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Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND, and Ph.D. Fellow, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND, and M.Phil. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School
This evaluation tested the effectiveness of the Improving Working Memory + Arithmetic (IWM+A) intervention on improving the working memory and numeracy skills of children in Year 3.
Merrilyn Groom, Madeline Nightingale, Lillian Flemons, James Merewood, Giovanni Amodeo, Fin Oades, Ben Senator, Elena Rosa Speciani
Spotlight 2023–2024 highlights some of the challenges that need urgent policy responses on issues such as AI and emerging tech to strategic trends for defence and security through to improving women's healthcare and tackling illegal drug markets.
RAND Europe and partners conducted a study to examine the broader societal impacts of research conducted at UK higher education institutions, as represented by the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Impact Case Studies.
Cagla Stevenson, Jonathan Grant, Martin Szomszor, Cecilia Ang, Devika Kapoor, Salil Gunashekar, Susan Guthrie
RAND Europe and partners conducted a study to examine – for the first time – the broader societal impacts of research conducted at Scottish universities, as represented by the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Impact Case Studies.
Cagla Stevenson, Jonathan Grant, Martin Szomszor, Cecilia Ang, Devika Kapoor, Michelle Qu, Salil Gunashekar
The Porticus IntegratED Programme aimed to reduce preventable exclusion from school and improve the quality of alternative provision. Evaluations by RAND Europe and NFER identify key Programme achievements and lessons for other philanthropic funders.
Emma Disley, Natalie Picken, Lillian Flemons, Emily Hutton, Kerry Martin, Eleanor Bradley, Megan Lucas, Caroline Sharp
Commissioned by the British Academy, we investigated how social sciences, humanities and arts for people and the economy (SHAPE) R&D is understood and captured in the UK economy and in a wider international context, using a mixed methods approach.
Isabel Flanagan, Dominic Yiangou, Cecilia Ang, Sarah Parkinson, Susan Guthrie
The briefing examines best practice in early childhood education and care from around the world to identify approaches that could be used to improve the system in England and ensure all children progress, particularly those facing disadvantage.
Elena Rosa Speciani, Merrilyn Groom, Kankan Zhang, Sarah Angell
This study explores the prevalence and drivers of financial (in)stability among military families in the United Kingdom. It provides recommendations for improving policy and finance-related support based on a critical review of the support landscape.
Linda Slapakova, Kristin Thue, Luke Huxtable
This research brief summarises the findings and recommendations for policy and practice from a study looking at the prevalence and drivers of financial (in)stability among military families in the United Kingdom.
This report gives a detailed overview of the methods used in the evaluation of the Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce (APST).
Natalie Picken, Emma Disley, Richard Dorsett, Dave Thomson, Elle Wadsworth, Ana FitzSimons, Elena Rosa Speciani, Judith Ajebon
The Year 2 Report is a mixed methods process evaluation of the implementation of NELI at scale across schools in England, using surveys, interviews and case studies. It focuses on schools who signed up to deliver NELI in the 2021/22 academic year.
Emma Disley, Madeline Nightingale, Asha Haider, Giovanni Amodeo, Mann Virdee
