INCLUSIVE AND COMMUNITY-CENTRED RESEARCH
We build the infrastructure for inclusive and community-centred research.
Elysium London is a research practice built between communities and institutions, shifting power to the communities research is meant to serve. 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: fifteen pages on the state of inclusive research in England, the models behind our work, and the infrastructure the system needs.
HOW WE WORK
Two ways to shift power.
We work inside institutions’ own research, opening it to the people it affects so they share real power over the questions, methods and decisions.
We support communities to build and lead research of their own, deciding what is studied and to what end, on the knowledge only they hold.
In both, communities are authors of the research, not a source of data for it. We answer to communities and institutions alike.
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 in community research across Lambeth and Southwark, from frontline fieldwork to directing a community research organisation. He carries what he first saw there, community power the system overlooks, into national work.
ORGANISATIONS WE WORK WITH
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.