Our research programme is designed to:
We ask children, young people and other stakeholders about literacy using large-scale national surveys.
We explore literacy issues using multiple approaches to further our understanding on a commission basis.
Our evidence-based approach means we comprehensively explore the impact of our programmes.
Commission us to help you understand your impact.
Our annual survey of primary and secondary pupils covers reading and writing, and takes place in January/February.
This new survey explores reading and writing enjoyment, attitudes and behaviours of children aged 5 to 8 in a child-friendly way.
We are launching a new survey to find out how teachers in the UK are using technology to support literacy in the classroom.
We offer our research expertise to give you comprehensive insight into your literacy programme or product’s impact on a range of audiences. We have specialist knowledge of engaging with children and young people and a track record of working in schools and other settings.
Contact us if you are interested in commissioning us to undertake an evaluation for you.
In this report, we discuss school libraries from the point of view of children and young people. It explores how many children use the school library, why...
We surveyed 44,097 children aged 8-18 to look into the link between book ownership, literacy engagement and mental wellbeing.
To celebrate Blue Peter's 60th birthday, we explored children and young people’s letter writing in 2017/18. We looked at how many children and young...
To support National Poetry Day on 4 October 2018, we were commissioned to conduct the first ever national survey of children and young people’s...
This report explores the link between children and young people’s mental wellbeing and their reading and writing enjoyment, attitudes and...
The NewsWise programme was developed as a collaborative partnership between Google, The Guardian Foundation, the National Literacy Trust and the PSHE...
This report evaluates the impact of Mrs Wordsmith, an illustrated, data-driven vocabulary programme for children aged 6-13.
The 2017 evaluation of our Books Unlocked programme, which promotes reading for pleasure in prisons, supported by the Man Booker Prize Foundation.
The survey looked at the reading habits of over 4,000 primary school children in 2018