Title

Sponsor

Project Leader

Review and evaluation of BIG funding for older people

‘Food Loop’: Testing innovative approaches for achieving pro-environmental behaviours

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Kate McGeevor

‘Macro’ evaluation of the New Deal for Young People

Employment Service

Michael White

A Methodology for Measuring Sectoral Sustainable Development (MSECSD) and its application to the UK oil and gas sector

EPSRC (Sustainable Technologies Initiative/LINK Programme)

A Quarter Century of Change at the Workplace

A Synthesis Review of the Public Understanding Research Projects

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Simon Dresner

A Systematic Approach to Estimation of Life Cycle Carbon Inventory, Carbon Footprints and Embodied Carbon (Carbon Vision)

EPSRC and the Carbon Trust

Affordability Targets: Implications for Housing Supply

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Diana Kasparova

An Ageing Workforce: The Employer's Perspective

Nuffield

Deborah Smeaton

Analysing Transition planning and Systemic Energy Planning Tools for the implementation of the Energy Technology Information System (ATEsT)

European Commission

Nazmiye Ozkan

Analysis of the Acas Model Workplace

Appraisal of Sustainable Rural Policy and Land Use (SURPLUS): Scoping Study

Defra Horizon Scanning Programme and the Treasury's Evidence-Based Policy Fund

Approaches to estimating DLA/AA take up rates: a feasibility study

DWP

Diana Kasparova

Barriers to childcare

Department for Education and Employment

Michael White

Basic Skills Sanctions Pilot

Department for Work and Pensions

Basic Skills Training in Adulthood

DfEE

Benchmarking the New Deal for Young People

National Audit Office

Michael White

Better off Working?: Work, poverty and benefit cycling

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Kathryn Ray

BIG Small Grants Evaluation: Study Description

Big Lottery Fund

Deborah Smeaton

Bridging Research and Policy Through Outcome Evaluation

Defra

Ben Shaw

BTW 50+

Department for Work & Pensions

Sandra Vegeris

Building Economic and Social Information for Examining the Effects of Climate Change (BESEECH)

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Buying into Unions

Trades Union Congress

Carbon budget watching

Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation

Mayer Hillman

Carbon Calculations over the Life Cycle of Industrial Activities (CCaLC)

Nazmiye Ozkan

Changing employment relationships, employment contracts and the future of work

Economic and Social Research Council

Michael White

Changing Work - The Impact of Reorganisation and Reallocation on Establishment Performance and Worker Well-Being

Norwegian Research Council

Clusters of Workless Couples and their Employment Transitions

DWP

Diana Kasparova

Cohesion in Bradford: disadvantage, solidarity and recession

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Maria Hudson

Comparison of employment of lone mothers in Britain and Denmark

Department of Social Security

Michael White

Competitiveness Effects of Environmental Tax Reforms (COMETR)

European Commission FP6

Computershare

Computershare; Rutgers

Concerted Action on Trade and Environment

European Commission DG Research

Continuity of Older Citizen’s Involvement in the Whole Policy Process: A Review of Practices

Better Government for Older People

Sandra Vegeris

Decarbonising Modern Societies Integrated Scenarios Process and Workshops

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

DEFRA Resource Flow Evidence Base

DEFRA

Deliberative Mapping

SPRU (Wellcome Trust)

Designing Environmental Policy to be Innovation Friendly

DG Environment, European Commission

Ben Shaw

Developing and delivering Green Fiscal Reform

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Ashden Trust

Ben Shaw

Developing New Methodologies to Assess the Sustainability Impacts of Trade Policies [SIAMethod]

Commission of the European Communities - Research Directorate-General

Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance: impact study

Deborah Smeaton

Discrimination in Europe

INRA

Do Days of the Week Matter?

Royal Society of Arts

Does Fair Share Capitalism Improve Firm Performance?

