Latest Projects
Work incentives in the tax and benefit system
Incomes, Work & Poverty,Economic Analysis & Modelling
20 February 2024
This project will identify where, and why, work incentives remain poor for so many people by conducting a comprehensive study of work incentives throughout the tax and benefit system
GUIDEPREP: The preparation phase for the Growing Up In Digital Europe survey
Education, Childhood & Youth,Surveys & Longitudinal Data
20 February 2024
Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE) will be Europe’s first comparative birth cohort study of children’s and young people’s wellbeing.
Evaluation of Primary Science Quality Mark in English Primary Schools
Education, Childhood & Youth,Randomised Controlled Trials
9 November 2023
PERU with colleagues from ESRI have been awarded a grant from the Education Endowment Foundation to evaluate the Primary Science Quality Mark programme.
Evaluation of Reading Plus in English Primary Schools
Education, Childhood & Youth,Randomised Controlled Trials
9 November 2023
Along with colleagues in ESRI, Peru has been awarded a grant of £550k to evaluate the impact of Reading Plus on pupils in Year 6 of primary school.
Exploring the intersections between ethnicity, care experience and youth justice involvement in England
Education, Childhood & Youth,Surveys & Longitudinal Data
20 October 2023
The primary focus of this ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK) Research Fellowship is to understand the links between care experience (i.e. having been in foster care, children’s homes and/or kinship care), ethnicity and involvement with the youth justice system in England.
Social Media, Youth and Consumption of Cultural Spaces (LOCUS)
Incomes, Work & Poverty,Social Innovation,Surveys & Longitudinal Data
23 June 2023
LOCUS explores young people’s interactions with cultural spaces through the lens of social media consumption. This project investigates to what extent young people’s social media consumption transforms cultural spaces to “performative spaces” and how young people’s engagement with such spaces enacts their digital identities.