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Project showcase: Exploring the impact of a transformative accommodation and support service

As part of our 60th anniversary celebrations, we’re looking back at some of the meaningful work we’ve delivered over the past six decades. In this sixth and final project showcase, we discuss our evaluation of a support and accommodation service.

Principles in practice: co-design and co-production with lived experience

We look at how co-design and co-production with those with lived experience is used to bring about more informed approaches and findings,

The UK’s growth puzzle: regulation vs innovation

Directors Matt Barnes and Alistair Keuchel unpack the UK’s growth challenge, using insight from some of our research.

Rethinking work: Why IFF is trialling a four-day week

At IFF, people are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why, this summer, in line with our value of being human first, we began trialling a four-day working week – exploring what the future of work might look like in practice.

Project showcase: 14 years of mapping the UK skills landscape through the Employer Skills Survey

As part of our 60th anniversary celebrations, we’re looking back at some of the meaningful work we’ve delivered. In this fifth project showcase, we explore the Employer Skills Survey, and the insight it provides on the UK labour market.

Principles in practice: safeguarding and ethical rigour

We examine what safeguarding and ethical rigour really means in practice; looking at how our researchers protect identities and data, minimise harm, and navigate sensitive situations with empathy and professionalism.

Why are we still talking about Clearing?

As Clearing advertising takes a significant amount of undergraduate advertising budget, it prompted me to think about how it’s always worth revisiting how to maximise awareness, understanding, and recall in your target audiences.

Principles in practice: amplifying underrepresented voices

Our mini-series explores social research on people who face complex challenges, starting with the six principles we apply to our projects.

Project showcase: Understanding the lives behind the lessons to inform education policymaking

As part of our 60th anniversary celebrations, we’re looking back at some of the meaningful work we’ve delivered over the past six decades. In this fourth project showcase, we discuss the most comprehensive study of the teaching profession.

Unlocking opportunity: Ayo’s reflections on the 10,000 Interns programme

Interested in internships? Ayo, our research intern in the summer, shares her reflections and thoughts from her time with us.

Shaping their futures: young people’s aspirations for higher education

In a rapidly shifting economic and social landscape, today’s 16 to 18-year-olds face a complex decision about whether to pursue higher education. We’ve explored their views.

Telephone interviewing at IFF: A rewarding role with flexibility & purpose

As we kick-off a large scale recruitment campaign for remote telephone interviewers to conduct our important survey work, we speak to an ex-interviewer to find out more about what the role entails

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