Department of Trade and Industry

DTI/PSI Workshop on linked employer/employee data

DTI

Early Identification

Department for Work and Pensions

Eco-efficiency of consumption and production patterns in Asia and the Pacific

UNESCAP

Economic Dimensions of Material Flows of Iron, Steel and Aluminium in the UK

Biffaward (with contributions from Corus and European Aluminium Association)

Employers' workplace policies in an environment of change

ESRC

Michael White

Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Scheme

Genevieve Knight

Employment transitions among those eligible for New Deal for Partners

DWP

Employment transitions of older workers

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Engaging with older citizens: A study of London boroughs

London Councils

Sandra Vegeris

England and Wales Student Income and Expenditure Survey

Department for Education and Skills

Environment & Human Behaviour New Opportunities Programme

ESRC

Estimating DLA/AA take-up rates: a feasibility study - Stage 2

Department for Work and Pensions

Diana Kasparova

ETech+: Technology policy and technical change, a dynamic global and UK approach

Tyndall Centre

Ethnic parity in Jobcentre Plus programmes

Department for Work and Pensions

Ethnic parity in Jobcentre Plus programmes

Department for Work and Pensions

Ethnicity and employment in the private sector

Maria Hudson

Evaluating In-Work Credit, Work Search Premium, extended schools childcare and New Deal Plus for lone parents

Department for Work and Pensions

Genevieve Knight

Evaluating Tax Credits

Inland Revenue

Evaluation of Adult Basic Skills Extensions

DfES

Michael White

Evaluation of Employment Zones Evaluation

Evaluation of Extended Schools Childcare and Childcare Taster Pilots

Department for Education and Skills

Genevieve Knight

Evaluation of Financial Instruments in Support of the European Social Dialogue

European Commission

Evaluation of Incapacity Benefit Reform Pilots (IB Pilots)

Evaluation of Joint Claims for JSA extension

Employment Service

Evaluation of Joint Claims for the JSA

Employment Service

Evaluation of Lone Parents Work Focused Interviews extensions

Employment Service

Evaluation of mandatory Intensive Activity Period for those aged 50+

Evaluation of Private Sector Led Pathways to Work Incapacity Benefit Reform

Department for Work and Pensions

Genevieve Knight

Evaluation of the Contribution of the Structural Funds to Sustainable Development

GHK International (European Commission)

Evaluation of the London Student Pledge

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Evaluation of the New Deal for Long-term Unemployed

Employment Service

Evaluation of the New Deal in Scotland Phase 1

Scottish Office

Jane Lakey

Evaluation of the New Deal in Scotland Phase 2

Scottish Office

Jane Lakey

Evaluation of Work-Based Learning for Adults

Department for Work and Pensions

Evaluation of Work-Focused Interviews for Partners and the revamped New Deal for Partners

DWP

Examination of workless couples and their transitions between employment states

Employment Service

Expert advice on an RCT design for 2010 Drug Pilot

Department for Work and Pensions

Stephen Morris

Ex-post estimates of costs to business of EU environmental policies

EU DG-Environment

Factors Affecting the Growth and Survival of British Workplaces in the 1990s

ESRC

Farmers, Farm Workers and Work-Related Stress

Feasibility of estimating DLA/AA take-up rates

Department for Work and Pensions

Diana Kasparova

Food Issues Survey

Stephen Morris

Fuel poverty and climate change

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Simon Dresner

Green Fiscal Commission

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (main funder)
The Ashden Trust (additional work)

Health and youth unemployment

Department of Health

Jane Lakey

Household and Economy Wide Impacts of Changing Environmental Behaviours

Defra

Robin Vanner

Impact of careers guidance on adult employed people

Department for Education and Employment

Michael White

Impact of Performance Related Pay

In Work Training Grant - qualitative research with lone parents

Employment Service

Independent Living in Later Life

Department for Work and Pensions

Independent Mobility as a Critical Aspect of Children’s Development and Quality Of Life

Department for Education; Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Rees Jeffreys Road Fund

Ben Shaw

Indicator-based Evaluation of Interlinkages between Different Sustainable Development Objectives (INDI-LINK)

European Commission - DG Research

Simon Dresner

Information and Consultation - Determinants and Outcomes

Department of Trade and Industry

Innovation and the costs of EuP policy

Defra

Roger Salmons

INsurance, TEchnological Risk and Emerging Science and Technology policies INTEREST)

