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The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) wanted evidence of the impact of funding community-based activities, intended to improve vaccine uptake in local areas with high levels of vaccine hesitancy.

The Work and Health Unit (WHU) wanted to fill an evidence gap around what the ‘big picture’ of UK Occupational Health (OH) and work-related Musculoskeletal (MSK) provision in the UK looked like.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) wanted to measure the impacts of locally-tailored activities designed to create stronger, more-integrated communities.

IFF brought together a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches to deliver an audience segmentation that enabled the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to work in a more targeted way with a group of benefit claimants, about which relatively little had previously been known.

Apprenticeships are a key part of DfE’s skills and technical education strategy aimed at increasing productivity, supporting growth, giving individuals from all backgrounds opportunities, and helping businesses develop the skills of their workforce. The Apprenticeship Evaluation survey is the department’s key source of information on the experiences of apprentices and employers.

Acas developed a series of early interventions in the employment dispute resolution system. They wanted to know the impact of each intervention, their operations and their overall impact.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) needed in-depth data on why six social groups were less likely to follow the UK’s coronavirus guidance to quickly inform thinking about the evolving approach to the pandemic, across the UK government.

The Department for Education wanted to understand what schools do to prevent exclusions and off-site direction, schools’ relationship with alternative provision (AP), and practices in AP settings.

The Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities wanted to find out how effectively their ESOL for Integration Fund had been delivered and what impacts it had for people with no or little English language skills.

Innovate UK needed to conduct an interim evaluation of the Innovation Loan programme, a pilot scheme providing repayable financial support to innovative businesses they may otherwise not have been able to secure.

Requiring insight to help resolve issues around recruitment, progression and retention within child and family social work, the Department for Education commissioned a five-year longitudinal research project.

ONS commissioned IFF Research to develop a new online survey in 2017, collecting highly detailed data on turnover generated by businesses in the services sector, replacing the paper-based Services Turnover Survey.

Beyond Housing were developing a new Customer Experience Blueprint to underpin how it delivers services. To inform it, they were looking to really understand how customers were interacting with them throughout the full lifecycle as a Beyond customer.

Following the introduction of subject-level TEF in 2017 the Office for Students wanted to measure its performance from their year 2 pilot to enable further development of the framework before a full sector roll out in 2020.

Graduate Outcomes is the largest social survey in the UK, capturing the perspectives and the current status of graduates 15 months after they finish their studies. Running since 2018, IFF supports HESA to collect almost 400,000 responses each year.

Since 2019, IFF have helped Activity Alliance to understand activity levels amongst disabled and non-disabled adults, through the Annual Disability and Activity Survey.