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A wealth of recent research exists which can help our understanding of various aspects of adult learning and skills. Click on the list below to view or enter your own key words in the search box at the top of the page. You can also click on the links in the alphabetical list on the left.
Extending Working Lives in the Further Education and Skills Sector
The Further Education and Skills Sector in 2020: a Social Productivity Approach
Learning and Skills for a Global Economy
Business as Usual? Increasing employer investment in skills
Living through Change: the effects of global, national and local change on people
Poverty and Ethnicity: A review of evidence
Social Networks: their role in addressing poverty
Globalisation, UK Poverty and Communities
How to Survey Hard-to-reach Populations
The Effect of Interviewer Personality, Skills and Attitudes on Respondent Cooperation with Face-to-face Surveys
New Research on Employment of Disabled People
Careers Guidance Has Little Effect on Teenagers’ Choices
Activating Lone Parents: an evidence-based policy appraisal of the recent welfare-to-work reform in Britain
Inequality in Pupils’ Educational Attainment: how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?
Causal Effect of Parents’ Education on Children’s Education
Progression Post-16 for Learners with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities
Evaluation of the Community Champions Fund
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality in Adult Learning
Experience Required: capability and building work readiness
Through the Looking Glass
Coming of Age: exploring ageing in culture and society and investigating how public policy should respond to the challenges posed by the ageing society
Building Character
The Home Front
Open Economics
The Forgotten Half
3D Poverty
Measuring Social Value
Researching the Recognition of Prior Learning: International Perspectives
Social Value of Adult Learning for Community Empowerment
Social Value of Adult Learning on Adult Social Care
Social Value of Adult Learning for Children and Young People’s Services
Lifelong Learning and Social Justice: Communities, Work and Identities in a Globalised World
Literacy, Numeracy and Disadvantage among Older Adults in England
Feedback, Talk and Engaging with Learners: formative assessment in adult numeracy
Research Briefing: Persistence
A Literature Review of International Adult Literacy Policies
Lone Parent Obligations: supporting the journey to work
Best Practice in Tackling NEETs
Understanding NEET: lessons for policy and practice
The Wolf Report: Review of vocational education
Snakes and Ladders: who climbs the rungs of the earnings ladder
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Human Well-being
Transmission, Transformation and Ritual
The Influence of Parents, Places and Poverty on Educational Attitudes and Aspirations
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK
Employment Trajectories and Later Employment Outcomes for Mothers in the British Household Panel Survey: an analysis by skill level
Social Housing and Social Exclusion 2000-2011
Education, Basic Skills and Health-related Outcomes
Understanding Society
Shaping the Community Scorecard Action Research Project Final Report
Poverty, Ethnicity and Education
Occupational Change and Mobility among Employed and Unemployed Jobseekers
Youth Labour’s Lost
Community Assets: emerging learning, challenges and questions
Post-16 Education and Training Provision for Young People Involved in Crime: literature review
London’s Calling: young Londoners, social mobility and access to higher education
Building the Big Society
Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2011
Destination Unknown
The Rise of the Equalities Industry
Up to the Job
Towards the ‘Big Society’: What role for neighbourhood working? Evidence from a comparative European Study
Reading the Riots
Obstacles and Opportunities: Today’s children and tomorrow’s families
(1) Annual national monitoring report 2010-11; (2) Every Child a Reader 2010-11
Review of research and evaluation on improving adult literacy and numeracy skills
Young People with Special Educational Needs/Learning Difficulties and Disabilities: Research into Planning for Adult Life and Services
