For decades 'prosperity' has been linked to the idea of wealth. Government policy has focused on economic growth, measured by rising GDP, as the way to improve living standards and opportunities. Yet rising inequalities, in-work poverty and job insecurity challenge the idea that economic growth should be the measure of a good life.

Our research is about working with residents and community groups in London to understand prosperity differently and to bring local priorities into policymaking. While our work focuses on the perspectives of people living and working in east London, our ambition is to develop new ways of thinking about how prosperity is defined and measured that can be shared across London and the UK more widely.

Read here about:

• How citizen-led research underpins the UK’s first long-term study tracking changes to household prosperity in east London between 2021 and 2031

• How our research in east London has developed

• What does prosperity mean? Stories from five neighbourhoods

• Why our work focuses on east London

• Find out how community-led research is changing policy