We are an action research lab advancing equity in health and social systems — working alongside communities to generate evidence, shift systems, and build more just futures.
We are an action research lab advancing equity in health and social systems — working alongside communities to generate evidence, shift systems, and build more just futures.
We leverage evidence, relationships, and lived expertise to spark more equitable futures — grounded in equity science.
Meet the Team →Equity science treats fairness not as just a theory, but as something imagined, aspired to, and lived. Our work engages equity across three dimensions:
What is fair in society, who is worthy of care, what counts as ‘good’ policy, and which attitudes and actions we tolerate.
The futures we want to create together, whose voices shape the pathways to get there, and how we know we’re moving in a good direction.
How equity lives in micro-interactions, and how social conditions accumulate in bodies and communities over lifetimes.
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The Equity Science Lab generates evidence, builds evaluation infrastructure, and mobilises communities — always in service of systems that work for everyone. Our approach is shaped by four equity practices.
Our work begins with positionality — naming the worldviews, institutions, and power that shape whose questions get asked and whose knowledge counts.
Meet the team → Equity Science Lab · 2025We build the infrastructure — frameworks, tools, training — so communities can own and act on their own evidence.
Our resources → Equity Science Lab · 2025Community isn’t just the site of our work — it’s the mechanism for lasting, measurable change.
See our work → Equity Science Lab · 2025Findings don’t live in reports. We translate evidence into policy, programme design, and advocacy — pathways from what we know to what we do.
See projects → Equity Science Lab · 2025Our methodology begins and ends with communities. We don't parachute in — we build lasting partnerships that generate rigorous evidence and durable change.
See Our Publications →We work with communities to surface the questions that matter most — ensuring research priorities reflect lived experience, not just institutional agendas.
Data collection is designed to minimise burden on participants, maximise representation, and incorporate community voice at every analytical stage.
Findings are packaged for multiple audiences — from policy briefs to community workshops — so insights move from report to real-world change.
Our communities of practice are living networks — spaces where researchers, practitioners, and community members build shared knowledge, challenge assumptions, and move evidence into action.
Explore CommunitiesWe collaborate with researchers, community organisations, and institutions ready to do the work differently.