EU

Jim Skea

Jobseeker Regime and Flexible New Deal (JRFND) Evaluation

Department for Work and Pensions

Genevieve Knight

Joint Claims For JSA Age Range Extension

Keeping the Social in the Sustainable

JRF

Labour market experience of people with multiple disadvantage

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Jane Lakey

Links between the social and environmental pillars of sustainable development (SD Pillars)

European Commission : DG Employment

Maintenance, Validation and Development of DCLG's Affordability Model

Diana Kasparova

Manpower Human Resources Laboratory

Manpower

Mapping the private sector terrain in relation to race

Commission for Racial Equality (CRE)

Maria Hudson

MARKAL-Macro Modelling of Deep Cuts In UK CO2 Emissions

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Mass Balance UK

Biffaward/Forum for the Future

Measuring ECO-innovation: ecological and economic performance and DeRIVEd indicators (ECODRIVE).

European Commission FP6

Ben Shaw

Measuring Progress in Encouraging the Sustainable Use of Resources and Strengthening the Synergies between Environmental Protection and Growth

European Commission DG Environment

Methods and tools for evaluating the impact of cohesion policies on sustainable regional development (SRDTOOLS)

GHK International (European Commission)

Minority Ethnic Outreach Evaluation

DWP

Minority Ethnic Students in Architecture

CABE

National Research Activities and Sustainable Development

PREST/EU

Jim Skea

Network on Ethnicity and Women Scientists (NEWS)

European Commission

Maria Hudson

New Deal for Long-term Unemployed Random Assignment Pilots Evaluation

Employment Service

New Deal for Young People

Employment Service

New Deal Pilots: A Qualitative Evaluation of Quarterly Work Focussed Interviews, Work Search Premium and In Work Credit

Sandra Vegeris

Older People Inside and Outside the Labour Market: A Review

Equality and Human Rights Commission

Deborah Smeaton

Older Workers :Expectations, Preferences and Barriers

Equality and Human Rights Commission

Deborah Smeaton

Organising, Representing & Supporting Migrant Workers

Trades Union Congress

Maria Hudson

Paid officials and community engagement in governance

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Kathryn Ray

Pathways to work: evaluation of the IB reform pilots

DWP

People with mental health conditions and pathways to work

DWP

Maria Hudson

Performance of NDYP in Rural Areas in England

Countryside Agency

Pre tendering design advice for the Gregg Pathfinders

Department for Work and Pensions

Stephen Morris

Project Pension Provision 2000

Prospects and Policies for Step Changes in the Energy System

ESRC

Provider-Led Pathways - Early Implementation Study

Department of Work and Pensions

Maria Hudson

Provision of an Evaluation Advisory Study

Food Standards Agency

Stephen Morris

Public attitudes to low-impact diets

Nuffield Foundation

Kate McGeevor

Public perceptions of short term actions government should take to mitigate climate change

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Ben Shaw

Public-Private Employment Transfers

Office of Government Commerce

Qualitative Evaluation of the In Work Retention Pilot

Department for Work and Pensions

Kathryn Ray

Qualitative Research on Unrepresented employers and claimants views of the Acas Individual Conciliation service in Race Discrimination claims

ACAS

Maria Hudson

Qualitative study exploring the influence of outcome based contracting in the Provider-Led Pathways to Work

Department for Work and Pensions

Maria Hudson

Qualitative study of Provider-Led Pathways to Work in phase 2 areas

Department for Work and Pensions

Maria Hudson

Rapid Review of the Evidence on Forests and Climate Change

Forestry Commission

Simon Dresner

Real world consumer behaviour relating to the purchase of environmentally preferable goods

European Commission

Kate McGeevor

Refugees

Goldsmiths College/DfEE

Regulatory Relief and Certified Environmental Management Systems

Environment Agency

Jim Skea

Resource productivity, ETR and sustainable growth in Europe (PETRE)

Anglo-German Foundation

Review of the DWP Cost Benefit Framework and how it has been applied

Department for Work and Pensions

Genevieve Knight

REWARD (Regional and Welsh Appraisal of Resource Productivity and Development)

Cambridge Econometrics/Environment Agency

Scoping Study on Attitudes and Behaviours Towards Food

Food Standards Agency

Stephen Morris

Scottish Student Income and Expenditure Survey

Scottish Executive

Secondary Analyses of NDLP and LPWFI data

Department for Work and Pensions

Genevieve Knight

Secondary analysis of the Jobseeker`s Allowance Client Survey and Leaving Incapacity Benefit Survey

