Topic: Policy issues

The impact of furlough on wellbeing: positive and negative effects of the UK’s Job Retention Scheme
The COVID-19 furlough scheme has supported many people’s wellbeing in a number of positive ways – but there have also ...

‘The Great Summer Reset’: An IPPO policy note on how best to support children’s emotional recovery
Building on our two roundtable discussions on how the wellbeing of schoolchildren has been affected by COVID-19, this policy note ...

How do you know what decision-makers want, and give them what they need, during the pandemic? IPPO’s learning journey
What does it really mean to be 'demand-led'? IPPO’s Principal Investigator, Joanna Chataway, explores the realities – and challenges – ...

Watch this IPPO-Conversation webinar on how to tackle the long-term social impacts of COVID-19
IPPO's Geoff Mulgan joins the British Academy's Hetan Shah, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Jo Adetunji from The Conversation to discuss ...

For the ‘COVID decade’ ahead, the UK’s intersecting inequalities demand interconnected solutions
A hallmark of the pandemic has been the exacerbation of inequalities. The British Academy’s review of COVID-19’s long-term societal impacts ...

Welcome to the IPPO Living Map: a systematic way of keeping track of social science research on COVID-19
The IPPO Living Map has been created to help policymakers make sense of all the research that is amassing on ...

A year of tracking COVID-19 policies in 186 countries: what are the key lessons for governments?
IPPO partner the Blavatnik School of Government’s COVID-19 Tracker is the largest repository of global evidence relating to pandemic policies ...

The dilemma of opening up: a rapid call for evidence on the issue of vaccine passports and unequal freedoms
Over the next few months, every country will face a common and tricky challenge: how do you open up in ...