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Cover of the Structurally Unsound report for UCL and Resolution Foundation, featuring a plaster across cracked concrete. Structurally Unsound poster reading “Change society by changing who designs it”, above a plaster bridging cracked concrete. Five Structurally Unsound cover design variations showing different colours for the plaster and title underlining. Structurally Unsound poster calling for action on inequalities, with the report cover and UCL and Resolution Foundation logos. Charlene White’s foreword in Structurally Unsound, showing the report’s typography and page layout. Illustrated report structure linking education, employment, health and housing with the themes of Structurally Unsound. Language chapter opening in Structurally Unsound, combining a personal account with Sandra Howgate’s illustration. Place chapter opening in Structurally Unsound, with a personal account of inequality and Sandra Howgate’s illustration.

Structurally Unsound — UCL & Resolution Foundation

Editorial direction and report design for research into structural inequalities in the UK.

Urban Good worked closely with Dr Olivia Stevenson of UCL Public Policy and Siobhan Morris of UCL Grand Challenges, our clients at UCL, on the editorial direction, graphic design and layout of Structurally Unsound.

Published in October 2019, the report brings together research and policy perspectives on how inequalities overlap and shape people’s lives. It was produced through a partnership between UCL’s Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality, UCL Public Policy and the Resolution Foundation.

Urban Good’s contribution

Urban Good provided editorial steer, graphic design and document layout for the 2019 report. Charlie Peel led Urban Good’s contribution, supported by Benedict Richards of Graphicay.

The brief brought together two things we care about: making complex information easier to navigate, and using design to support work with a social purpose.

Illustrations by Sandra Howgate.

A continuing document

In 2025, the UCL team behind Structurally Unsound received the Professional Services Support for Knowledge Exchange award at UCL’s Creating Impact through Knowledge Exchange Awards. The recognition celebrated the wider partnership’s sustained work connecting research and policy, including activities and publications in 2024 that revisited the original commission.

Read UCL’s account of the award.

Read more and watch the discussion

The 2019 report is available as a free PDF through UCL Discovery. You can also explore UCL’s Structurally Unsound project page or watch the Resolution Foundation and UCL discussion from 8 October 2024, which revisited structural inequalities five years on.

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