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24 January 2012
The Foundation is looking for a new Director to work with Trustees and senior management to set and implement the strategic direction for the Foundation; exploiting its independence to oversee the development of new and existing programmes, and to...
20 January 2012
The International Development Select Committee has concluded that DFID needs to work more effectively with private foundations in order to improve the impact of aid.
The Committee has published its report following an inquiry into the role...
19 January 2012
Sport has a unique ability to capture the imagination of young people and to stimulate their aspirations. Science and engineering has dramatically shaped the modern sporting world, sometimes causing controversy, but always generating fascination....
18 January 2012
Children with autism as young as 18 months could be helped to improve their socialising skills thanks to a new iPad app which was developed using research by Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellow Dr Sue Fletcher-Watson.
FindMe is a...
17 January 2012
Box Office Bioethics is a new film-making competition for students from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The competition is open to individuals or groups of students in the UK and Republic of Ireland, in three categories:
Year 11 and under...
20 December 2011
The Nuffield Foundation will be closed from 1pm on Friday 23 December until Tuesday 3 January 2012.
19 December 2011
The Nuffield Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Colette Bowe to its Board of Trustees.
Colette is an economist by profession and has extensive experience in both the public sector and the City. She is Chairman of...
19 December 2011
The winter edition of our newsletter is now available to download.
Issue 19 includes the latest from the IFS study on the impact of birth month on educational achievement and well-being; details of our report into foundation funding of...
16 December 2011
Nuffield Foundation Trustee Andrew Dilnot has been appointed chair of the UK Statistics Authority, the organisation responsible for the top level governance of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and for the independent scrutiny of all UK...
14 December 2011
The Mirrlees Review has been launched at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington.
The Review presents recommendations for tax reform by a group of the world’s leading public finance economists which, while shaped for the...
14 December 2011
Research funded by the Foundation has been influential in the Law Commission’s recommendations to change inheritance law to allow unmarried couples who have lived together for five years or more to inherit from each other without writing a...
12 December 2011
Support for independence in Scotland has recovered to levels not seen since the SNP first came to power in 2007, according to latest results from ScotCen Social Research’s Scottish Social Attitudes Survey (SSA).
However, while there is...
09 December 2011
UK foundations give an estimated £292 million to international development each year, equal to half the amount spent by DFID through international development NGOs.
The total spent by foundations on international development represents 9%...
29 November 2011
What do research biobanks, Twitter and the NHS have in common? All involve people who are showing solidarity with others. And thinking about how solidarity plays a role in our society can offer solutions to policy making, concludes a new report...
24 November 2011
The Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) Intervention Team has won a Guardian Public Services Award for Service Delivery for Children and Young people.
The multi-disciplinary team is provided by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation...
04 November 2011
Research findings about young peoples' transitions from school to work have been presented to the ACEVO Commission on Youth Unemployment, chaired by David Miliband MP.
Undertaken by the National Institute of Economic and Social...
03 November 2011
The final report of the Family Justice Review (FJR) has recommended the limited roll out of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC). In the section on "Alternatives to court proceedings", the report states:
"The Family Drug...
01 November 2011
Previous research published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has shown that children born at the start of the academic year achieve better exam results, on average, than children born at the end of the academic year.
In...
25 October 2011
In september 2011, we submitted evidence to the International Development Committee Inquiry on Private Foundations.
Following submission, Sarah Lock, Head of our Africa Programme, was invited to give evidence at the Committee's...
21 October 2011
The Nuffield Foundation is funding a major new programme of work to report on the impact of the recession, spending changes and the government’s social policy reforms on inequality and poverty in the UK.
The work will be carried out by a...
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