Catalogue description Government Social Research Website

Please see information at Divisional level.

This series contains more than one link to the 'snapshots' of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation's presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

Government social research informs the development, implementation and evaluation of a wide range of government policies and plays a crucial role in evidence-based policy making.

The Government Social Research Service (GSR) exists to: provide government with objective, reliable, relevant and timely social research; support the development, implementation, review and evaluation of policy and delivery; and ensure policy debate is informed by the best research evidence and thinking from the social sciences. Members of the Government Social Research service are based in government departments and the Service is led by the Chief Government Social Scientist, who is supported by the Government Social Research Unit (GSRU). The team works in partnership with several cross-government committees of social researchers.

The content of the GSR pages on this website is managed by the Government Social Research Unit, based in HM Treasury.