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Dr. Richard Dorsett

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Research interests: 

Richard's research interests include programme evaluation, labour market transitions, education, and well-being

Additional information: 

For full a copy of Richard’s CV, please click here

Current projects (11/11/2015):

Improving Working Memory. Randomised control trial of an intervention to improve working memory as a means of increasing attainment of low-achieving primary school children (EEF)

Mathematical Reasoning. Randomised control trial of an intervention to enhance understanding of the mathematics fundamentals in order to increase attainment in maths among primary school children (EEF)

Growing Learners. Randomised control trial of “mindset”; an approach that encourages pupils to not be limited by what they perceive as innate inabilities but instead to become resilient learners (EEF)

Programme of research into adult English and Maths.  Randomised control trial of the relative effectiveness of blended learning and face-to-face tuition on skills as measured in administered tests; large-scale longitudinal survey of learners.   (BIS) .

Evaluation of HMP Peterborough Social Impact Bond.  Propensity score matching evaluation of Peterborough Prison's "One Service", as a means of determining payment of the world's first Social Impact Bond (MoJ).

The impact of the Work Programme on young people.  Regression discontinuity estimator of the effect of Work Programme back to work services on employment as observed in DWP/HMRC administrative data (DWP).

Relative effectiveness of Work Programme providers.  Exploiting the randomisation of Work Programme participants to local providers in order to assess the delivery factors driving performance, using DWP administrative and survey data (DWP).

Evaluation of Traineeships.  Instrumental variable and matching estimators to estimate the impact of Traineeships on young people's learning and employment outcomes, using administrative data from DWP/HMRC and BIS (BIS).

Intergenerational factors in the life chances and wellbeing of young people.  Examination of variations in well-being across migrant generation and ethnic group, using Understanding Society; instrumental variables estimates of the effect of parental education on child's attainment, using the NCDS and BCS. (ESRC, part of LLAKES centre).

 

Publications by Dr Richard Dorsett

URLEY (Using Research Tools to Improve Language in the... Stokes, L, Runge, J, Dorsett, R
Estimating the impact of Traineeships Stokes, L, Speckesser, S, Dorsett, R
Mathematical reasoning Stokes, L, Hudson-Sharp, N, Rolfe, H, Dorsett, R
Quantitative programme of research for adult English and... Dorsett, R, Stokes, L, Weale, M
The relative effectiveness of blended versus face-to-face... Dorsett, R, Stokes, L
Quantitative programme of research for adult English and... Dorsett, R, Stokes, L, Weale, M
Work Programme: factors associated with differences in the... Dorsett, R
What young English people do once they reach school-leaving... Dorsett, R
Intergenerational and Inter-Ethnic Well-Being: An Analysis... Dorsett, R, Rienzo, C, Weale, M
The School-to-Work Transtion: An Overview of Two Recent... Dorsett, R
Young people's labour market transitions: the role of... Dorsett, R
Human well-being and in-work benefits: a randomized... Dorsett, R
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Blog posts by Dr Richard Dorsett

Experience counts: smoothing the school to work transition
Dorsett, R's picture 04 Feb 2015, Dorsett, R
Helping the long-term unemployed
Dorsett, R's picture 24 Sep 2013, Dorsett, R

Projects

Embedding Formative Assessment
Encouraging the unemployed into sustained work: experimental evidence from the UK and the US
Evaluation of URLEY (Using Research Tools to Improve Language in the Early Years)
Exploring variations in the effectiveness of Work Programme providers
Supervision of Designated Safeguarding Leads in primary schools
The evaluation of traineeships
The Work Programme

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