and relationships are changing as a result of coronavirus.
Introducing Catalyst Clusters and some big collective ambitions
The Catalyst is a big opportunity to build digital capabilities as networks, fields and ecosystems, not just as individual organisations. Blog by Shift’s CEO Nick Stanhope.
Introducing the Digital Fund — and a different way of funding digital
Massive Digital Community Archives in Colombia: An International Partnership Towards Peace
This chapter in The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites explores …
Introducing the Digital Fund support team
Shop Digital: Understanding the influence of digital on shopping behaviours
Understanding how digital can nudge a healthier family food shop
The Challenge The shopping experience makes unhealthy food choices easier to find, harder to ignore and more affordable, meaning the …
Jon’s Antipodean adventure
Recently, Shift’s US Director Jon headed over to Australia and New Zealand for a tour of library, museum and community …
Gaming to tackle anxiety: what BfB Labs learnt from a low-fi pilot
The team at BfB Labs works to empower young people to improve their mental health by building engaging and effective digital …
MadeByPlay: social games that ignite dialogue, empathy and action
The challenge In order to make progress in any context, whether it’s a community or a workplace, well-functioning diverse groups, …
Five things we learnt about Tip in beta
For two years now, Shift has been working in partnership with NCT, the UK’s largest parenting charity. Our project, which …
Immersive gaming to tackle anxiety
Commercial Director Duncan and Innovation Lead Manjul address Mindtech 2018 conference.
Fusing game design with service design thinking
Get your new, free downloadable Game Service Journey map – perfect for anyone working in health tech, gaming, service design, UX, …
Designing a tool to help single parents build financial resilience
The Challenge Low-income single parents face significant financial pressures. The introduction of Universal Credit, combined with low wage growth, and …
Changing Places: Giving young people a voice on their local area
The Challenge “I liked making the video because it’s the most independent and creative thing we’ve done so far on …
Changing Places Pilot Summary
#ASFNOLA on Social Media
Ten things we’ve learned from designing and piloting a national campaign for young people with NCS
Over the past six months, we’ve been designing a new “mass action campaign” in partnership with the National Citizen Service. …
Healthier Internet: Making high quality health info easy to find and trust
The Challenge As false news is 70% more likely than verified news to receive a retweet, the spread of health …
Social media and the spread of health information
We are delighted to announce that Wellcome has appointed Shift as their insights partner for a new piece of research exploring the …
Gaming to treat anxiety co-creation workshop: A debrief
On Tuesday 8th May, we hosted the second co-creation session of this Innovate UK funded project. The challenge was to: …
Using game dynamics to treat anxiety in young people
BfB Labs, Shift, Mindtech NIHR and the University of Reading are delivering an Innovate UK funded feasibility study exploring the …
Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit: One Year On
This report summarizes some of the core findings of the Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit–themes that have also arisen in many other cultural heritage conferences and meetings over the past year:
- Safe Space for Disruptive Dialogue
- Funding for Transformative Gatherings
- Equitable and Ethical Collaboration
- Diversifying Technology Production in Cultural Heritage Spaces
- Integrating Community Archives Into Traditional Cultural Heritage Spaces
- Social Innovation and Rethinking Goals and Objectives in the Cultural Heritage Sector
Driving continuous improvement: Insights from funding social tech
Commentable version here. Report giving a set of 5 insights and 8 practical recommendations on how funders and social organisations can …
Tip: giving new parents high quality information they’ll love
The Problem Great information and support can help parents to feel confident and capable in the first 1000 days, aiding …
Luminova: A mobile game to tackle anxiety
I’ve been particularly impressed with how Shift have embraced the research literature and taken a genuine collaborative approach, working in …
Driving continuous improvement: lessons from funding social tech
There is one question that dominates our work at Shift and has done for the last 8 years: how do …
New designs on digital support for parents
NCT is nine months into a partnership with design charity Shift, to create a brand new digital service to help …
Not broccoli, not even chocolate covered broccoli, just chocolate.
Duncan Brown, co-founder of BfB Labs, explains the thinking behind developing our video game to improve young people’s mental health, …