Our work
We’ve worked with impact-driven start-ups, and public sector organisations with a focus on inclusion, health, and wellbeing in the UK and globally.
Our work is user-centred, ensuring the participation of people with lived experience is central to research and design processes.
Developing participatory design processes for start ups in Macmillan Cancer's Impact Investment Portfolio
We are researching and developing participatory design processes that centre lived experience for start-ups funded through Macmillan's Impact Investment Fund. These will be embedded into Macmillan's ways of working, ensuring…
Co-designing, prototyping and launching a platform to democratise idea generation of biotech solutions with REACH
We are democratising idea generation and collaboration in biomedical engineering research. Bringing together a mix of people with lived experience, healthcare professionals, researchers, creatives, policy experts, and engineers, we are…
User research and co-designing training resources for fitness professionals
We did a user research and co-design process to develop a curriculum to train fitness professionals to be more inclusive and accessible in their delivery of services.
Soda's recommendations picked up in government policy for their Inclusion 2028 programme
Recommendations from our work on accessibility of sport, launched at the House of Lords, have been embedded in the government's Inclusion 2028 programme.
Training impact-driven businesses on inclusive, accessible and user-centred design
We facilitated training for ventures supporting disabled people, women, refugees, young and older people, participating in a Mayor of London innovation programme.
Co-designing patient feedback processes in hospitals
For Imperial College NHS, we facilitated a co-design process to improve user feedback mechanisms and learning from insights in the context of hospital wards.
Embedding accessibility for gut health monitoring app, ZOE
We worked with ZOE to audit the accessibility of their app, and embed global accessibility standards into their product development processes, supporting their expansion to global markets and a wider…
Co-designing an award-winning inclusive mental health campaign for communities in London
We worked with public health staff and people affected by mental health to develop an inclusive mental health campaign.
Co-designing and implementing NHS community health funds across an ICS in seven local authorities
For the NHS, we worked with seven Local Authorities and residents to co-design a new community health fund for underserved population groups.
Country-wide research to understand and improve the accessibility of sport and physical activity in the UK
Our latest research exploring the accessibility of sport in the UK was launched at the House of Lords in July 2024, supported by the UK government Minister of State.
Developing online training and resources for disability tech start-ups on inclusive design
We developed a learning programme for disability tech start-ups on inclusive and accessible design for Remarkable, a global accelerator with over 130 start-ups going through their programmes.
Soda's work featured as best practice in the UK government's Department of Health and Social Care policy
Soda's work to co-design health projects in the UK was featured in an adult social care policy paper as a case study for best practice to embed across health and…
Transforming NHS digital and in-person Long Term Condition Services
We worked with patients, clinical, and non-clinical teams to co-design accessible innovations to a primary care service.
Researching best practice for co-design and community inclusion in health contexts across the UK
We worked with Transformation Partners in Health and Care to deliver a best practice review of community engagement and co-design practices in the design of community health programmes across the…