If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

Alcohol related behaviours: Exploratory research

This research assesses the role that alcohol plays in the lives of those who routinely consume higher amounts of alcohol than recommended by the Government’s ‘safe drinking’ guidelines.

It seeks to understand the underlying motivators and values that lie behind binge drinking, and to identify whether it is possible, and how, to:

Alcohol in the workplace: Exploratory research

To identify the level of need and support required by local business to address alcohol misuse in the work place. (This was cited as ‘one of the aims’ of the research. However, no others were specified.)

Reducing excessive drinking among females: Exploratory research

In support of the overall project objective (see ‘Background’ above) the specific research objectives were to:

End-of-life care: Qualitative research

The overall aim of the research was to: Help the NCL EoLC CCI achieve its aims by informing the development of a specifically targeted social marketing campaign to encourage healthcare professionals to make their own EoLC plans, with the ultimate aim of improving EoLC conversations with patients and service users.

Teenage pregnancy and the workforce: Qualitative research

The overall aim of the research was to understand the workforce’s perceptions of issues faced by young people as well as current approaches to sex education and issues surrounding teenage pregnancy. More specifically: 1. To understand what the workforce see as the problems, issues and norms surrounding teenage pregnancy; 2. To explore what the workforce believe is their role and contribution to the solution of teenage pregnancy and promotion of sexual health; 3. To understand what resources and solutions can most effectively meet workers’ needs throughout the network.

Aspirations of children in care: Qualitative research

• To explore young people in care’s aspirations for the future and the support they receive to realise these aspirations • To understand foster carers’ thoughts about supporting their foster children’s aspirations

Access to maternity services: Qualitative research

Formative stage • Conducted with 10 x women in long cooking-based session in children’s centre • Mix of discussion and practical in order to evaluate concept properly Pilot • Implementation targeting “group rejectors” • Launch area predom. S.

Child internet safety campaign: Evaluation research

GFK was commissioned by COI and DCSF to assess the effectiveness of the new ‘Click clever, click safe’ campaign amongst both parents and children.

Encouraging parental engagement with their children: Campaign research

The main aim of this research was to evaluate the creative routes against the campaign objectives and to provide recommendations for longer-term developments of the interventions, should further versions be produced in 2010/2011.

Safer Schools Partnership: Understanding the current perception of police involvement in schools and how to make it more positive

The specific research objectives were to provide an understanding of parents’ and young people’s spontaneous reactions and feelings about police presence in schools: • Ascertain what is it they know about police in schools and where/how they get their information • Test a range of messages about SSPs and explored reactions to the messages • Listen out for how parents and children spoke about the topic, including the language and tone they use, helping to understand how to position relevant messages • Explore parents’ and young people’s perceptions of SSPs, once they were given more informat