Upcoming DWP research publications
This document provides details of upcoming Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research publications.
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Last updated 7 May 2024 + show all updates
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Advance notice that a report called 'The Evaluation of the Restart Scheme' will be published on 9 May 2024.
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Announcing the publication on 25 March 2024 of 'Digital Skills, Channel Preferences and Access Needs of DWP customers' and 'Digital Skills, Channel Preferences and Access Needs of PIP customers'.
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Advance notice that a report called 'Review of UK Material Deprivation Measures' will be published on 21 March 2024.
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Advance notice that a report called 'Research with self-employed Universal Credit claimants' will be published on 29 February 2024.
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Advance notice that 2 research reports will be published on 29 February 2024: 'The early evaluation of Discretionary Housing Payments' and 'Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 36: Discretionary Housing Payments'.
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Advance notice that a report called 'Estimating the employment impact of Universal Credit among single parents' will be published on 22 February 2024.
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Advance notice that 2 research reports will be published on: 6 February: Low earners and workplace pension saving – a qualitative study and Engaging with Pensions at Timely Moments.
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Pre-announced publication date of 31 October for 'BSA: Fraud and Error in Welfare Benefits, 2016-2022' and 'Survey of public perceptions of fraud, error and debt'.
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Advance notice that a report called "Work and Health Programme evaluation: synthesis report" will be published on 19 October 2023 at 9:30am.
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Advance notice that a report called "Qualitative research with Universal Credit telephone claimants" will be published on 19 September 2023 at 9:30am.
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Advance notice that a report called "DWP employer survey 2022" will be published on 14 September 2023 at 9:30am.
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Announced publication of 'Health-led Trials Impact Evaluation Reports' for 26 July 2023.
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Announced publication of the following research reports between August and September 2023: "Reducing Parental Conflict Programme 2018 to 2022: An evaluation of the effects of interventions on parental relationships and children"; "Reducing Parental Conflict Programme 2018 to 2022: Final evaluation report"; "Reducing Parental Conflict Programme 2018 to 2022: Diary research with parents accessing interventions".
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Announced publication of 'Kickstart Scheme: process evaluation' for 13 July 2023.
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Added new 6 July pre-announcement for research report 'Are household formation decisions and living together fraud & error affected by the Living Together as a Married Couple policy? An Evidence Review'
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Announced the publication of the Health Transformation Programme Evaluation Strategy. This will be published on 25 May 2023.
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Advance notice that 2 research reports 'Customer experience survey: benefit customers 2020 to 2021' and 'Customer experience survey: Child Maintenance Service 2020 to 2021' will be published on 25 May 2023.
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Announced the publication of the Work Coach-focused interim report from the research project ‘Cross-Cutting Evaluation of Plan for Jobs’. This will be published on 25 May 2023.
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Announced the publication of the 'Lower benefit cap: quantitative analysis of outcomes of capped households' research report for 20 April 2023.
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Announced the publication of 'Health-led Employment trials: Synthesis report' on 20 April 2023.
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Advance notice that an ad hoc research report called 'Workplace pensions and Automatic Enrolment: employers’ perspectives 2022' will be published on Wednesday 26 October 2022 at 9:30am.
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Updated the list of upcoming research publications to include: Separated Parents Survey, Survey of Child Support Agency Case Closure Outcomes and Direct Pay research 2017-2019 for 14 July 2022.
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Updated the list of upcoming research publications to include the 'Planning and Preparing for Later Life’ report.
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The list of upcoming research publications has been updated.
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Announced upcoming publication of: 'Reducing Parental Conflict Programme Evaluation: Third report on implementation' on 12 April 2022.
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Announced publication of "Employment Advisers in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Research" for 12 April 2022.
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Removed the following reports from the list of upcoming research publications because they have been delayed: 'Employment advisers in improving access to psychological therapies – client research', 'Employment advisers in improving access to psychological therapies – evaluation of the impact of employment adviser support'.
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Announced upcoming research for 29 March 2022: 'Support for Mortgage Interest loans: take-up', 'Employment advisers in improving access to psychological therapies – client research', and 'Employment advisers in improving access to psychological therapies – evaluation of the impact of employment adviser support'.
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Pre-announcing 'European Social Fund and Youth Employment Initiative Leavers Survey Report 2016-2019', 'Evaluation of the European Social Fund 2014-2020 Programme in England' and 'Youth Employment Initiative – Impact Evaluation'.
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Added 'Bereavement Support Payment evaluation' to the list of upcoming DWP research reports.
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Added details of 4 research reports that will be published in the week commencing 19 July 2021.
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Added details of 6 research reports that will be published in the week commencing 19 July 2021.
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Announced upcoming publication of 'The Future Cohort Study: understanding Universal Credit’s future in-work claimant group' on 1 July 2021.
