About Partners

The Social Research Unit has a rich history of collaboration, with central and local government agencies, centres of academic excellence and international philanthropy.

At the independent scientific review of the Unit’s work in 2007, it was recommended that academic partnerships are strengthened with a view to building expertise to study the impact of context on children’s development and the conditions that lead to the effective implementation of evidence based policies and programmes. It was also proposed that the Unit find a partnership to build on its doctoral training programme, and to better support post-docs. A series of new collaborations are being explored in response to the findings of the review.