Community Research Report Wisbech

The Institute for Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University (CISL) is carrying out research on how supermarkets can support community health and wellbeing. The CISL researchers were keen to understand what support really looked like on the ground, and what difference it made. It was really important to them that the voice and experience of community members was included in the research and so a team from the Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University supported a group of residents from a town in Cambridgeshire to do a community research project. To explore their research topic, Leeds Beckett researchers used a peer research approach. They trained community members to carry out a research project and the Community Researchers chose the topic of the research: experiences of living in the Cambridgeshire town. This report shares the findings from the research project.