Most of the energy we use is to heat our homes, and this could be done more cheaply if households used highly efficient systems like heat pumps, rather than inefficient boilers. The disparity between ...

Test and learn is an iterative approach to public policy and service development. Conventional policymaking typically uses a step-by-step process called “waterfall” where most of the big choices are ...

Removing levies would make energy cheaper for everyone One option for reforming levies is to remove all the levies from electricity. This would make energy bills cheaper for every household in Britain ...

There are no policy recommendations in this report – Nesta’s new blueprint for halving obesity already makes it possible to identify the most effective policy interventions to pursue and at what scale ...

There is good evidence that loneliness causes worse mental health and wellbeing outcomes. The impact on mental health is potentially substantial, for example, people who report feeling lonely are 2.25 ...

Nesta has produced a comprehensive policy plan to decarbonise home heating that the new Government can use from day one. This is a credible and deliverable plan that draws extensively on all the work ...

We explored the impact that recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) might have on the future of citizen science. Rapid progress on large-language and multi-modal generative models in ...

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 ...

In order to calculate appropriate health targets, researchers first determined the healthiness of food sold across the UK's 11 leading supermarkets. They analysed 36 million transactions from 30,000 ...

The authors provide a detailed discussion of current state provisions for children under five – reflecting on the evidence of what has benefitted children from low-income backgrounds and what has not.

Heat pumps can be installed and work efficiently in less well insulated homes. It is often claimed that homes need to be well insulated to have a heat pump, but this is largely untrue. While better ...

The post-pandemic rises in absence rates are staggering. The sudden surge in overall and persistent absence has left schools and policymakers scrambling for causes and solutions. Finding ways to bring ...