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Upcoming DWP research publications

This document provides details of upcoming Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research publications.

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Published 18 January 2018
Last updated 16 December 2024 + show all updates
  1. Pre-announcement for publication on 19 December 2014 of 'Hospitality SWAP pilot: Customer feedback research' .

  2. Added pre-announcements for the following 5 reports to be published on 17 December 2024: ‘Apply for PIP Digital Self-Serve: Evaluation Summary’, 'Move to Universal Credit Late Claimers (formerly Tax Credit customers) Qualitative Research', 'Move to Universal Credit non-claimants (formerly tax credits customers) Research', 'Move to Universal Credit for Tax Credit Couples Qualitative Research' and 'Annual DWP Gender Pay Gap Report 2023-2024'.

  3. Pre-announcement of ‘Public perceptions of DWP and DWP brands Autumn 2024’ to be published in early 2025

  4. Advance notice that 30 research reports will be published today (7 October 2024) at 1:30pm.

  5. Pre-announcement for publication on 29 August 2024 of 3 Customer Experience Surveys: Benefit customers - 2021 to 2022, 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024. And 3 Customer Experience Surveys: Child Maintenance Service 2021 to 2022, 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024.

  6. Announced publication on 23 May 2024 of: Plan for Jobs Cross-cutting Evaluation Wave 1 and 2 synthesis report.

  7. Advance notice that a report called 'Experience of claiming and receiving Carer’s Allowance' will be published on 16 May 2024.

  8. Advance notice that a report called 'The Evaluation of the Restart Scheme' will be published on 9 May 2024.

  9. 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'.

  10. Advance notice that a report called 'Review of UK Material Deprivation Measures' will be published on 21 March 2024.

  11. Advance notice that a report called 'Research with self-employed Universal Credit claimants' will be published on 29 February 2024.

  12. 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'.

  13. Advance notice that a report called 'Estimating the employment impact of Universal Credit among single parents' will be published on 22 February 2024.

  14. 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.

  15. 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'.

  16. Advance notice that a report called "Work and Health Programme evaluation: synthesis report" will be published on 19 October 2023 at 9:30am.

  17. Advance notice that a report called "Qualitative research with Universal Credit telephone claimants" will be published on 19 September 2023 at 9:30am.

  18. Advance notice that a report called "DWP employer survey 2022" will be published on 14 September 2023 at 9:30am.

  19. Announced publication of 'Health-led Trials Impact Evaluation Reports' for 26 July 2023.

  20. 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".

  21. Announced publication of 'Kickstart Scheme: process evaluation' for 13 July 2023.

  22. 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'

  23. Announced the publication of the Health Transformation Programme Evaluation Strategy. This will be published on 25 May 2023.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. Announced the publication of the 'Lower benefit cap: quantitative analysis of outcomes of capped households' research report for 20 April 2023.

  27. Announced the publication of 'Health-led Employment trials: Synthesis report' on 20 April 2023.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. Updated the list of upcoming research publications to include the 'Planning and Preparing for Later Life’ report.

  31. The list of upcoming research publications has been updated.

  32. Announced upcoming publication of: 'Reducing Parental Conflict Programme Evaluation: Third report on implementation' on 12 April 2022.

  33. Announced publication of "Employment Advisers in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Research" for 12 April 2022.

  34. 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'.

  35. 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'.

  36. 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'.

  37. Added 'Bereavement Support Payment evaluation' to the list of upcoming DWP research reports.

  38. Added details of 4 research reports that will be published in the week commencing 19 July 2021.

  39. Added details of 6 research reports that will be published in the week commencing 19 July 2021.

  40. Announced upcoming publication of 'The Future Cohort Study: understanding Universal Credit’s future in-work claimant group' on 1 July 2021.

  41. 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'.

  42. Updated publication date of 'Pension charges survey 2020' to 13 January 2021.

  43. Announced upcoming 'Pension Charges Survey 2020' for 12 January 2021

  44. Announced upcoming 'Pension Freedoms: a qualitative research study of individuals’ decumulation journeys' report for 28 October 2020.

  45. Announced the publication of the Claimant Service and Experience Survey 2018 to 2019 for the week beginning 20 July 2020.

  46. Announced the 'automatic enrolment: qualitative research with newborn employers – final report' for publication in the week beginning 29 June 2020.

  47. 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.

  48. Announced the automatic enrolment evaluation report 2019 for publication in the week beginning 24 February 2020.

  49. 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.

  50. 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.

  51. 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.

  52. 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.

  53. Added 'Understanding self-employment for people with disabilities and health conditions' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 13 May 2019.

  54. 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.

  55. Added 'Fraud and error deterrence/prevention message testing' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 25 March 2019.

  56. Added 'DWP employer engagement survey 2018' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 4 March 2019.

  57. Added 'DWP Areas of Research Interest 2019' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 25 February 2019.

  58. Added upcoming research publications for week commencing 25 February 2019.

  59. 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.

  60. Added 'DWP claimant service and experience survey 2017 to 2018' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 28 January 2019.

  61. Added 'Interventions supporting ethnic minority labour market participation: part one' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 21 January 2019.

  62. 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.

  63. Added 'Evaluation of phase 1 of the Local Family Offer pilot' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 7 January 2019.

  64. Added 'Automatic enrolment evaluation report 2018' to the list of upcoming research for the week beginning 17 December 2018.

  65. 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.

  66. 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.

  67. Added 'Access to Work research review' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 12 November 2018.

  68. Added 'Universal Credit: in-work progression randomised controlled trial' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 10 September 2018.

  69. Added 'Personal Independence Payment: claimant experiences of the claim process' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 3 September 2018.

  70. Added 'Innovation Fund pilot: assessment of return on investment' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 3 September 2018.

  71. Added 'Weekly Work Search Review trial' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 2 July 2018.

  72. Added 'European Social Fund impact evaluation: research design and scoping study' to the list of upcoming research for week beginning 2 July 2018.

  73. 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.

  74. Added 'Universal Credit full service claimant survey' and 'Universal Credit: understanding its impact on the labour market' to list of upcoming research publications.

  75. Added 'Personalisation Pathfinder: evaluation' to list of upcoming research publications.

  76. 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.

  77. Added 'Conversion of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) from a benefit into a loan: April 2018' to list of upcoming research publications.

  78. Added 'Evaluation of Jobcentre Plus Support for Schools programme: National roll-out evaluation' to list of upcoming research publications.

  79. Added 'Universal Credit managed migration and reduced Housing Benefit backdating period: Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 33' to list of upcoming research publications.

  80. Added 'DWP claimant service and experience survey 2016 to 2017' to list of upcoming research publications.

  81. First published.

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