By David Best & Julie Atkinson The Inclusive Recovery Cities movement has its origins in a research paper in 2018 based on events in Gothenburg, Sweden and Ghent, Belgium (written by David Best and Charlotte Colman) but, for the UK at least, the current wave of commitment and engagement really dates from the UK launch in Middlesbrough in 2023. In the two years since, we have seen an explosion of interest from the US to Africa to New Zealand. Yet, the idea is remarkably simple

By David Best, Vicky Hartley, Shelley Duffy There are currently ten established Inclusive Recovery Cities in England, a number that has grown since the wonderful launch event for Middlesbrough’s IRC at the Riverside Stadium in May of 2023. Middlesbrough, through its ‘Building Recovery In Middlesbrough’ (BRIM) programme has led the way in innovating around recovery and Recovery Connections; the flagship LERO in the North-East of England, is now looking to replicate that succes

By Professor David Best As an academic transitioning to a new world of consultancy, I was not sure how much public speaking would be...