INCLUSIVE AND COMMUNITY-CENTRED RESEARCH
We build the infrastructure for inclusive research.
Elysium London is a research practice built between communities and institutions. We work with NHS trusts, universities, ICSs, funders and community organisations to build the standards, skills and relationships that hold when the funding ends.
OUR INTRODUCTION
The commitment to share power is everywhere. The infrastructure to hold it is not yet built.
Our introduction sets out why the gap persists, and what we are building: fourteen pages on the state of inclusive research in England, the models behind our work, and the infrastructure the system needs.
WHERE TO START
Three ways in.
Research teams and institutions
You have live research, a team or a portfolio, and the way communities shape it has to hold up: in delivery, to funders, over time.
Funders and system partners
You fund or govern research, and want the commitments in your strategies to outlast the grants that carry them.
Communities and VCSE organisations
You hold knowledge institutions need, and research should happen on your terms. Community researcher training, research you help lead, partnership.
Most partners start at project level. Everything we build there is designed to climb.
20+
Research and evaluation projects delivered across NHS, ICSs, universities, and national funders
190+
Practitioners trained in inclusive and community research methodology
4
Practitioner frameworks developed from direct delivery experience
2
Published white papers on inclusive research practice and infrastructure
REFLECTIONS
What the people we work with say.
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“After just one session, you’ve transformed our partnership strategy.”
Programme Director
UK Trade Body
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“Elysium London provides a thoughtful and practical input to enhancing participation in research. Muhammed is flexible and enthusiastic, and provides detailed advice.”
Laura A
Research Associate, King’s College London
Reflections are published with consent. More are being collected as current projects complete.
FOUNDER-LED
“As a Pakistani Muslim, I learned early that the system was not built for people like me.”
Practitioner-led, from Lambeth to national programmes.
Muhammed Rauf founded Elysium London after five years leading community research in Lambeth and Southwark, from frontline fieldwork to programme direction. The practice carries that experience into national work.
ORGANISATIONS WE WORK WITH
King's College London
King's Health Partners
British Science Association
Ideas Fund
Society of Radiographers
PUBLISHED RESEARCH
Practice grounded in our own published research.
Elysium London’s practice is grounded in two published white papers and four practitioner frameworks developed from direct delivery experience. Strategic Frameworks for Inclusive Research (2025) established the conceptual models that underpin all of our work. The Inclusive Research Collaborative (2026) advances a structural diagnosis of why inclusive research remains fragile across the UK research ecosystem, and proposes a forward trajectory for dedicated infrastructure. A third paper on Inclusive Research Standards with implementation guidance is currently in development.
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OUR VISION
Health equity, built into the nation’s infrastructure.
Will you build it with us?
Wherever you are starting from, a live study, a team, a whole system, or a community with questions of its own, it starts with a conversation.