John is a freelance writer, researcher and data scientist. Air-to-air heat pumps can provide homeowners with an additional option for decarbonising home heating. Air-to-air (A2A) heat pumps – often ...

Frances is Nesta’s mission manager for Scotland working on the healthy life mission and based with the Scotland team in Edinburgh. Frances joins Nesta from Paths for All, a Scottish charity focused on ...

Most people live in homes that burn gas or other fossil fuels to provide heat and hot water. To reach net zero emissions by 2050, we have to switch to greener heating. Heat pumps, which run on ...

Instead of placing big bets on assumptions about ideas when they are first proposed, policies need to be reviewed and improved throughout their development via a process of test and learn. This ...

www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-electricity-to-gas-price-ratio-explained-how-a-green-ratio-would-make-bills-cheaper-and-greener/ ...

What is experimentation in policy or practice? And why is an experiment worth investing in? What can an experiment tell you? And when or where might it fall short? Answers to these questions are often ...

www.nesta.org.uk/report/supporting-self-management-a-guide-to-enabling-behaviour-change-for-health-and-wellbeing-using-person-and-community-centred-approaches/ ...

Marcus is the policy manager in Nesta's sustainable future mission. Martina joins Nesta as an analyst for the sustainable future mission, focusing on the reduction of carbon emissions from households ...

Geoff Mulgan was Chief Executive of Nesta from 2011-2019. Here we attempt to open up part of the debate on data governance; suggesting how to address the twin goals of greater control for citizens, ...

Geoff Mulgan was Chief Executive of Nesta from 2011-2019.

Lucy is a senior analyst on the healthy life mission team. Principal Data Scientist, healthy life mission Elena is a principal data scientist for the healthy life mission. Many of us live in ...

Patricia Lucas is a social researcher with a particular interest in child health inequalities and evidence for policy. She divides her time between independent work, leading rapid soci… Rosa Robinson ...