Our Living Encyclopedia is part of our work in creating Living Knowledges. Here you will find community led and scientifically rooted reportings that are in constant progression as injustice is an evolving phenomena. 

Living Knowledges is a realm where knowledge finds a sanctuary to flourish, evolve, and expand beyond the confines of conventional repositories. It is a dynamic space dedicated to storing and nurturing knowledge in a manner that allows it to adapt, transform, and grow with the passage of time.

This is a digital ecosystem designed to accommodate the vast array of information amassed by humanity. It goes beyond the static nature of traditional libraries and archives, embracing the concept of living ideas that continuously evolve. Thus, knowledge is envisioned as a living entity that undergoes perpetual enhancement and refinement. Every piece of information is treated as a seed, capable of germinating, branching out, and cross-pollinating with other ideas.

How the Living Encyclopedia works

The Living Encyclopedia is colour coded to help guide people to the right type of content. Here’s a quick guide to what each category means.

ARTICLE

a short form essay-like piece of work

DATA-STUDY

a data led exploration into a topic

DECLARATION

a declaration made by a group of People

DEFINITION

short form copy detailing a specific phenomema

IMAGINATION LAB

a special event to ideate on a specific topic

PAMPHLET

a shareable output from research

AUDIO REPORT

a spoken word conversation and reporting

REPORT

a long form piece of work

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A Declaration for Health

During the summer of 2024, psychologists, doctors, medical students, and other healthcare professionals from racialised experiences gathered to co-create methods for weaving justice into their practices. This is their Declaration and proposition for a world that rooted in healing rather than harm.

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Mapping & navigating British systems of power

This working board is for people who are not “professionals” within the legal, policy, or advocacy space (NGOs) but for community-led organisers looking to develop action plans and theory of change models. The MIRO board has a series of instructions after an introduction section that you can refer to at different times.

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The Peoples’ Obesity Justice Pamphlet

As a first step towards obesity health justice, we have created The People’s Obesity Pamphlet, a resource for the people, by the people. This is a tool for harm reduction and the promotion of autonomy for people who are experiencing obesity.

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A Declaration for Air

On 11th October 2023, 14 people, ranging from the fields of medicine, policy, law, abolition, science, data science, economics, and art gathered to declare our right to access AIR.

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Using Data for Health Justice

The mission of this report is to reframe the culture around data to ensure that we understand its limitations, reframe from supremacy to a tool for justice, and introduce a more accurate lexicon so we can better our collective understanding of data.

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Community Sovereignty

Community Sovereignty is an umbrella term that brings together methods of practice for organisations and scientific researchers to establish equitable engagement with communities.

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Data Culture Framework for Health Justice

Data does not operate in a vacuum as every part of the process is coloured by top down factors such as culture. Which data is collected, how it is analysed and the insights drawn from data are all decision points practitioners have to make and all practitioners belong to a specific culture which influences them.

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Equitable Working with Community Expertise

In this report, we look at equitable engagement with community expertise and why it is essential to move towards equitable health solutions. We will define ‘equitable engagement’; reframe the relationship between community and science; and provide a ‘How To’ manual.

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Air Pollution

Air pollution presents a particularly insidious hazard given that the disease affects respiratory and cardio-vascular systems (source). These two systems are sensitive to air pollution as air pollution directly damages the mechanics and as a consequence the function of lungs, heart, and the circulatory system.

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Creating Health Infrastructure

This report proposes that our current framing and language of what regeneration means needs to evolve from one that is capital driven and spatially focused, to one that is health driven actively targeting the environmental, social, and governance barriers to health.

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Obesity, Classism and Racism

The latest health campaign adverts from the NHS look perfectly helpful at first glance. They depict an overweight Black woman eating a salad to promote healthier eating habits, especially in the wake of COVID. However, when we look deeper there are three things wrong with this and more insidiously these three factors point to the prevalence of structural racism within the health system.

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