Specialists in the design, delivery and dissemination of high quality applied social research.
Specialists in the design, delivery and dissemination of high quality applied social research.
BPSR is an independent research partnership specialising in the design, delivery and dissemination of high quality applied social research, with a particular specialism in policy evaluation.
Caroline Bryson, a social science researcher, and Susan Purdon, a social science statistician, have worked at the most senior levels on some of the UK’s largest social surveys and evaluations, each with 20 years of experience in social research.
BPSR is part of a consortium led by TNS BMRB who has been commissioned by the Department for Education to evaluate a trial of relationship support for first time parents. Providing subsidised short on-line courses and face-to-face sessions in five areas across England, the Department is testing whether this provision can help to normalise and de-stigmatise the take-up of relationship support. Surveys among first time expectant parents and parents with young children in the trial areas and a set of matched comparison areas will measure the impact of the trial on parental attitudes and propensity to take up support. In addition, the evaluation involves a survey of parents participating in the courses or sessions, qualitative interviews and an economic evaluation. BPSR is working on the design and analysis of the impact study and surveys of parents. The consortium also includes One Plus One, Professor Janet Reibstein and London Economics.
Project timescale: June 2012 to June 2014
BPSR is part of a consortium led by CEDAR, University of Warwick evaluating the CANparent initiative. The CANparent initiative, funded by the Department for Education, is offering free parenting classes to all parents of children aged 0 to 5 in three areas of England. The initiative is testing whether the free provision of parenting classes in the three areas will provide sufficient incentive to providers to start offering additional universal classes nationally, and whether it will normalise the take-up of the parenting classes. The evaluation is multi-mode involving a number of qualitative and quantitative strands, including an economic evaluation (led by London Economics). BPSR is working on the design and analysis of a survey measuring the impact on the parent population, alongside TNS BMRB.
Project timescale: April 2012 to April 2014