Case Studies
See how our research helps clients understand complex challenges, demonstrate impact and make better decisions.
Client type
- Local authorities, Combined Authorities, LEPs and the LGA49
- Further and Higher Educational Institutions, Skills Bodies and Training Providers22
- The Private Sector including Property and Business Support Organisations12
- The Third Sector and Civil Society7
- Other Public Bodies Including Emergency Services and Health5
- EC and EU Bodies/Partnerships2
- Central Government and Government Agencies1
Service
Policy theme2
- Training, Employment, Skills & Labour Markets21
- Business Support, Enterprise & Productivity15
- Energy, Low Carbon & Climate Change13
- Visitor Economy & Culture, Leisure & Sport12
- R&D, Innovation & Technology12
- Place Making, Property & Transport12
- Sectors and Clusters8
- Health, Wellbeing and Inclusion7
- Inward Investment and Internationalisation3
- Agritech and Horticulture2
99. How Kada Shaped Rail Skills Strategy for Chesterfield Borough Council and Barrow Hill
The UK rail sector faces a growing skills crisis - an ageing workforce, rising retirement rates and critical shortages in engineering, signalling and technical roles. For Chesterfield, home to a significant cluster of rail firms, these pressures hit…
94. Developing a 10-year plan for the arable and horticultural sector
The UK Agri-Tech Centre serves as an enabling force within the UK’s agricultural innovation landscape, driving Agri-tech innovation and adoption through world-class facilities, expert knowledge and business support. The Centre aims to make the UK’s arable and horticulture…
82. Evaluation of ASSIST’s Refugee Family Housing Pilot
Kada Research were commissioned by the Sheffield-based refugee and asylum charity ASSIST to evaluate their housing pilot, which housed individuals who have been granted asylum in the UK. Kada were asked to evaluate stakeholder, landlord and tenant perceptions…
76. Evaluation of the Sheffield City Council’s Economic Recovery Fund Round One
In the Summer of 2022, Kada evaluated the first phase of Sheffield City Council’s (SCC) Economic Recovery Fund, a £2 million fund designed to support post Covid-19 high street recovery in the city’s district centres. To increase footfall…
68. What is the future for Agriculture, Horticulture and Agri Tech in Worcestershire?
For centuries the Vale of Evesham and Worcestershire has been regarded as the fruit and vegetable basket of England and has provided fertile soil that supports local entrepreneurial growing and agricultural communities many of whom now use the…
67. Getting Into Rail: Evaluating the University of Birmingham’s DIGI RAIL West Midlands Programme
Kada Research were commissioned by the University of Birmingham to evaluate the ERDF funded DIGI-RAIL West Midlands programme which has helped to diversify the rail industry supply chain and bring more digital technologies to the rail sector.
66. Evaluation of a community public safety service pilot in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire’s Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner commissioned Kada Research to evaluate North Yorkshire’s public safety service (PSS) pilot. The PSS provides generalist support to the community and targeted interventions preventing harm and risk, particularly to vulnerable residents…
47. Heanor’s Future High Streets Fund economic case development
We would like to express grateful thanks to you all, for your hard work and expertise throughout the process and ensuring that we compiled a robust application, providing us with the best possible business case to aim to…
38. Swift uptake of new high-quality units at new business park in Rotherham
This major 64,000 sq. ft development, at Forge Way in the Parkgate area of Rotherham, was built speculatively by local developer E V Waddington and offers 10 industrial and manufacturing units. Like many speculative industrial developments in South…
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