Standards for England commissions and undertakes research that supports the organisational goal of promoting ethical environments. Broad research topics are identifying components of ethical environments, assessing the impact of standards frameworks, and assessing our performance. We aim to ensure that the findings generated from research add to the knowledge and debate on ethics, and research has maximum impact on policy and practice.
The research team is located within the Standards Directorate and is made up of four research posts: a knowledge building manager, a research and projects adviser, a research adviser and a research assistant.
We publish the results of our projects by the date that they were completed.
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