Decarbonising home heating is a key priority in the UK’s strategy to cut emissions, and heat pumps are expected to play a pivotal role. The UK government and the Climate Change Committee have both ...

In this project, we partnered with the energy supplier Utilita to explore smart prepayment meter customers’ experience of participating in their version of the DFS called Power Payback. This will ...

When focusing on creating lasting social change, capturing learning and understanding impact is critical to enable us to prioritise what we do and account for progress we make towards our goals. At ...

Beautiful, easy data visualization and storytelling[1] A nutrient profile score is a holistic measure of health that assigns a score to food products based on their nutritional content (energy, sugar, ...

What we found Understanding of the term ‘green jobs’ was low across both genders, with women having lower understanding than men. Thus, to improve awareness and understanding of green jobs, it may be ...

The Get A Heat Pump website 12 provides further clarification, resources and guidance to help homeowners make well-informed decisions about the future of their home heating. This information does not ...

Entrepreneurs and early adopters can get sustainability transitions started, but reaching all parts of society is likely to need government support. Indoor sanitation started to become common in ...

How a green ratio of 2.5 to 1 would make a heat pump cheaper than a gas boiler over the same lifespan The chart below takes an example home and demonstrates how the running cost of a heat pump ...

At this very early stage in the responses to the pandemic, four narratives are taking shape, pointing us to quite different futures. These scenarios combine elements of continuity and discontinuity, ...

A new batch of Census 2021 data on housing has just been released, giving us a chance to see how homes across England and Wales are heated. Beyond being able to see whether homes have central heating ...

Data Poverty in Scotland and WalesWe heard of many people who were struggling to get online, but we found a lack of detailed information to quantify the scale and depth of data poverty. This report ...

Understanding the relative impacts of different forms of early disadvantage on child outcomes can help tailor support systems to better address each child's needs. We used data from the Study of Early ...