Projects we have funded

A 10-month project to determine if there is an issue with regard to financial stability among military families. Should the research determine there is an issue, and that this issue is in part driven by characteristics intrinsic to service, the project will secondly examine potential interventions and recommendations to address this problem.

An additional grant awarded to support the delivery of the recommendations of the orginal project.

Qualitative research exploring public perceptions of the Armed Forces and veterans. This project forms the qualitative half of a larger project with MOD who funded the quantitative perceptions survey.

This year-long project was the first phase of a two-phase project. The first stage focused on assessing how engagement with, and by, families works, and where it could be improved. The findings from this first phase will include recommendations for a pilot project. The proposed pilot study would be the second phase.

A 3-year project to extend and develop the Armed Forces Charities project, including a fully redeveloped website (www.armedforcescharities.org), 6 themed reports, and an updated edition of the “Sector Insight” report.

VFR Hub provides an online knowledge repository of military, veterans and families research, resources and literature, which is free at point of access, and enables users to search for research, researchers, institutions, communities of interest, collaborative opportunities, and raise queries/write posts.

Sanctions, Support & Service Leavers. A two-year project, working in partnership with the University of York, to examine the impact of the benefits system on veterans and their families.

A 15-month study linking King’s College of Mental Health Research data with Department of Work and Pensions records of benefit claims and work programmes to assess the pattern of welfare benefits among UK veterans and examine associations between pre-, in- and post-Service factors, veteran unemployment, and disability benefit claims, as well as the effects of work-related training courses.

This work has been commissioned by FiMT to consider how the recommendations made in the 2013 Transition Mapping Study have been implemented, with a particular focus on employment and the transferability of skills and qualifications.