Work Strands

We employ an integrative framework to underpin and operationalise the Institute’s mission across the shared interests of our constituent centres and units, so as to explore challenges and issues of mutual concern and to avoid siloed approaches. ILAS has four work strands:

These strands work together capture the full nature of the Institute’s work and across these strands, and often utilising a broad life-course perspective, researchers, academics and professional staff investigate and support the experiences of individuals and groups in six strategic areas.

These work strands cross-cut each of the focus areas and are the Institute’s core mechanisms for generating positive impact. Central to ILAS’s approach is our commitment to push beyond state-of-the-art research, and to engage collaboratively with external stakeholders.

Advancing beyond state-of-the-art knowledge and collaborative co-production for public good are central to the ILAS approach. Thus, research and community engagement are the priority drivers of ILAS’s work programme and directly inform the other strands, ensuring evidence-based and life-course relevant practice, education and policy.