Reports

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies is a guide on systems thinking and practice in the context and needs of the UK's FCDO. The guide offers a common language and shared framing of systems thinking for FCDO and its partners. It explores what this implies for working practices, business processes...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at how the Global Minimum Corporate Tax Undermines the UK. The Adam Smith Institute’s latest paper, written by Dr. Tyler Goodspeed, calls for a rethink of the UK’s decision to rush implementation of a global minimum corporate tax rate. The UK’s decision to rush...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the role of England’s mayors in the climate transition. This report calls on the UK government to put England’s mayors at the heart of its net zero strategy and give England’s locally elected leaders the powers and funding to become trailblazers in transitioning...

This report from UK think tank The Sutton Trust looks at the impact of hours spent in early years provision on children's outcomes at age five. Several decades of research has found that early education and care can have a positive effect on children’s cognitive, behavioural and social outcomes, particularly if it is of high...

This report from UK think tank Centre for Cities looks at the UK’s army of hidden unemployed people. Cities Outlook 2023 finds that official unemployment figures mask an army of hidden workers in cities and large towns in the North of England in particular. This underscores once again the pressing need for a set of...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at what is driving reglobalization. The current pattern of economic integration and fracturing across different economies and sectors is best described as ‘reglobalization’. Globalization is far from finished, but is changing in nature through countries’ emphasis on stronger regional links and the formation of economic blocs...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at making sense of Hungary's and Serbia's Russia stance. In this report, Professor Dr Marlene Laruelle and Dr Helena Ivanov investigate the level and underlying causes of pro-Russian sentiment in Serbia and Hungary. Both countries have been noted for their approach to Russia’s invasion...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government is their annual, data-based assessment of the UK civil service over the past year.  This is the 10th edition of Whitehall Monitor – our annual, data-based assessment of the UK civil service, how it has changed and performed over the past year, and its priorities...

This report from UK think tanks The Sutton Trust and CEPEO looks at the incidence of COVID-19 and long COVID among young people. This briefing, from the first wave of the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) study, explores the incidence of COVID-19 and long COVID among young people, as well as how many young...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies is a practical guide to create a visual map of the key resources and assets in a community. This method enables participants to create a visual map of the key resources and assets in their community, organisation, workplace etc, that are important for their...

This report from UK think tank the Sutton Trust looks at how the ongoing cost of living crisis is impacting students. Students are known for making do on a tight budget. But those close margins make them particularly vulnerable to the rising cost of living. This new polling, conducted by Savanta for the Sutton Trust,...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies offers practical guidance on body mapping and why it might be useful. Body mapping may be useful for practitioners and researchers who want to: Examine and appreciate how emotions, cultural norms or practices relate to (specific parts of) physical bodies, or are embodied; Explore...

This report from UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at how levels of poverty differ between groups of people and regions. UK Poverty 2023 sets out recent trends in poverty across the UK, how levels of poverty differ between groups of people and regions, and the impact it has on people’s lives. These...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the government’s claims for why the NHS crisis is happening and the effect of its response. The government’s emergency measures to support the NHS will likely be too little and too late to solve this winter’s crisis. The report evaluates the government’s claims...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at how the North and the UK measure up in levelling up.  The UK continues to stand out internationally for the wrong reason: because it is the most regionally unbalanced large, advanced economy. Our latest analysis highlights continued and growing regional divides in productivity, incomes, job creation,...

This report from UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation evaluates the Talking about Poverty project, which ran from 2016 to 2021. This report evaluates the Talking about Poverty project, which ran from 2016 to 2021, and aimed to develop a more effective way of communicating about UK poverty through ‘framing’ – an evidence-based communications...

This report from UK think tank the IIED looks at how retailers can make positive contributions to healthier oceans and sustainable fisheries. Sustainable Development Goal 14.b calls for providing ‘access for small-scale fishers to marine resources and markets’ by 2030. Small-scale fisheries directly support approximately 7% of the global population and make up 47% of...

This report from UK think tank the UK in a Changing Europe looks at both where we have got to and how the relationship might evolve. Six and a half years since the Brexit referendum, UK relations with the EU have still not settled into a coherent and consistent pattern. Partly, this is because the...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance looks at how to engage people on changing land use for climate and nature. Twin imperatives to tackle climate change and restore nature are leading to policy changes across England, Scotland and Wales which will alter the current pattern of land use and its management. As well...

This report from UK think tank The King's Fund looks at the role of the independent sector in providing health care. Discussion around the role of the independent sector in providing health care often focuses on the ‘privatisation’ of the NHS. Private providers have always played a role in the NHS, and while there was...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at the 'net dependency ratio’ and hoe many live in households receiving more in benefits than they pay in tax. This analysis of Office for National Statistics (ONS) data for the impact of tax and benefits on household income shows that a record 54.2 per cent of...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies demolishes a series of longstanding and damaging myths about the British housing sector. As public debate about the housing and planning system grows, a new report from the Centre for Policy Studies demolishes a series of longstanding and increasingly damaging myths about the British...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO looks at maths apps as an emerging trend in young children's learning environments aiming to raise attainment. Educational maths applications (apps) are an emerging trend in young children's learning environments aiming to raise attainment. The current systematic review aimed to thematically synthesise quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance looks at how to transition rural land use to restore nature and achieve net zero globally. Rural land use must change to restore nature and achieve net zero globally. Instead of being a source of emissions, it must remove carbon from the atmosphere, while also making space...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at how the rule of law could strengthen British national identity and maintain UK soft power. This report from Social Market Foundation think-tank looks present steps to restabilising the rule of law in the UK, to strengthen internal unity and ensuring that it remains...