Social housing stigma: The uncomfortable truth
After speaking at HQN’s annual Housing Management Conference last week on the topic of stigma in social housing, IFF Associate Director, Kate Roberts, shares her reflections on where the sector’s at and what needs to be done to re-engage customers.

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Climate Change in Education: time to get to work
Last month the Department for Education published its Sustainability and Climate Change policy outlining a vision that the UK education system becomes the “world-leading education sector in sustainability and climate change by 2030”.

In our latest blog we review the policy and discuss potential challenges with implementation.

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DfE’s higher education policy reform - a quick temperature check
Whilst the sector eagerly awaits the outcome from the Department for Education’s higher education policy reform consultation, we provide a quick temperature check on the responses given by mission groups and sector bodies so far across three of the main areas of the consultation: the National Scholarship Scheme, student number controls and foundation year provision.

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IFF Research: Social & Market Research Agency

Who we are

IFF Research is an independent social and market research agency with a strong reputation for delivering high quality and high impact research.

We’ve been helping our clients overcome challenges and achieve their objectives since 1965. Using this experience, we’ve helped hundreds of organisations make informed decisions from robust and reliable insight.

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What we do

We provide tailor-made research solutions that help our clients from the public, private and voluntary sector make better informed decisions.

Using our expertise in a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, we design and deliver effective solutions for impactful results.

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How we do it

IFF Research is a full-service agency, which means we support our clients at all stages of your project, from design to data collection and dissemination.

As your research partner, we use our understanding of your needs, to create the most appropriate solution, with senior involvement and strong communication throughout.

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Our key sectors

Learning & Skills

Discovering how government policy affects learners, workers and business

Higher Education

Helping institutions make better decisions throughout the higher education lifecycle

Housing

Helping housing providers, government and business to solve housing-related challenges

Business & Enterprise

Evaluating business growth, innovation and government schemes designed to support them

Work & Welfare

Helping ensure the effective functioning of the welfare system, understand the employer-employee relationship and guide policy development

Regulation

Helping regulators make fair and informed decisions

Health & Wellbeing

Rigorous research to support organisations striving to improve the health and wellbeing of the population

Financial Services

Supporting growth and innovation within the financial services sector

Energy & Environment

Informing policy decisions and supporting sustainable business

A handful of our clients

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“IFF are a fantastic agency to work with. We’ve always felt that there is a strong sense of partnership. Every time they look over something there is always a willingness to advise and provide suggestions. They’ve been very flexible and always deliver rapidly and efficiently. Delivery is always on-point, we’re always kept in the loop and when they say they’re on top of something or say they will deliver we trust that it’s going to be true. It’s been wonderful working with them.”

Warren Earl, Customer Insight Manager, Peabody