Transition from education to employment
Funds UK research on interventions that ease young people's move from school to work.
Three things sit outside this topic's scope: work carried out only in clinical settings, projects that measure education or employment results in isolation without connecting them to health, and interventions that leave the underlying social or structural drivers of health untouched. Both a flow diagram and a logic model setting out the intervention's theory of change are mandatory uploads at outl…
The PHR Programme wants research into the health and health-inequality impacts of interventions supporting young people's transition from compulsory education into further education or employment. Priority is given to understanding how disrupted pathways affect low-income families, racialised communities, care-experienced young people, disabled young people, those with special educational needs, and young women, who face additional structural barriers. The call responds to a 2026 government review into rising youth inactivity.
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