Session overview
The Research Forum brings DIN members together for three focused, 90-minute online sessions, each centred on a real challenge facing the housing sector. Sessions are interactive, grounded in lived experience, and designed to be immediately useful.

You’ll work with peers to explore how research, data and everyday insight can better inform decisions, shape services and support clearer, more purposeful action—without needing extra time, budget or complexity.

The emphasis throughout is on clarity, curiosity and practical tools you can use straight away.

More information to come!

About the speakers

Dr Rob Rowlands – Curator of Curiosity & DIN Researcher in Residence
Rob is DIN’s Researcher in Residence and a thinking leader who helps organisations turn evidence into actionable insight, equipping teams to make confident, practical decisions and deliver meaningful impact. With around three decades’ experience working in and around housing, he understands how research needs to fit the real world—messy, pressured and full of competing priorities. (www.robrowlands.co.uk)

Paul Taylor – Innovation Coach, Bromford Flagship
Paul is the Innovation Coach at Bromford Flagship, where he helps drive the strategy for one of the UK’s largest housing associations. A recognised pioneer in the sector, he’s best known for giving up a “proper job” in 2014 to launch the social housing sector’s first dedicated Innovation Lab—a move that fundamentally changed how housing providers approach problem-solving and service design.

Cost
Included as part of your DIN membership.