Sectoral Costs of Environmental Policy (SCEP)

Ben Shaw

Single Parents’ Work Aspirations

Big Lottery

Kathryn Ray

SKEP Call 2 - Science to Policy Process

The Environment Agency/The SKEP-ERA Network

Ben Shaw

Social Research Review to Inform Natural Environment Policy

Defra

Robin Vanner

Solar Millennium Project

Forum for the Future (funded by BP Solar UK, the Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA), Eastern Group plc, the Energy Savings Trust, Greenpeace, Johnson Matthey, the Ashden Charitable Trust and the Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation)

South Asian women and employment

Nuffield

State-of-the-art modelling of hydrogen infrastructure development for the UK

Department for Transport

Nazmiye Ozkan

Strategic Review of Sustainable Development in Higher Education

Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

Malcolm Rigg

Study of Racism in the Architectural Profession

CABE

Study on Tax Reform in Europe over the next decades

European Environment Agency

Roger Salmons

Sustainable Development Knowledge Cluster (HEROBAC)

HEFCE

Jim Skea

Sustainable development R&D review

Environment Agency

Jim Skea

Sustainable Development Research Network

DEFRA/Sustainable Development Unit

Jim Skea

Sustainable Development Research Network (phase III)

Defra

Ben Shaw

Sustainable Development Research Network Phase II

Defra

Kate McGeevor

The Benefits of Energy Efficiency

Eaga/Forum for the Future

The effects of labour market re-regulation on employees

Department of Trade and Industry

The EHRC Triennial Review

EHRC

Deborah Smeaton

The Families and Children Study (FACS)

Department for Work and Pensions (formerly Department for Social Security)

Alan Marsh

The Future of Trade Unions in Modern Britain

Leverhulme Foundation

The Future of Work: the employer perspective

Equal Opportunities Commission

Deborah Smeaton

The impact of collective bargaining structures on workplace performance

Department of Trade and Industry

The impact of trade unions on workplace governance

Economic and Social Research Council

The New Sociology of Work?

The Programme of Research on Low-income Families (PRILIF)

Alan Marsh

The sexual health needs of unaccompanied minors in Enfield and Haringey

Enfield and Haringey Teenage Pregnancy Partnership

The Social Impacts of Environmental Taxes

JRF

The understanding of tax credit responsibilities amongst migrant workers

HM Revenue & Customs

Maria Hudson

The Union Wage Premium in Britain and the United States

ESRC grant ref: r000223958

The Use of Propensity Score Matching in Evaluation

DWP (through NCSR)

Transitions after Fifty

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Transitions to and from inactivity among those aged 50+

UK Energy System Scenarios and Sensitivities using the UK MARKAL-Macro Model

Department of Business, Energy and Regulatory Reform (DBERR)

UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (UKSHEC)

EPSRC(Supergen)

Jim Skea

UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium 2 CORE

Nazmiye Ozkan

Understanding Social Cohesion

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Maria Hudson

Understanding the housing and economic circumstances of The Riverside Group tenants

Francesca Francavilla

United Kingdom Energy Research Centre (UKERC)

NERC, EPSRC, ESRC

Jim Skea

Walking and cycling in transport plans

DETR

Mayer Hillman

WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service

Economic and Social Research Council

WERS 2004 Small Firms Report

Small Business Service / Department of Trade and Industry / Acas

Women and unpaid family care work in the EU

European Parliament

Francesca Francavilla

Working After State Pension Age

DWP

Working for Families Evaluation

New Zealand Ministry of Social Development

Genevieve Knight

Working with Men Evaluation

John Lyon`s Charity and City Parochial Foundation

Workplace diversity and employee well-being in Britain: WERS2004 based analysis

ESRC

Getinet Haile

Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998

Leverhulme

Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004

Nuffield Foundation.

Young women, sex and choices

Youth Cohort Study work programme 1997-1999

Department for Education and Employment

Joan Payne

Youth Cohort Study work programme 2000-2001

Department for Education and Employment

Joan Payne