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Education | 2025 – 2027

Improving wellbeing-focused online media literacy in schools

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Education | 2025 – 2027

Examining the challenges and benefits of childminding in England

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Welfare | 2025 – 2027

A Digital Lives’ Framework for Counsellors and Psychotherapists

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Welfare | 2025 – 2028

Full Fact: Evidence-based responses to harmful misinformation

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Female electrician arrives at job. She is wearing an orange hi-vis jacket and behind her is a van.
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Welfare | 2025 – 2026

Characterising the job ladder in England

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Welfare | 2025 – 2027

All women are born (un)equal: menopause, HRT and women’s well-being

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Justice | 2025 – 2027

Developing a mixed funding model for free legal advice

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Justice | 2025 – 2026

Understanding and developing user-focused tribunal hearings

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Education | 2025 – 2026

Pupil wellbeing and increased persistent absenteeism: An investigation

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Justice | 2025 – 2027

 ‘The forgotten 10%’: private family law cases involving non-parents

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Welfare | 2025 – 2026

Distributional impacts of net zero on electricity consumers

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Welfare | 2025 – 2026

How can low earners afford a commensurate retirement income?

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Education | 2025 – 2026

Pupil wellbeing and increased persistent absenteeism: An investigation

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Justice | 2025 – 2027

Developing a mixed funding model for free legal advice

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traditional detached house within residential estate in England UK, several houses in view have solar panels on the roof.
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Welfare | 2025 – 2026

Distributional impacts of net zero on electricity consumers

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Portrait of a senior woman at home checking a letter in the mail
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Welfare | 2025 – 2026

How can low earners afford a commensurate retirement income?

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Female electrician arrives at job. She is wearing an orange hi-vis jacket and behind her is a van.
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Welfare | 2025 – 2026

Characterising the job ladder in England

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Justice | 2024 – 2025

Developing a digital legal knowledge hub for social welfare law

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Education | 2023 – 2025

Interventions supporting early self-regulation: a systematic literature review

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Education | 2025

Implementing effective early education interventions at scale

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Education | 2025 – 2026

Youth transitions to good employment: East Birmingham & North Solihull

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A front view of a two teenage girls on the minibus on the way to go on a hiking field trip. They are looking at one of the girls mobile phones and smiling.

Welfare | 2025 – 2027

A Digital Lives’ Framework for Counsellors and Psychotherapists

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Close up of a Young woman going over her retirement savings at home while using her laptop
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Welfare | 2025 – 2026

Tackling the information gap in retirement saving decisions

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Two people have their arms on the table while they speak at a tribunal. Someone is blurred on the over side of the table.

Justice | 2025 – 2026

Understanding and developing user-focused tribunal hearings

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Young well dressed businesswoman working on a computer at the office
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Justice | 2024 – 2025

Developing a digital legal knowledge hub for social welfare law

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In progress

Education | 2023 – 2025

Interventions supporting early self-regulation: a systematic literature review

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Education | 2024 – 2026

Beyond teacher assessed grades: Post-16 education choices and COVID-19

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Education | 2024 – 2025

Educational dialogue for improving Foundation Year student outcomes

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Education | Justice | 2024 – 2027

Evaluating the Fundamental British Values initiative of the DfE

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Justice | 2024 – 2025

Immigration detention and the rule of law

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Education | Welfare | 2024 – 2026

Employer investment in upskilling and reskilling in a changing economy

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A boy, wearing his PE kit, leans against the lockers. He's on his own in a corridor at school and is looking at the camera.
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Education | 2024 – 2027

Out of sight: exclusions, alternative provision and later life outcomes 

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Commuters waiting to get on the tube. There are two men and two women. One woman is looking at her phone, looking concerned.
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Welfare | 2024 – 2025

Routes to safety: Enhancing referrals to make victims of domestic abuse safer, sooner 

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Nursery child playing with teacher in the classroom
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Education | 2024 – 2026

Achieving high-quality provision in the baby room of English nurseries

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In progress

Education | 2025 – 2026

Artificial intelligence and education

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A woman is sat on the edge of a bed staring at her phone while her daughter is in the background.
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Welfare | 2023 – 2025

Virtual parent support portals: a new research and practice agenda

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Education | 2025 – 2026

Pupil wellbeing and increased persistent absenteeism: An investigation

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Justice | 2025 – 2027

Developing a mixed funding model for free legal advice

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traditional detached house within residential estate in England UK, several houses in view have solar panels on the roof.
New

Welfare | 2025 – 2026

Distributional impacts of net zero on electricity consumers

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Portrait of a senior woman at home checking a letter in the mail
New

Welfare | 2025 – 2026

How can low earners afford a commensurate retirement income?

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Female electrician arrives at job. She is wearing an orange hi-vis jacket and behind her is a van.
New

Welfare | 2025 – 2026

Characterising the job ladder in England

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New

Education | 2025

Implementing effective early education interventions at scale

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Shop assistant in supermarket re-stocking fresh vegetables in shelves of produce section.
New

Education | 2025 – 2026

Youth transitions to good employment: East Birmingham & North Solihull

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Close up of a Young woman going over her retirement savings at home while using her laptop
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Welfare | 2025 – 2026

Tackling the information gap in retirement saving decisions

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Welfare | 2025 – 2027

All women are born (un)equal: menopause, HRT and women’s well-being

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baby eating fruit on highchair
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Welfare | 2025 – 2026

Impact of the cost of childcare on parental mobility

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SEND pupil drawing in classroom
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Education | 2025 – 2026

The uneven distribution of pupils with SEND in mainstream schools

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Pre-school students sitting in an art classroom being taught by a teacher. The classroom is colourful and the children are sat at a big table.
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Education | 2024 – 2025

A comparative analysis of EY workforce policy in the four UK nations

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Justice | 2019 – 2023

Born into care: best practice guidelines

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Reception class children using a parachute in a PE lesson
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Education | 2022 – 2023

A movement and story-telling intervention for reception children

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Education | Welfare | 2022 – 2024

Understanding school attendance, education and labour market outcomes

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Grandparents having fun outdoors with their granddaughter, who is eating an apple and laughing: Understanding family and community vulnerabilities in transition to net zero
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Welfare | 2021 – 2023

Understanding family and community vulnerabilities in transition to net zero

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Father and son using laptop at home
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Welfare | 2021 – 2025

Developing a minimum digital living standard for households with children

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Justice | 2021 – 2023

Delivering administrative justice after the pandemic

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Side view of two female high school students in classroom working on laptops social distancing. Student in foreground is in focus and student in background is blurred
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Education | 2021 – 2022

COVID-19 and disadvantage gaps in England 2020 and 2021

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Siblings play ball in a playground - Siblings Contact and the Law
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Justice | 2020 – 2021

Guidance to judges on the anonymisation of children judgements

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Lawyer taking witness statement from male witness
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Justice | 2019 – 2021

The production of witness statements by lawyers and litigants in person

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Close up of a young girl and her father wearing protective face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic outside.
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Welfare | 2021 – 2023

The Economy 2030 Inquiry: navigating a decade of change

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Young boy draws and plays with a globe as part of nursery education
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Education | 2020 – 2022

COVID-19 and childcare: local impacts across England

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Justice | 2020 – 2022

When is a wedding not a marriage? Exploring non-legally binding ceremonies

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