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Welcome to the The Knowledge Exchange
For the past 40 years, we've been the first port of call for knowledge on public and social policy and practice.
How we help our members
Our support for frontline staff, senior managers and policymakers draws on wide-ranging policy theme expertise and provides timely insight.
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Our team of researchers can help with literature searches and information queries online, over the phone or by email.
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We provide insight into the trends, policies and behaviours that shape the public sector. Our work is independent, robust and shaped by what our members need to know.
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- 2026 unspent developer contributions
- Housed but not homed: addressing the critical impact of furniture poverty and poor home conditions
- The hidden cost of low pay in the social care sector
- Turnaround programme: independent process and implementation evaluation - final report
- Barriers to opportunity: Understanding Society insights
- Channelling motivation: how intrinsic and internalised motivation can support new pathways for young people from low-income backgrounds to thrive in a rapidly changing world of work
- Nature-focused community-led climate action: what impacts can it make and how can we measure them?
- Adoption, incidence and welfare impacts of interest-free loans: evidence from solar PV
- From lunch breaks to late nights: a qualitative study of how workplaces can support healthy diet, physical activity and sleep behaviours in young adults, IN BMC Public Health Vol 25 No 4262 Dec 2025, pp2-11
- Advancing virtual and hybrid team well-being through a job demand-resources lens, IN International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, Vol 20 No 1 2025, pp1-16
- Options for changing Plan 2 student loans: costs, benefits and distributional effects
- What does it take to end homelessness? Tweaking or transforming systems, IN Housing Studies, Vol 41 No 3 2026, pp697-715
- The benefits of youth? Young people, supported housing, affordability, and employment: learning from the WMCA Rent Simplification Proof of Concept
- Looking at a blind spot: using a longitudinal population cohort study to examine inequalities in child social worker contact among mothers experiencing domestic abuse in Scotland, IN Child and Family Social Work, Jan 2026 (advance article), pp1-15
- Hopeful futures: lessons on involving the public in decisions around climate adaptation (three London councils)
- Supporting the creative industries through the AI turn: a comparative analysis of Scottish policy and the needs of Scotland’s creative practitioners, IN PloSOne, Vol 21 No 2 2026 e0340255, pp1-18
- The Rise report of female entrepreneurship
- Delivery that matters: the state of the state 2026
- Community hubs: making wellbeing accessible and local
- Ideas to impact: Scottish spinouts report - strengths, ambition and progress report