Building Future Communities Research Centre

Highlights

Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (FPLD), one of the leading UK organisations on learning disabilities, has joined LSBU. Find out more here.

LSBU has been ranked third in the world for reducing inequalities in the Times Higher Impact Rankings 2024. As a contributing factor, the Building Future Communities (BFC) Research Centre is a creative umbrella designed to add value to various inclusive participatory research projects prioritizing this agenda through stakeholder engagement and collaboration.

Our ethos is inclusive, and we work collectively focusing an intersectional lens on social justice concerns and research for transformation and real-world impact. We engage with funded research, enterprise activity, consultancy and researcher development with organisations including charities, organisations, community groups and local authorities.

Based on the principle ‘nothing about us without us,’ BFC builds on the creative participatory work of the former Social Justice and Global Responsibility Research Centre.

We're committed to researcher development and in particular to encouraging researchers who do not have easy access to research support including for example young, disabled, minoritised, digitally/linguistically excluded people, and colleagues who work in further education or professional services roles.

Areas of interest include:

• Critical Autism and Disabilities Studies research forum in LSBU School of Law and Social Sciences
• The Re-imagining Learning Communities research group in LSBU School of Law and Social Sciences
• Peoples Academy in LSBU Institute of Health and Social Care