Insights
We act based on what we know and we always learn from what we do. We also think that sharing and collaborating is the best way to move things forward. Take a look at our research and insights and get in touch if you want to talk to us about what we do.
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Broadening digital skills for future work
Good Things Foundation and Accenture partnered together to deliver the Future Proof: Skills for Work project, which sought to engage and support individuals with limited digital skills to prosper in the 21st-century workplace.
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Gaining and sustaining digital skills
Good Things Foundation Researcher, Joseph Chambers, discusses how the Future Proof: Skills for Work programme, which aims to equip learners with digital skills and supporting change to the underlying behaviours driving their learning.
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Connecting with digital report
Read the report on our Community Connector programme, which evaluated the capacity-building effect of investing in individuals to work with front line workers to support the progression of people with mental health issues, or who are experiencing homelessness.
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Why is co-design so important?
By definition, co-design is the approach of actively involving stakeholders in the design process. From end-users to partners, each opinion is invaluable in the creation of something new.
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Learn before you try: research-led fund design
Our Head of Research, Al Mathers, talks about the importance of practice research and why it forms a large part of our work.
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We need to get ready for a digital economy
Helen Milner OBE, Good Things Foundation CEO and Carol Lake, Head of International Philanthropy, J.P. Morgan explain why digital skills and access are essential to help us in a digital economy.
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Future Digital Inclusion: Delivering basic digital skills for those in need
This report aims to understand the mechanisms behind FDI: the resources that different types of Online Centre have at their disposal, and which are most important for different types of learner.
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Blended learning: what is it, and what are its advantages?
Our Curriculum Development Manager, Laura Faulkner, explains what blended learning is and its advantages.
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Voicebox Cafés: an evaluation
This evaluation report explores the work of our Voicebox Cafés project, aimed at providing a safe space for young women to participate in democracy and public life, using digital as an enabler.
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Motivational barriers of non-users of the internet
A report on the findings of Good Things Foundation, Professor Simeon Yates (University of Liverpool), and BT's partnership research into understanding motivational barriers of non-users of the internet.
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Deconstruct to reconstruct: building a research approach for growth
Our Head of Research, Al Mathers, looks at how agile working principles can be applied within research.
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Testing Digital Inclusion in Kenya
Read about our top findings from our year-long Digital Life: Kenya project, piloting the use of Learn My Way by the Kenya National Library Service.
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