Call Out for Evidence: Community Wellbeing Agency and Control through Place-based interventions

Together with What Works Centre for Wellbeing and funding partners, the National Lottery Community Fund and People’s Health Trust, New Local has launched a Call for Evidence to complement an extensive review of the published literature.

About the project

Through a rapid evidence review, we are exploring how, and the extent to which community wellbeing improves when communities exercise agency and control.

Our aim for this review is to:

• Identify if and how place-based interventions using collective action improve community wellbeing outcomes
• Outline the key findings on the effects of community control and agency at the community level
• Identify the common features of changes to collective agency and control at the community level

We want to hear from you

We’re seeking evidence related to community agency and control at the community level, where there are community wellbeing outcomes and interventions with a place-based component.

We’re interested in studies from across voluntary, public and private sectors.

Submitted studies must meet all of the following criteria:

• Report on a place-based intervention delivered to communities that impacts on one or more  community wellbeing outcomes
• Apply at community or neighbourhood level
• Be written in English language and include author details and date
• Focus on an intervention which took place from 1990 onwards

Studies reporting quantitative findings must:

• Measure changes in wellbeing as a comparator, using standardised measures. This could be by conducting a before-and-after intervention assessment, or through the use of a control group.

Studies reporting qualitative findings must:

• Report evidence of changes in wellbeing demonstrated by before-and-after intervention data collection or other designs. These could include baseline and/or self-reporting.

Studies reporting mixed-methods findings must:

• Address both the quantitative and qualitative reporting requirements.

How your submission will be used

We will include your submission as part of our rapid review of the evidence.

The content of your submission might be included in public outputs, such as: technical reports, articles prepared for peer reviewed journals, presentations or blogs which share what we have learnt from the project.

The deadline for submission is 21st March 2023.