Evidence briefings
Our evidence briefings highlight research findings and their relevance in key policy areas. The views expressed in the evidence briefings are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the ESRC. All our briefings are available in PDF format below.
We have produced two new briefings focusing on education:
Economy and business
- Boosting manufacturing and rebuilding supply chains
- Longitudinal studies: Employment and the labour market (PDF)
- Foreign ownership and consequences for British business (PDF)
- Housing market effects on the economy (PDF)
- Planning causes supermarket productivity loss (PDF)
- Rebalancing Britain's public finances (PDF)
- The effect of the credit crisis on UK SME finance (PDF)
Innovation and skills
- Improving management skills key to higher productivity
- Providing funding for innovative SMEs (PDF)
- Hi-tech start-ups and innovation myths (PDF)
- Delivering an efficient skills policy (PDF)
- Using clusters and collective learning for innovation (PDF)
- Delivering low-carbon energy in developing countries (PDF)
- Identifying innovation in the UK (PDF)
- Stimulating UK‐China collaboration on innovation (PDF)
Social mobility
- Education vital for social mobility (PDF)
- Health inequalities continue to undermine social mobility (PDF)
- Parenting style influences child development and social mobility (PDF)
- Child poverty casts a long shadow over social mobility (PDF)
- Employment key to social mobility (PDF)
- Children's education crucial for social mobility (PDF)
- Local development: for people, not places (PDF)
- Longitudinal studies: Child development and social mobility (PDF)