Our research archive
Here you can find our out-of-date/older research and reports, kept public for the purpose of recordkeeping.
Early Years research archive
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Reading with children research report
Findings from a nationwide survey on the reading frequency of Mums and Dads.
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BookTrust Reading Habits Survey 2013
This report presents the results of an England - wide survey of the reading habits of 1...
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Family Reading Segments - Infographic
This guide breaks down the types of families that exist when it comes to engagement wit...
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Family Reading Segments
This guide breaks down the types of families that exist when it comes to engagement wit...
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Parental reading motivations and the impact of Bookstart
This report presents the findings from a nationwide survey with parents who have young ...
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Family reading habits and the impact of Bookstart
This report presents the findings from a nationwide survey with parents who have young ...
Primary research archive
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The Write Book Final Evaluation, March 2015
The Write Book project was run by Book Trust and funded by Arts Council England. It sup...
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Story Hunters: Pilot Evaluation Report 2016
Pilot Evaluation Report for Story Hunters 2016
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The Ant Club 2013-14 Evaluation report
This evaluation was conducted by Qa Research and consisted of a survey and in-depth cas...
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The Ant Club evaluation report 2012-13
The Institute of Education were commissioned to carry out this evaluation and found cle...
Secondary research archive
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Beyond Booked Up evaluation 2015-16
This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the Beyond Booked Up programme. T...
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Beyond Booked Up evaluation 2015-16: Executive Summary
A summarised report of an evaluation of the Beyond Booked Up programme 2015-16. The eva...
Other archived resources
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Superbox Evaluation 2016 - Welsh
In 2016 Booktrust Cymru worked in partnership with the School of Early Childhood at the...
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National Bookstart Week evaluation 2016
This report presents the findings from a survey with Bookstart coordinators and childre...
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Superbox Evaluation 2016 - English
A summary of the Superbox in Wales evaluation carried out by Booktrust Cymru, in partne...
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National Bookstart Week 2015 report
Findings from surveys with partners involved in delivering National Bookstart Week and ...
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Bookstart Baby evaluation 2014-15: survey of gifting partners
This report presents the findings of a survey of Bookstart baby gifting partners includ...
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Bookstart Treasure evaluation 2014-15: survey of gifting partners
This report presents the findings of a survey of Bookstart Treasure gifting partners in...
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Family reading habits and the impact of Bookstart: Executive Summary
The following executive summary synthesises the findings from two separate reports on f...
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Bookstart and Health: Strengthening Partnerships and Knowledge
'Strengthening Partnerships and Knowledge' leaflet, with executive summary of behaviour...
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BookTrust Stories Tour Evaluation - full report
Report from the University of Sheffield's School of Education following their evaluatio...
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BookTrust Stories Tour Evaluation - executive summary
Summarised report by the University of Sheffield's School of Education for the Book Tru...
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Bookstart Family Reading Activity Survey: Executive Summary (2010)
This executive summary presents the key findings of a study among 503 mothers, fathers ...
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Bookstart 2009/10 'A Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis'
This report presents the findings of SROI analysis conducted by Just Economics LLP. It ...
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Evaluation of Bookstart England: A Randomised Controlled Trial Evaluation of 'Bookstart Treasure Pack'
This report presents the results from a randomised controlled trial (RCT), conducted to...
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Sheffield Babies Love Books: An evaluation of the Sheffield Bookstart project
This report presents the findings of a small scale evaluation, comparing an interventio...
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Bookstart: A Sure Start with Books
This report presents the findings from a matched group comparison between KS1 SATs resu...
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Evaluation of Bookstart England: Review of resources
Findings from a systematic review of the Bookstart resources (2012 - Sheffield Hallam U...
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Bookstart National Impact Evaluation 2009
This report presents the findings of a Short duration longitudinal study of Bookstart f...
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Evaluation of Bookstart England: Survey of operational and strategic stakeholders
This report presents the findings from a mixed method evaluation of Bookstart England, ...
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Sainsbury's Bookstart Evaluation
The National Centre for Research in Children's Literature was contracted to assess the ...
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Appraisal of Bookstart in Sighthill
This evaluation was based on evidence collated through parent focus groups and intervie...
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Health benefits of reading and proven impacts of Bookstart Corner
Two-sided handout summarising research evidence for the health and wellbeing benefits o...
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The family experience of Bookstart Corner 2014-15
This report presents the findings of an in-depth qualitative evaluation of Bookstart Co...
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Evaluation of Bookstart England: Bookstart Corner: Executive Summary
Executive summary of a randomised pre and post-intervention self-completion survey with...
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An Evaluation of the Bookstart Corner Programme
This report presents the findings from a nationwide survey with 272 parents who took pa...
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Bookstart Corner 2013-14 online audit report
Findings from the audit completed by 850 children's centres that took part in Bookstart...
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Bookstart Corner online audit 2013 report
Summary of findings from the Bookstart Corner online audit (April to June 2013).
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Evaluation of Bookstart England: Bookstart Corner
This report presents the findings of a randomised pre and post-intervention self-comple...
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Bookstart Corner Programme Evaluation 2013/2014 Executive Summary
This report presents the findings of a randomised pre and post-intervention self-comple...
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Bookstart Corner evaluation: practitioners' report
This report presents the findings of in-depth interviews with 20 children's centre prac...
