Essex Welfare Service has volunteers signed up to help vulnerable residents during the Covid 19 pandemic. We wanted to get an understand of how the easing of lockdown restrictions might impact people’s ability to continue volunteering and identify where we have areas of high risk. Using segmentation and clustering techniques we can predict that over a quarter of our volunteers are highly...
Each year, Essex County Council sets a research topic to some of the best social science undergraduates at the University of Essex. The Challenge Project acts as an alternative to their individual undergraduate dissertation module in their final year. As a group, the students work together to provide the council with evidence which is academically accredited and cutting edge. The report...
This research aimed to track resident attitudes and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic to: 1.Explore how different types of residents and households were impacted. 2.Understand what day to day life was like for different types of households. 3.Record how experiences and attitudes changed over the lockdown period and beyond. The insight was obtained through a series of video/telephone interviews (mostly via Teams) with...
This dashboard allows you to profile Essex communities to identify physical activity and inactivity levels, and to identify the extent of possible key drivers of activity levels down to an LSOA level. Together, this information provides a springboard for further research; actionable insight enabling ELDP and Active Essex to deploy targeted resources to communities most in need; and an evidence-base...
A conference was held for the 3 health and care systems linked to Essex to explore issues around Population Health & Wellbeing. The presentations covered topics cutting across health inequalities, deprivation, mental health, social isolation / loneliness and physical activity.
