Evidence. Research.
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Identity in Occupational Transition

Evidence, Research and Future Directions for UK Policy

Author

Gemma Gardner

Publication

Parliamentary Evidence Review

Version

1.0

Year

2026

Status

Published

Evidence control

AURIS Master Evidence Repository v1.5

Claim control

Master Claim Register, 60 controlled claims

• Supporting paper

  Why AURIS Exists

  The Evidence for Identity-Focused Support After the Uniform

  Transition support for military, police, fire, ambulance and NHS clinical personnel is well developed on housing, finance and employment, but less consistently addresses identity disruption. This paper sets out the evidence base for the Identity After the Uniform programme, structured around a framing question and four supporting research questions, tested through a target of 108 coded qualitative interviews, of which 34 are coded at the time of writing. It presents a case study of Trafford Veterans CIC, alongside a structured review of 24 monthly newsletters from November 2016 to October 2018 and a 2020 organisational year-in-review, cross-referenced against mechanisms subsequently identified in AURIS's coded interview data. Limitations, including the partial state of both the newsletter archive and the coded interview correlation, are stated throughout.

  Gemma Gardner · 2026 · Vol 5, v1

  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22306697

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• Supporting paper

  Where Identity Work Belongs

  Positioning Identity-Focused Coaching Within the Continuum of Crisis, Recovery and Transition

  Support for uniformed and public-service leavers is organised around two poles: crisis and clinical intervention at one end, practical resettlement such as employment, housing and finance at the other. This paper argues that the space between them has no settled answer. It asks where identity-focused, non-clinical coaching belongs once a person is safe and stable but has not yet rebuilt a sense of who they are without the role that defined them. It matters because that gap decides who is offered help, and when.

  Gemma Gardner · 2026 · v1

  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22055682

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• Supporting paper

  The Science of Sustainable Human Change

  An Integrated Identity Performance Psychology Model for Behavioural Stability, Self-Trust and Long-Term Transformation

  This paper addresses a stated limitation in behavioural science: change mechanisms are fragmented across motivation, habits, mindset and therapeutic insight, and each alone often fails to hold up in real conditions. It sets out the AURIS Change Engine, a sequencing model that turns insight into behavioural evidence, evidence into self-trust and self-trust into identity stability, supported by a multi-domain measurement model and an applied case study of identity disruption during service transition. It is presented as an applied, non-clinical framework.

  Gemma Gardner · 2026 · v1

  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19918563

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• Supporting paper

  Identity Performance Psychology: White Paper Vol. 2

  How Identity, Regulation, Behaviour and Meaning Drive Sustainable Human Performance

  This is the paper that introduces Identity Performance Psychology as an emerging category, and the AURIS Framework of Awareness, Understanding, Regulation, Identity and Stability as its working method. It asks why many modern solutions underperform and why change so often fails, drawing on behavioural science, psychology, Stoic philosophy, leadership theory and applied coaching. It is the conceptual foundation the rest of the AURIS programme builds on, and it is described by the author as evidence-informed rather than settled.

  Gemma Gardner · 2026 · v2.0

  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19818259

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• Supporting paper

  Behavioural Change Through Structured Awareness

  An Applied Study of the AURIS Identity System

  The first applied study of the AURIS Identity System. A controlled cohort worked over six weeks with daily behavioural tracking and weekly coaching, testing whether structured awareness can improve response regulation and behavioural consistency in ordinary conditions rather than in a laboratory. The paper reports improvements in awareness, response control, consistency and early identity alignment, and is explicit that as a single cohort study the results are indicative only and need wider validation.

  Gemma Gardner · 2026 · v1.0

  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19495442

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