The Local Democracy Research Centre brings together experts from local government and academia to do practical research on some of the key challenges for local democracy around the World.
We are working with Queen Mary, University of London, to investigate how councils are using lenses like place and wellbeing to manage growth and achieve broad social aims. This work is supported by Research England. The fallout of the pandemic, precarious financial circumstances and increasing demand for statutory services have all put huge pressure on…
With support from the James Madison Charitable Trust, we are convening a network of council leaders and senior officers from across the UK, along with other experts, to investigate the future of local public institutions. The research is taking place over a series of online discussion workshops. New ways of working and new partnerships with…
The Local Democracy Research Centre has partnered with the University of Kent to develop a framework for measuring and comparing decentralisation within different states and territories. The constitutional order of a country is often of limited use in understanding how it is governed in practice. Power is dispersed according to a complex mix of legislation,…
Coverage and support for the May 2021 local elections in England and Wales and national elections in Scotland.
As part of our Post-Covid Councils work, we look at how re-building trust can lead us through the pandemic and beyond.
LGIU & CCLA's annual Cllr Achievement Awards.
This framework is intended to help local authorities ask a set of structured questions about how we emerge from the immediate crisis, placing planning processes within an overall context so we might begin to imagine the shape of local government post-Covid.
Our collected resources for councils about Covid-19.
