Our publications
The Institute for Policy Research brings together many of the University’s research strengths to provide a platform from which this research can exert a greater influence on public policies – locally, nationally and internationally.
These publications highlight the real-world research carried out at the University, and its relevance to people’s lives.
Policy Briefs
- A very large gamble: evidence on Quantitative Easing in the US and UK
- Climate change regulation: reviewing the market-based approach
- Corporate and police spying on activists undermines democracy
- Extending working life: behaviour change interventions
- Father's Friday: encouraging paternal engagement in children's education and development
- Innovative political strategies of tobacco companies aimed at undermining UK and EU health policy
- Labour and love: wives’ employment and divorce risk in its socio-political context
- Protecting Palestinian children from political violence
- Risks to the individual in Defined Contribution pension schemes
- The family-work project: working lone mother families and their children
- The global auction for high skilled work: implications for economic policy
- The impact of smokefree legislation (‘the smoking ban’): evidence from research
- What a drag: the chilling impact of unemployment on real wages
- Why European organisations fail to be truly transformative actors in interethnic relations
- Affording a funeral
- An examination on the impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in late childhood and adolescence
- Digital inheritance
- Exploring new avenues for social policy and social welfare action
- Extending end of life care with social media
- Financial services, social networks and financial practices: investigating use and impact
- Govanhill community engagement
- Impact assessment of financial market development through the lens of complexity theory
- Lone parents’ mental health and employment
- Partnership dissolution and formation: how do they affect income employment and wellbeing?
- Religion and social policy in the Middle East: beyond the rentier state towards a new ethic of welfare
- Strategic identity management in cyberspace (sock puppets)
- Taking advice? Evaluating the impact of Citizens Advice Bureau services
- The changing nature of lone parenthood and its consequences
- The future cemetery
- Understanding and explaining terrorism expertise in practice
- Understanding and Responding to those Bereaved Through their Family Members' Substance Misuse
- Understanding the determinates of intergenerational mobility and the processes underlying individual decision-making
- Urban growth, domestic fuel and sustainable forestry in Kano, Nigeria
- Wellbeing and poverty pathways
- Youth, activism and extractive industry in Sierra Leone
Videos
- A wolf in sheep's clothing: the corporate subversion of public health
- Climate change - what is to be done? (Launch Conference Panel debate)
- Climate change - what is to be done? (Video shown at Launch Conference)
- Cremation and cemeteries
- Father's Friday
- Firm ground or quick sand? Intervention and security in the Sahel
- Plans for future development of the Institute
- Policy and changing families
- Queen's Anniversary Prize Winer 2011
- Sport society and social justice
- The labour market in winter: unemployment and its legacy
