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Browse through the John Smith Centre’s publications, including our Trilogy on Trust reports which look at young people and trust, women and trust and low income and trust.
The Age Gap
The Gender Gap
The Income Gap
How can we build trust in politics and public institutions?
Read our research note in partnership with IPPR.
The Academic Understanding of Public Service
This report outlines the first stage literature review for the interdisciplinary project “The Public Understanding of Public Service”.
The Concept of Public Service
This briefing breaks the concept of 'public service' into its component parts and discusses how public service has been treated - explicitly and implicitly - in the academic and practitioner literature.
The Public Understanding of Public Service
This report presents findings from a survey of British adults on their attitudes to public service, providing an initial overview of the public understanding of public service.