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Education | 2024 – 2025

Long-term outcomes of high-achieving disadvantaged children

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Justice | 2024 – 2025

Breaking networks of youth serious violence

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Education | 2024 – 2026

Developing a classroom intervention to improve conversation skills

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Welfare | 2023 – 2025

Collective defined contribution pensions with investment choice

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Welfare | 2023 – 2025

Virtual parent support portals: a new research and practice agenda

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Justice | 2023 – 2025

Applicants’ experience of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)

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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Universal Credit, good work and progression

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Education | 2023 – 2025

Unequal access to higher learning: can the EPQ help with levelling up?

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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

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

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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
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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Connecting pensions, health and care

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A group of neighbours walking outside in a green space

Welfare | 2023 – 2026

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

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A middle-aged man sat at home is looking at this phone while sorting pension paperwork.
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Welfare | 2023 – 2025

Collective defined contribution pensions with investment choice

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Justice | 2024 – 2025

Breaking networks of youth serious violence

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Education | 2024 – 2025

Long-term outcomes of high-achieving disadvantaged children

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Education | 2023 – 2024

Artificial intelligence and education

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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Universal Credit, good work and progression

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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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Little girls in primary school uniform
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Education | 2024 – 2026

Developing a classroom intervention to improve conversation skills

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Man getting professional advice

Justice | 2023 – 2025

Applicants’ experience of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)

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Education | 2023

Investigating the origins of the ‘achievement gap’

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Sixth form student smiling in a classroom while a teacher helps a classmate in the row behind him

Education | 2023 – 2025

Unequal access to higher learning: can the EPQ help with levelling up?

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Teenage sixth form students walking into college

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

Justice | 2023 – 2025

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

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Education | 2023 – 2024

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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Teenager hugging their mother
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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

The long-term effects of being a young carer

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Elderly woman and adult daughter out shopping
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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Connecting pensions, health and care

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Father and daughter having fun at home
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Education | 2023 – 2024

Optimisation and feasibility of Triple P parenting programme for remote delivery

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Early years professionals playing with children
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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
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Education | 2023 – 2025

Purposeful and effective practical work in primary school science

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Male and female apprentices looking at car engine
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Education | 2023 – 2024

The impact of additional learning needs identification in Wales

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A middle-aged man sat at home is looking at this phone while sorting pension paperwork.
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Welfare | 2023 – 2025

Collective defined contribution pensions with investment choice

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Justice | 2024 – 2025

Breaking networks of youth serious violence

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Education | 2024 – 2025

Long-term outcomes of high-achieving disadvantaged children

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Welfare | 2023 – 2026

Universal Credit, good work and progression

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Three colleagues smiling and talking at work
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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Education | 2020 – 2022

Ethical principles underpinning co-production with young people

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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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Welfare | 2020 – 2021

How the COVID-19 crisis is affecting food security

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