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Jonathan Bone

Mission Manager, healthy life mission

Jonathan works within Nesta Cymru (Wales), focusing on working across public, private and non-profit sectors to deliver innovative solutions that tackle obesity and loneliness in Wales.

Jonathan previously worked in Nesta’s Research and Policy team exploring the role of digital technologies and data in tackling a broad range of societal issues, and how new ventures doing this can be supported to start and scale.

Before joining Nesta Jonathan completed a PhD in Behavioral Ecology at University College London, investigating the evolution of cooperation and punishment in humans.

Jonathan Bone

About Nesta

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A healthy life

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Why reducing obesity could help to tackle the UK’s productivity problem

The economic and productivity costs of obesity and excess weight in the UK

Exploring ways to ensure people can afford a healthy diet

A plan for a healthy life in Wales

The Minister’s menu: could the government subsidise healthy food through public restaurants?

Exploring healthier food advertising policies with local authorities

Nesta's response to Welsh Government consultation to make the food environment healthier

School Meals, Count Me In Month

Nesta responds to Senedd’s consultation on prevention of ill-health - obesity

A third of adults in Wales live with obesity, according to new analysis

Increasing uptake of free school meals in Wales: school meals, count me in month pilots

Building public support for healthy eating policies: four evidence-based tips

Testing new ideas to increase the uptake of free school meals in Wales

Uncovering data gaps around obesity, diets and the food environment in Wales

Obesity (not) in the ________ headlines

Identifying barriers to free school meal take-up in Wales

School meal system

Access to healthy food has never been more important

Reordering food options on delivery apps could help to reduce obesity

Free school meals for all

Reordering food options in takeaway apps

Food for Thought: improving the healthiness of school food in Wales

Reducing the calories in takeaway orders

How improving online food environments can support our health

Sleep: the new frontier of health inequality

Our failing food system: a recipe for change

Changing minds about changing behaviours: obesity in focus

Ready for change? How challenge prizes could help us eat better

Where next for peer-to-peer energy exchange?

Tokenisation for renewable energy microgeneration

Decentralised Futures

Introducing Decentralised Futures

Missing Numbers in Children's Services

Decentralised digital organisations and the key topics people are talking about

How to boost startup diversity in uncertain times

An update on the Decentralised Future prize

Crowdfunding in a crisis

Five ways the community can own the high street

The Decentralised Future Prize

A crowdfunding toolkit for community investment

New study assesses the impact of business accelerators and incubators

Powering local regeneration through crowdfunded investment

Launching the European Digital Social Innovation Index

Beyond the numbers: What the European DSI Index has taught us about DSI - and about indexes

The European Digital Social Innovation Index Construction Methodology

Putting your money where your community is

Taking Ownership: Community empowerment through crowdfunding investment

Five open innovation mechanisms for successful startup-corporate collaborations

Exploring how crowdfunding can enable new models of community investment, governance and ownership

Matched Crowdfunding six months on: The longer term impacts

A theoretical framework for the DSI index

Building ecosystems for digital social innovation: tell us what really matters

Assessing the impact of incubators and accelerators

Open Innovation in Europe: A Snapshot of the SEP Europe’s Corporate Startup Stars 2017

Unlocking growth for digital social innovation: What would an index look like?

Assessing the impact of accelerators: What can you learn from academia and think tanks?

What next for Nesta's research into business incubators and accelerators?

Open innovation in Europe - a snapshot of the SEP Europe’s Corporate Startup Stars 2017

UK crowdfunding platform trends

The current shape of crowdfunding platforms in the UK

The current shape of crowdfunding platforms in the UK

Lessons from four years of running the UK's first crowdfunding platform directory

The State of Small Business: Putting UK entrepreneurs on the map

Using matched crowdfunding to tap into more than money

Matching the crowd - Combining crowdfunding and institutional funding to get great ideas off the ground

Incubators and accelerators: An updated directory for the UK

Which corporates are the most startup-friendly? Nominations are now open!

A journey towards good collaboration: Learnings & successes of the Startup Europe Partnership

RSS Discovery

Synergy Dance: Getting Children and Teens Active

EDCI 2016: updating the European Digital City Index

A new directory of accelerators and incubators in the UK – make sure you're on the list