Research and innovation
Learning and innovation are at the heart of BookTrust’s work
View all of our research
From national surveys to understand reading behaviours in families to our co-creation approach to designing interventions that work for families we are committed to an evidence-based approach.
With our new strategy we are building on our already extensive body of research. We will be investing in new research on the benefits of reading, of the importance of representation in children’s literature and in deep co-design work to identify how we best support children from vulnerable family backgrounds to enjoy the broad benefits of reading.
The benefits of reading
From babies to children in their early years and all the way through to early teens, reading brings profound and wide-ranging benefits that can have a lifelong positive impact on children’s lives.
Children's reading habits in the early years
Research shows that reading in the early years brings profound and wide-ranging benefits to children that can have a lifelong positive impact.
Supporting generational cycles of readers
Our recent research highlights the extent of the influence that parental reading enjoyment has on nurturing generational reading habits.
The role of multiple ‘influencers’ in children's reading jou
Our research shows that children are more likely to become independent readers when they experience reading with and are inspired by multiple people or ‘reading influencers’ from the earliest moments in childhood.
