More in Common

Who we are

More in Common leads and supports initiatives to build more united, inclusive and resilient societies. Our mission is to understand the forces driving us apart, find common ground and bring people together to tackle shared challenges.

With teams in the United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, we harness cutting-edge social science and public opinion research to help leading organisations, philanthropies, movements, and businesses lift up stories of a ‘bigger us’ and bring people together to tackle our shared challenges. We draw from ground-breaking research to test and find solutions, working with partners that have the capacity to make a real difference at scale. And we help build the larger field of efforts to strengthen democratic societies against the threats of polarisation and division.

Since the launch of our national study Britain’s Choice in October 2020, we have been building out our UK team, strategy, partnerships, and programmes. Our recent work in the UK includes working with the organisations across the climate sector to produce Britain Talks Climate - showing how to build and sustain a society-wide consensus - and Dousing the Flames, showing how leaders, institutions and organisations can better manage cultural change and division.

Examples of our partnerships include advising philanthropic actors on how to best support efforts to strengthen social cohesion; developing the communications strategy for new refugee sponsorship schemes being launched in the UK and several other countries; and training civil society actors on methods for communicating across ideological lines, in ways that reduce polarisation and foster a shared sense of identity.