A strong and clear approach to community engagement was written into the HDRC’s delivery plan to ensure that residents and community organisations felt they were meaningfully involved in research rather that it being done ‘to them’.
In November 2024, the HDRC held a ‘takeover event’ to enable young people to feed directly into the setting of research priorities for Bradford Council. At the event, 40 young people from 8 youth voice groups attended and were asked to share their priorities.
Working with and for the communities and citizens of Bradford is a central objective of the HDRC. As part of this, they have co-funded a Youth Ambassadors programme, alongside the Policy and Safer Bradford Teams.