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Social media is increasingly being used to advertise, organise, and facilitate gambling – and in many cases, unregulated gambling. Unregulated gambling refers to gambling products offered without a license from the Gambling Commission, the regulatory body of gambling in Great Britain. On social media, this includes lotteries and prize draws…
In January 2023, one in every seven NHS inpatient hospital beds was occupied by patients medically fit for discharge.¹ Delays in discharging patients not only impacts the availability of hospital beds for admitting new patients to the hospital, but patients whose discharge is delayed are also at higher risk of…
Our social capital - the quality of our relationships - shapes critical life outcomes, from the jobs we get to whether we end up in prison. Yet historically, policymakers have often overlooked social capital, mainly due to difficulties in measuring it and a lack of evidence-based solutions to boost it.…
In most parts of the US, entering a store empty handed and leaving with purchases tucked inside a plastic bag is the norm. As a result, the country uses 100 billion single-use plastic bags every year, contributing to millions of tons of CO2 emissions. The Center for the Circular Economy…
Liquid paracetamol is used for pain relief by most parents and caregivers for tamariki (children). Despite how commonly paracetamol is given to children, parents and caregivers can often forget about the possibility of paracetamol overdose if it isn’t administered carefully. In fact, in Aotearoa New Zealand, overdoses of paracetamol are…
How simple design tweaks on product sheets in Thailand improved loan literacy.
Our latest research on smoking and vaping highlights the need for public health interventions to address misconceptions and respond to people's reasons for quitting.
We ran a large-scale UK-wide survey and found that: 1) A large majority of the public support access to workplace adaptations for people experiencing menopause symptoms and 2) people, particularly women, underestimate the levels of public support for these policies.
Our new report, which assesses evidence from a fresh survey of British consumers with expert insights across climate, energy, and communications, past Net Zero projects, and real-world case studies, identifies 10 critical functions of communications, all of which we believe to be necessary to address barriers to pro-environmental action.
Our Revealing Social Capital project funded by the Nuffield Foundation, explores how social connections influence people's life outcomes, with a focus on social mobility. As part of our ongoing research, we're publishing, in collaboration with Stripe Partners, a series of regional social mobility statistics for England.
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