Work and social policy projects
PSI's current focus is environment and sustainability research. However, we have a long history of research into work and social policy; our recent projects in this area are listed here.
Listed by date (see title-ordered list)
July 2013 to
Basic Skills Training in Adulthood
March 2013 to November 2013
Employment, pay and poverty: evidence and policy review
October 2012 to August 2013
The 1990s: sectoral rebalancing, mobility and adaptation - the employment, self-employment and training policy lessons for the current UK recession
August 2012 to June 2013
Stakeholder views and experiences of Caloriewise
February 2012 to March 2012
Review of the DWP Cost Benefit Framework and how it has been applied
January 2012 to December 2012
Evaluation of FSA Guidance on Cross Contamination
January 2012 to December 2012
Evaluation of the 'Survival Guide to Food' Project summary
December 2011 to June 2012
Working after state-pension age
November 2011 to June 2012
Provision of support to expert hearing on member states' experience on using control groups in ESF evaluations and its follow-up
November 2011 to February 2012
Perceptions of the Police and Crime Mapping Trailblazers
October 2011 to March 2014
Evaluation of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme and the Food Hygiene Information Scheme
August 2011 to January 2012
Impact Evaluation of Online Health Check
January 2011 to April 2011
Diversity: the experience of discrimination on multiple grounds
September 2010 to October 2010
Ethnicity and poverty: employer attitudes and behaviour
April 2010 to November 2011
Single Parents' Work Aspirations
March 2010 to May 2010
TRIF Literature Review for the Community Development Foundation
January 2010 to November 2010
Cohesion in Bradford: disadvantage, solidarity and recession
January 2010 to October 2010
Expanding the evidence base for the design of policy influencing consumer choice of products and services and environmental impact
December 2009 to May 2010
The EHRC Triennial Review
November 2009 to May 2010
Provision of an Evaluation Advisory Study