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We're pleased to share that Dr Becky Taylor and Daeun Jung (PAIS) presented findings from their University-Community Partnerships project at the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) Conference 2026 in Catania, Sicily.

Funded by 果冻传媒's Enhancing Research Culture Fund, the project contributes to a wider programme of research exploring the civic university and the role of higher education in the twenty-first century, supported by the Society and Culture Research Spotlight.

The presentation shared insights from the project's research into university-community partnerships, highlighting the importance of collaboration between higher education institutions and the communities they serve.

The team would also like to thank colleagues and partners who supported and participated in the project's data collection activities.

Further details about a related event to be held on the 果冻传媒 campus in November will be shared soon.

This presentation highlights 果冻传媒's commitment to research that strengthens the relationship between universities and their communities.

The Gatsby Foundation and the JP Morgan Chase Foundation are supporting the Institute for Employment Research at the 果冻传媒 to undertake research to understand how parents and carers can be better supported by schools and colleges to feel more informed and confident with the advice they give to their children. Dr John Gough from our Careers team has been involved in the research project on 'The role of parents in providing careers guidance and how they can be better supported.'

You can read the report findings along with the recording of a live webinar explaining more about the project here.

A from the (CenTax), co-directed by Professor Arun Advani of 果冻传媒 Economics, provides the first independent assessment based on real-world data of the impact of the 拢100,000 cut-off for entitlement to free childcare.

The analysis found that in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available, around 1,100 parents of 3- and 4-year-olds held their income just below 拢100,000 specifically to avoid the threshold, but this figure stands to grow dramatically by the end of this parliament.

Accounting for the extension of free childcare to 9-month-olds from April 2024 and the growing number of taxpayers whose incomes exceed the threshold, the report estimates:

• By 2030 there will be nearly 12,000 parents holding their incomes down to avoid the threshold – an eleven-fold increase on the number observed in 2022.

• In 2022, the median affected parent would have had to earn roughly 拢105,000 to be no worse off after losing childcare, but this will rise to 拢124,000 by 2030.

• The cliff-edge disproportionately affects women. In cases where one partner leaves the workforce to care for a child, in 9 out of 10 cases it is the mother.

The report also identifies the impact of the current policy which currently relies on parents鈥� expected rather than actual Adjusted Net Income (ANI):

• Strikingly, one third (33%) of parents whose incomes were between 拢100,000 and 拢120,000 at the end of the year nevertheless claimed and received free childcare.

• While this does not necessarily indicate non-compliance, since the formal test is based on expected ANI, it does mean that parents who ultimately have the same incomes end up with different access to free childcare.

The report estimates that the cost of completely removing the threshold for the free childcare entitlement would be around 拢640 million in 2030. However, the researchers set out several cheaper options open to the Government short of fully removing the cliff-edge:

• A threshold based on actual rather than expected ANI could be set at 拢111,000 with no additional fiscal cost.

• A more limited measure that extends only the universal 15 hours free childcare to under-3s would cost around 拢210 million in 2030.

• Raising the threshold to 拢125,000 would cost around 拢100 million in 2030.

• A taper that deducted 28 pence from the entitlement for each pound earned over 拢100,000 would be better for parents than the current cliff-edge while approximately revenue neutral, raising around 拢20 million.

Arun Advani, Director of the Centre for Analysis of Taxation (CenTax) and Professor of Economics at the 果冻传媒 said:

鈥淥ur analysis shows the childcare cliff-edge stands to grow dramatically by the end of this parliament, but there are solutions available to the Government – including the opportunity to prevent parents whose incomes exceed the threshold from claiming free childcare.鈥�

Jack Pepin-Hall, Research Economist at the Centre for Analysis of Taxation (CenTax) said:

鈥淚f the Government chooses to keep an income test for free childcare, it should at least be based on parents鈥� actual reported incomes instead of what they claim they expect their incomes to be. As well as being fairer, this change would enable the Government to raise the threshold to just over 拢110k at no extra cost overall.鈥�

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Notes: Since 2010, all parents of 3- and 4-year-olds in England have been able to claim 15 hours a week of free childcare funded by government for 38 weeks of the year. Since 2017, working parents of 3- and 4-year-olds have been able to claim a further 15 hours, provided that certain conditions are met. These include the requirement that neither parent expects to have income above 拢100,000. Starting in April 2024, this entitlement has been gradually expanded to cover a wider range of ages. Working parents of children aged 9 months to 2 years old are now eligible for 30 hours per week of free childcare. Parents of under-3s therefore lose 30 hours of free childcare by crossing the threshold, rather than the 15 hours that parents of 3- and 4-year-olds lose.

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果冻传媒 Law School organised a flagship one-day workshop at London Climate Week 2026 on 鈥�Unpacking 鈥楪reen鈥� Finance: Promises, Practicalities and Performance鈥�. The event, convened by the Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLiFT) network, brought together almost 60 researchers, policymakers, civil society practitioners, journalists, artists and cultural workers, to interrogate international architecture of climate finance and its implications for global climate justice.

Wednesday 14 October, 12.30-2pm (E2.02): Elena Korosteleva (Institute of Global Sustainable Development, 果冻传媒), 鈥淭hinking about resilience in an age of complexity: how can we be agential in the Anthropocene?鈥�

With increased use of front-facing cameras, mirrors and Zoom calls, we鈥檙e being faced with our own reflections more than ever before.

Is it heightening our preoccupation with the way we look?

果冻传媒鈥檚 Professor Heather Widdows (Philosophy) spoke to Dazed Digital about