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Research · Evidence behind a course
Identity After the Uniform — The First Year
Consider changes in routine, capability, work and belonging after service. Explore which service-linked connections and other roles you want to retain or develop.
Read the recorded sources, AURIS interpretation and limitations alongside this course. A matching theme or publication provides context; it does not establish that the course has been independently evaluated or caused a beneficial outcome.
Interviews
Programme position: 47 transcribed and coded interviews, owner-reported as of 28 October 2026; target 108. This figure is pending verification against the interview register.
See the full research progressThemes behind this course
No coded theme in the interview log names the same ground as this course yet. Coding is under way, and themes will appear here once they are recorded. We do not list themes we cannot show the work behind.
What the course record states
Military-to-civilian transition meta-synthesis: Sachdev & Dixit, Military Psychology (2024), DOI 10.1080/08995605.2023.2237835. Identity/meaning/purpose scoping review: PubMed PMID 42651563 (2026).
Research projects
No published research project record names the same ground as this course yet.
See the research calendarPublications
- 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.
- 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.
- Identity in Global Transition Policy
A review of transition policy across five countries and NATO, an alliance rather than a sixth country.
- From Transition to Service Provider Identity Adaptation
Repositioning transition as an ongoing process of identity adaptation.
- Identity in Occupational Transition
The parliamentary evidence review, readable in full in the Research Library.