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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Arthritis, work and wellbeing: a mixed methods study with policy recommendations

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Little boy at home looking pensive, playing a game on a smartphone
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Justice | 2023 – 2025

Linking household benefits, financial precarity and child welfare

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Man holds girl's hand as he walks her to primary school
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Justice | 2023 – 2025

Improving safeguarding outcomes after adoption or special guardianship

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Elderly woman and adult daughter out shopping
In progress

Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Connecting pensions, health and care

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A group of neighbours walking outside in a green space
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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Just neighbourhoods? Under-representation in UK community-led planning

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Teenage sixth form students walking into college
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Education | 2023 – 2025

Revisiting the raising of the participation age to 18 in England

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Mother and small child on a bus looking out of the window together and playing a game naming the things they see
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Justice | 2023 – 2026

Parental Advocacy in England: a realist evaluation of implementation

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Girl in school uniform checks her phone while walking to secondary school, carrying a backpack
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Education | 2023 – 2025

The impact of exclusion on peers’ education and labour market outcomes

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Portrait of a teenager in front of a blue shed, looking at the camera
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Justice | 2023 – 2025

Children in police custody: piloting a ‘Child First’ approach 

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Teenager hugging their mother
In progress

Welfare | 2023 – 2026

The long-term effects of being a young carer

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Grandmother with little children with pen and paper
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Education | 2023 – 2025

Improving early mathematical skills by supporting home learning

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Two little boys and a little girl, all wearing primary school uniform, work together to solve a puzzle in their classroom.
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Education | 2023 – 2025

What has ‘Free School Meals’ measured and what are the implications?

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Teenage sixth form students walking into college
New

Education | 2023 – 2025

Revisiting the raising of the participation age to 18 in England

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Portrait of a teenager in front of a blue shed, looking at the camera
New

Justice | 2023 – 2025

Children in police custody: piloting a ‘Child First’ approach 

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A group of neighbours walking outside in a green space
New

Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Just neighbourhoods? Under-representation in UK community-led planning

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Man holds girl's hand as he walks her to primary school
New

Justice | 2023 – 2025

Improving safeguarding outcomes after adoption or special guardianship

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Mother and small child on a bus looking out of the window together and playing a game naming the things they see
New

Justice | 2023 – 2026

Parental Advocacy in England: a realist evaluation of implementation

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Little boy at home looking pensive, playing a game on a smartphone
New

Justice | 2023 – 2025

Linking household benefits, financial precarity and child welfare

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Girl in school uniform checks her phone while walking to secondary school, carrying a backpack
New

Education | 2023 – 2025

The impact of exclusion on peers’ education and labour market outcomes

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Two little boys and a little girl, all wearing primary school uniform, work together to solve a puzzle in their classroom.
New

Education | 2023 – 2025

What has ‘Free School Meals’ measured and what are the implications?

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Grandmother with little children with pen and paper
New

Education | 2023 – 2025

Improving early mathematical skills by supporting home learning

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New

Justice | 2023 – 2025

Access to justice through artificial intelligence

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People looking at their mobile phones while waiting for job interview

Welfare | 2023 – 2024

Reliability and validity of crowdsourced workplace wellbeing data

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Teenager hugging their mother
In progress

Welfare | 2023 – 2026

The long-term effects of being a young carer

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Teenager hugging their mother
In progress

Welfare | 2023 – 2026

The long-term effects of being a young carer

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Elderly woman and adult daughter out shopping
In progress

Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Connecting pensions, health and care

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Father and daughter having fun at home
In progress

Education | 2023 – 2024

Optimisation and feasibility of Triple P parenting programme for remote delivery

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Early years professionals playing with children
In progress

Education | 2022 – 2024

Understanding the take-up of early education entitlements

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Primary school children using a microscope during a lesson outside at school
In progress

Education | 2023 – 2025

Purposeful and effective practical work in primary school science

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Male and female apprentices looking at car engine
In progress

Education | 2022 – 2024

Work or study? Gender and the transition from school to work

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Mother, father, son and daughter standing in front of their house
In progress

Welfare | 2023 – 2025

A regional regeneration index to track socioeconomic ‘Levelling Up’

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Two teenage male pupils study a science lesson as part of their post-16 options
In progress

Education | 2019 – 2024

Post-16 pathways: the role of peers, family background and expectations

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Man working on a laptop using sign language on a video call
In progress

Welfare | 2023 – 2024

Designing inclusive remote and hybrid working to support disabled workers

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Teacher helping primary school girl with schoolwork in the classroom
In progress

Education | 2023 – 2024

The impact of additional learning needs identification in Wales

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Teenage sixth form students taking notes in a lesson
In progress

Education | 2022 – 2024

Comparing inequality and outcomes across post-16 education in the UK

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Group of teenage boys at school in uniform
In progress

Justice | 2022 – 2025

Exploring racial disparity in diversion from the youth justice system

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Three colleagues smiling and talking at work
New

Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Arthritis, work and wellbeing: a mixed methods study with policy recommendations

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A man driving a van at work
New

Welfare | 2023 – 2025

The PAW Trial: feasibility and acceptability of the Pain-at-Work Toolkit

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Two older women swimming in their local pool
New

Welfare | 2023 – 2025

The psychological, social and economic impact of musculoskeletal conditions

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Older woman using a tablet to make a video call
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Welfare | 2023 – 2025

Remote osteoarthritis peer-mentorship for socioeconomically underserved people

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Teenager hugging their mother
New

Welfare | 2023 – 2025

Juvenile onset rheumatic diseases: education, vocational readiness, & employment

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Older woman at work using a laptop
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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Extending working lives for people with musculoskeletal conditions

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School children with their bicycles in the school yard. Happy as a girl and boy walk pushing them side by side.
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Education | Welfare | 2022 – 2024

Modifying school choice for more equitable outcomes in England

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Education | 2022 – 2023

The medium-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pupils with SEND

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Justice | 2019 – 2023

Born into care: best practice guidelines

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Reported

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
Reported

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
Reported

Justice | 2020 – 2021

Guidance to judges on the anonymisation of children judgements

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Lawyer taking witness statement from male witness
Reported

Justice | 2019 – 2021

The production of witness statements by lawyers and litigants in person

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Young boy draws and plays with a globe as part of nursery education
Reported

Education | 2020 – 2022

COVID-19 and childcare: local impacts across England

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Reported

Justice | 2020 – 2022

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

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Reported

Education | 2020 – 2022

Ethical principles underpinning co-production with young people

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Reported

Education | 2020 – 2021

COVID-19 mitigation measures: education provision and access to special schools

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Education | 2020 – 2022

Can maths apps add value to learning?

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Reported

Welfare | 2020 – 2021

How the COVID-19 crisis is affecting food security

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Male secondary school student working at home on laptop
Reported

Education | 2020 – 2021

The impact of COVID-19 on mainstream schools in England

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We offer our grant holders the freedom to frame questions and enable new thinking.

Our research must stand up to rigorous academic scrutiny, but we understand that to be successful in effecting change, it also needs to be relevant to people’s experience.

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We aim to improve people’s lives by funding research that informs social policy, primarily in Education, Welfare and Justice. We also fund student programmes that give young people skills and confidence in science and research.

We are an open, collaborative and engaged funder that offers more than money. Through connecting the individual projects we fund, we strengthen their collective impact and give voice to an overarching narrative.

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