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Announced upcoming research for 6 April 2021: 'Reducing Parental Conflict Challenge Fund: learning from the first phase', 'Reducing Parental Conflict programme: evaluation report on early implementation' and 'Examination of the links between parental conflict and substance misuse and the impacts on children’s outcomes'.
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Updated publication date of 'Pension charges survey 2020' to 13 January 2021.
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Announced upcoming 'Pension Charges Survey 2020' for 12 January 2021
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Announced upcoming 'Pension Freedoms: a qualitative research study of individuals’ decumulation journeys' report for 28 October 2020.
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Announced the publication of the Claimant Service and Experience Survey 2018 to 2019 for the week beginning 20 July 2020.
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Announced the 'automatic enrolment: qualitative research with newborn employers – final report' for publication in the week beginning 29 June 2020.
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Announced the 'Work aspirations and support needs of claimants in the Employment Support Allowance support group and Universal Credit equivalent' report for publication in the week beginning 24 February 2020.
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Announced the automatic enrolment evaluation report 2019 for publication in the week beginning 24 February 2020.
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Announced that 'In-work progression trial: further impact assessment and cost benefit analysis' and 'Interventions supporting ethnic minority labour market participation: part two' will be published week beginning 7 October 2019.
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Announced that 'In-work progression trial: further impact assessment and cost benefit analysis' and 'Interventions supporting ethnic minority labour market participation: part two' will now be published later in 2019.
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Added 'Employment Advisers in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies: process evaluation report', 'In-work progression trial: further impact assessment and cost benefit analysis' and 'Interventions supporting ethnic minority labour market participation: part two' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 22 July 2019.
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Added 'Sickness absence and health in the workplace: understanding employer behaviour and practice – an interim summary' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 24 June 2019.
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Added 'Understanding self-employment for people with disabilities and health conditions' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 13 May 2019.
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Added 'Understanding private providers of occupational health services: An interim summary of survey research' and 'Employers' motivations and practices: A study of the use of occupational health services' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 1 April 2019.
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Added 'Fraud and error deterrence/prevention message testing' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 25 March 2019.
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Added 'DWP employer engagement survey 2018' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 4 March 2019.
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Added 'DWP Areas of Research Interest 2019' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 25 February 2019.
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Added upcoming research publications for week commencing 25 February 2019.
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Added 'Planning and preparing for later life: a social survey feasibility study' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 4 February 2018.
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Added 'DWP claimant service and experience survey 2017 to 2018' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 28 January 2019.
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Added 'Interventions supporting ethnic minority labour market participation: part one' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 21 January 2019.
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Added 'Employment and Support Allowance: evaluation of pilots to support work-related activity group customers with an 18 to 24 month re-referral period' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 7 January 2019.
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Added 'Evaluation of phase 1 of the Local Family Offer pilot' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 7 January 2019.
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Added 'Automatic enrolment evaluation report 2018' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 17 December 2018.
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Added 'Local Authority Insight Survey wave 34: Fraud and error in Housing Benefit, changes to local authority structures and services, and Housing Benefit limiting absences outside Great Britain' and 'Local Authority Insight Survey wave 35: Supported accommodation: qualitative interviews with local authorities' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 17 December 2018.
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Added 'Pension Wise service evaluation 2017/18: Experiences and outcomes of customers using Pension Wise in 2017/18' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 26 November 2018.
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Added 'Access to Work research review' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 12 November 2018.
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Added 'Universal Credit: in-work progression randomised controlled trial' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 10 September 2018.
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Added 'Personal Independence Payment: claimant experiences of the claim process' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 3 September 2018.
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Added 'Innovation Fund pilot: assessment of return on investment' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 3 September 2018.
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Added 'Weekly Work Search Review trial' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 2 July 2018.
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Added 'European Social Fund impact evaluation: research design and scoping study' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 2 July 2018.
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Added 'Employers' pension provision survey 2017', 'Automatic enrolment: quantitative research with small and micro employers' and 'Fit for Work: process evaluation and feasibility of an impact evaluation' to list of upcoming research publications.
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Added 'Universal Credit full service claimant survey' and 'Universal Credit: understanding its impact on the labour market' to list of upcoming research publications.
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Added 'Personalisation Pathfinder: evaluation' to list of upcoming research publications.
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Added 'Jobseeker’s Allowance sanctions early warning trial evaluation: qualitative report' and 'Jobseeker’s Allowance sanctions early warning trial evaluation: final report' to list of upcoming research publications.
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Added 'Conversion of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) from a benefit into a loan: April 2018' to list of upcoming research publications.
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Added 'Evaluation of Jobcentre Plus Support for Schools programme: National roll-out evaluation' to list of upcoming research publications.
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Added 'Universal Credit managed migration and reduced Housing Benefit backdating period: Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 33' to list of upcoming research publications.
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Added 'DWP claimant service and experience survey 2016 to 2017' to list of upcoming research publications.
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