Reports

This report from UK think tank Bright Blue is a collection of essays on policies and priorities across the dimensions of climate security, migration and innovation. Climate change has no respect for national borders and as such can only be mitigated through international cooperation, demonstrating the importance of COP26 and climate diplomacy more broadly. Despite...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at the implications of an 'always on' culture for businesses, teams and individuals. This guide to digital boundaries and disconnection at work, produced jointly by the Work Foundation and Prospect, explores the implications of an 'always on' culture for businesses, teams and individuals, and lays...

This report from UK think tank the Sutton Trust looks at socio-economic diversity in the engineering sector: access, pay and progression. Engineering is a large and diverse sector which is vital for the UK economy. It represents a considerable proportion of the UK workforce, with 18% of the UK working population based in engineering and...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies looks at action for empowerment and accountability in challenging contexts. How and under what conditions does citizen-led social and political action contribute to empowerment and accountability? What are the strategies used, and with what outcomes, especially in settings which are democratically weak, politically fragile...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at improving access to pensions advice and guidance. In our latest report, A Guiding Hand, the SMF finds that Brits are woefully unprepared to be able to achieve their desired retirement standard of living. The lack of high-quality support is set to create an...

This report from UK think tank UK in a Changing Europe looks at public opinion in the UK on the UK's constitutional future. Drawing on the expertise of over 40 of the UK’s top experts on public opinion, British Politics after Brexit provides a comprehensive overview of public opinion in the UK. The landscape of British...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance looks at why it is not economic to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea. The spike in the global gas price since 2021 has seen UK households struggle to afford their energy bills. Some think a solution to this energy crisis is to increase...

This report from UK think tank CLES looks at the role of procurement in local economic development. This analysis was conducted by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) for Manchester City Council as part of an ongoing partnership. The 14-year collaboration between CLES and Manchester City Council has helped to reshape the national debate...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at three strategic export industries and how freeports can help. In the third of a three-part series on UK trade, Phil Radford looks at why manufacturing in strategic industries has either moved offshore or stayed offshore. Prospects for a Global Britain: Three Strategic Export Industries for the...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at what measures are in place to protect UK research from foreign interference. This report reviews what measures are in place to protect UK research from foreign interference, including the new National Security and Investment Act (2021) that came into force on 4 January 2022. It argues...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at expanding the role of banks and building societies in supporting financial resilience. The pandemic has exacerbated existing financial inequalities in the UK and weakened financial resilience, especially among the most vulnerable people. This briefing explores the role of the retail banking sector in...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at proposed reforms to leadership, governance and coordination in the UN Rome-based agencies. Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger (SDG2) remains out of reach. SDG2 progress has slowed over the last few years, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to exacerbate the problem....

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society is an in-depth study of the Iranian regime’s foreign policy impact in the Arabian Gulf region. This project involved undertaking an in-depth and exhaustive study of the Iranian regime’s foreign policy impacts upon British and American national security interests in the Arabian Gulf region. Specifically,...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at property rights on the moon. This Adam Smith Institute’s latest paper, by Rebecca Lowe, consultant and former director of the FREER think tank, argues that creating a clear system of property rights in space could turbocharge scientific discovery and give all of humanity...

This report from UK think tank Resolution Foundation looks at managing fiscal pressures in the 2020s. The 2020s are set to be a decade in which the spending pressures from ageing intensify, healthcare costs continue to rise, and the state needs to invest more to drive a rapid transition to net zero. These trends will...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at what worked, what didn’t and what next for the Gove reforms. A decade since Michael Gove passed legislation allowing all schools to convert to academy status, this report sets out a programme of reform to build a coherent all-academy system. It argues that...

This report from UK think tank Onward looks at the case for civil service relocation. The Government’s desire to “level up” economic opportunity and govern in the interests of historically left-behind areas is being undermined by slow progress in moving large numbers of civil servants out of Whitehall. Our analysis shows that, despite bold ministerial...

This report from UK think tank Social Market Foundation looks at new evidence on the attitudes of home heat installers towards decarbonisation and heat pumps. Getting to net zero crucially means replacing millions of those fossil-fuel burning gas boilers with something else, like a heat pump. But is the workforce prepared for this monumental task?...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the attempt by the government to turn a campaigning slogan into a plan of action. The Levelling Up the United Kingdom white paper is a genuine attempt by the government to turn a campaigning slogan into a plan of action – one that...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at creating a post-pandemic world of healthier work. That work determines health has been impossible to ignore during a pandemic. People in ‘working class jobs’ have been around twice as likely to die from Covid-19 than those in ‘middle class jobs’. And those in the lowest paid...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at why Brexit's benefits to the UK have been widely underestimated. In this report published by Civitas, Professor Minford (Professor of Applied Economics, Cardiff University) analyses the ways in which official trade modelling and policy assumptions have underestimated the gains from free trade with non-EU countries. The...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at three key power relationships at the heart of the constitution that are currently under strain. The UK’s constitution has been placed under huge strain by Brexit and the pandemic. This has also created an opportunity to reinvigorate UK democracy, restore trust in the...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice provides a new vision for supporting victims of modern slavery. These are just some of the thousands of lives devasted by modern slavery across our country. Over 10,000 people were referred to the Home Office as possible victims of modern slavery in 2020, but...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how the government dealt with the pandemic alongside long-term policy goals. Major reform is needed for government to respond to crises like the pandemic while simultaneously delivering long-term policy goals. Whitehall Monitor 2022 reveals how the government has been handling the Covid crisis...

This report from UK think tank UK in a Changing Europe looks at how policy and policymaking have changed in a range of sectors. Brexit is done, but what does it mean? Doing things differently? Policy after Brexit brings together a number experts in their respective fields to investigate how policy and policymaking have changed...