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Identity in Occupational Transition
Evidence, Research and Future Directions for UK Policy
Support after service is usually measured by jobs, study, housing and health. This review asks a further question: should we also look at identity?
It draws on work from several fields, including how people change, how services are put in place, and what people say about their own lives.
The report does not claim this is settled. It asks for more research, careful testing and an open policy debate.
- Author
- Gemma Gardner
- Publication
- Parliamentary Evidence Review
- Version
- 2.0 Master
- Published
- July 2026
- Status
- Published
- Evidence control
- AURIS Master Evidence Repository v2.9
- Claim control
- Master Claim Register, 60 controlled claims
Identity in Occupational Transition: Parliamentary Evidence Review (v2.0 Master)
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Citation, Gardner, G. (2026). Identity in Occupational Transition: Evidence, Research and Future Directions for UK Policy (v2.0 Master, full report and appendices). AURIS Identity System™.
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- Supporting paper
Identity After the Uniform: What the Evidence Tells Me, Where the Gaps Are, and What I'm Doing Next
The wider evidence base, findings from 42 of a planned 108 coded interviews at publication (21 September 2026), the current evidence strength of the AURIS framework, and the gaps still open in this work.
Read onlineGemma Gardner · 21 September 2026
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22870293
- Supporting paper
Why AURIS Exists: The Evidence for Identity-Focused Support After the Uniform
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.
Read onlineDownload the PDFGemma Gardner · 4 September 2026 · v1
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22306697
- Supporting paper
Identity in Occupational Transition: Evidence, Research and Future Directions for UK Policy
The July 2026 Parliamentary Evidence Review and Research Briefing, version 2.0. This is a historical policy review, with the evidence and limitations recorded at publication.
Read onlineDownload the PDFGemma Gardner · July 2026 · 2.0
- Supporting paper
State of the Evidence
A draft audit of the AURIS evidence base: what is verified, what is not, and where the gaps sit.
Read online - Supporting paper
Identity in Global Transition Policy
A review of transition policy across five countries and NATO, an alliance rather than a sixth country.
Read onlineDownload the PDFGemma Gardner · 2026-08-12
- Supporting paper
From Transition to Service Provider Identity Adaptation
Repositioning transition as an ongoing process of identity adaptation.
Read onlineDownload the PDFGemma Gardner
- 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.
Read onlineDownload the PDFGemma Gardner · 22 August 2026 · v1
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22055682
- 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 presents the AURIS Change Engine as an applied sequencing hypothesis drawing together established behaviour-change, identity and self-regulation concepts. It proposes links among insight, behavioural evidence, self-trust and identity stability, supported by a multi-domain measurement model and an applied case study. The integrated causal sequence is not presented as validated or superior to established approaches.
Read onlineDownload the PDFGemma Gardner · 30 April 2026 · 1
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19918563
- Supporting paper
Identity Performance Psychology: White Paper Vol. 2
How Identity, Regulation, Behaviour and Meaning May Relate to Sustainable Human Performance
This paper introduces Identity Performance Psychology as AURIS's proposed applied field of inquiry and the AURIS five-pillar coaching model as its working applied framework. It draws on established behavioural, identity, self-regulation, transition and coaching literature. The component sciences are not claimed as AURIS discoveries, and the integrated sequence is evidence-informed but not yet validated as necessary, optimal or superior.
Read onlineDownload the PDFGemma Gardner · 27 April 2026 · 2.0
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19818259
- 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.
Read onlineDownload the PDFGemma Gardner · 10 April 2026 · 1.0
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19495442
About this research
Our research draws on several fields: how identity works, how people change, how services are put in place, and what people tell us in their own words.
We always separate three things: what the evidence already shows, what is our own new thinking, and what our early findings suggest.
Identity Performance Psychology and the AURIS Identity System™ are still being developed. They need more testing, and review by people outside AURIS.
This research is not presented as clinical guidance, psychological treatment or crisis support.
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Gardner, G. (2026). Identity in Occupational Transition: Evidence, Research and Future Directions for UK Policy (v2.0 Master, full report and appendices). AURIS Identity System™.
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