Government Social Research Profession

This report sets out the first phase evaluation of the Get Britain Working Trailblazer programme, which involved developing Theory of Change models and system maps to describe how Trailblazer areas intend to address the aims of the programme.

Findings from a mixed-methods study on the customer experience and impacts of extra Jobcentre Plus support for disabled people and those with health conditions.

This report summarises findings on public perceptions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The key aim of this research is to better understand how Move customers manage their Universal Credit (UC) claim and to gather insights into the customer experience of claiming UC compared to legacy benefits.

This report presents the emerging findings from the evaluation of the 15 WorkWell programme pilots, from October 2024 to March 2025

This strategy sets out the current high-level approach for evaluating and tracking the performance of the Health Transformation Programme.

This report summarises the key findings regarding Mandatory Reconsiderations (MR) from the PIP Digital Self-Serve (DSS) evaluation. The report includes the findings from qualitative research with Personal Independence Payment (PIP) customers to understand their expectations, perceptions and experiences of the MR stage of the PIP application process.

The scheme is an accelerated development programme that seeks that develop our future professional leaders in the Government Social Research Service.

The research explored how workers manage their health and wellbeing at work.

This report reviews evidence on how changes in family income affect children’s school readiness, health, and economic outcomes.

This research aimed to understand how families living in poverty manage essential costs (including utilities, housing, food, health and school related costs), and the support available to help them with financial challenges. It also looked at their financial resilience, and experiences of managing debt and savings.

This strategy document sets the direction Government Social Research will take up to and beyond 2029

The research provides feedback from DWP staff and claimants on the value of the Jobcentre Plus Midlife MOT and identifies suggestions for delivery improvements. 

This literature review reports on the available published evidence on menopause in the workplace with regard to individual experience, employer support, and the associated cost to the UK economy

Understanding the Move to Universal Credit customer journey for DWP legacy benefit customers and factors that influenced their decision to make a Universal Credit claim or not 

This research explores Child Maintenance Service (CMS) customer perceptions of their Direct Pay arrangements and views on potential reforms to the Direct Pay service.

This report summarises the impact and effectiveness of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) loans on recipients’ circumstances.

This report details the findings of an in-depth qualitative research study with Personal Independence Payment applicants to understand the additional support needs of customers.

This report details the findings of an evaluation of the 2022 fit note reforms.

This report presents an impact assessment and accompanying cost-benefit analysis of the Sector-based Work Academy Programme (SWAP), a long running programme which was expanded in 2020.

This report summarises evaluation findings from an evaluation of the 2022 to 2025 Reducing Parental Conflict programme (RPC) Local Grant, based on research conducted from March 2023 to August 2024.

This report provides results from an impact analysis of the European Social Fund 2014-2020 programme in England.

This test and learn exercise explored a new way of using data to identify people entitled to but not receiving Pension Credit.

This report presents findings from the evaluation of the Youth Offer of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on 16 to 24 year-old Universal Credit customers.

This research explores consumer engagement and ways to increase public engagement with private pensions in the UK.

This report presents an impact assessment and accompanying cost-benefit analysis of the Kickstart scheme, which ran from September 2020 to March 2022.

This analysis was carried out to understand problems ESA claimants face, which may help the provision of support to help with employment.

This report details the findings of research into the experiences of Personal Independence Payment applicants who received zero points at health assessment.

This report outlines the findings of the exploratory research on 6 co-located jobcentres across England and Wales.

Findings of qualitative research with parents claiming Universal Credit (UC) and working atypical hours.

Qualitative research to understand how claimants make decisions about taking the Universal Credit Advance Payment and how they use it.

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