Our Global Centres of Excellence

Meeting public policy challenges on energy transition, climate change, environmental goals, sustainability and net-zero. 

Our work includes changing behaviours to conserve water, increasing take-up of smart meters for electricity and gas, and understanding customer choices for sustainable products. 

Addressing critical issues relating to crime, justice and safety policy including safer streets, improvements to the justice system, and violence against women and girls (VAWG). 

Our work includes transforming the Crime Survey in England and Wales, tackling online harm and evaluating the impact of programmes to create safer streets. 

Solving critical infrastructure policy challenges across areas including transport, urban transformation and utilities. 

Projects include driving behaviour change in public transport use, raising public support for infrastructure projects and addressing barriers to investment in infrastructure. 

Working across the election cycle including opinion analysis, policy issue analysis and voter turnout. 

Verian forecasted the world’s largest transnational elections, providing seat projections for the European Parliament in 2019 and 2024. 

Tackling issues related to gender equality such as harmful masculinities and gender-based violence.  

Our work includes changing social norms to prevent gender-based violence, supporting men on their journeys of change to break the cycles of violence and assessing sexual discrimination in the workplace. 

We also provide data through The Reykjavík Index for Leadership, which has measured perceptions of gender equality in the G7 since 2018. 

Meeting challenges related to education, employment and skills training, tourism, and economic development and trade. 

Examples include measuring essential skills for adults to participate in society and for economies to thrive, gathering evidence on use of AI in education, and driving growth in inbound international tourism. 

Strengthening International Development programmes through monitoring, evaluation and learning to achieve greater outcomes in some of the world's most critical challenges.

Our work spans programmes such as global health, education and agriculture. 

Powering decisions around public health such as disease management, mental health and healthcare access.

Examples of our work include informing and implementing programmes to improve vaccination rates, understanding the prevalence of lived experience of eating disorders and body image concerns, measuring child wellbeing, and understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on young people. 

Engaging with seldom heard audiences is fundamental to ensuring the whole public is at the centre of public policy making. 

Verian is a leader in amplifying the voices of those that are at highest risk of being overlooked through inclusive research that minimises participation barriers. 

Helping clients to understand and prepare for the impact of emerging technology on society including misinformation and disinformation, online harm and trust in institutions. 

Work includes addressing the threat of potentially harmful online video content, understanding how people communicate online and testing interventions to reduce engagement with online scams.