The Family's Transition
For the whole family unit, including children, a companion to Belonging After Service, focused on the family's collective transition rather than the spouse's individual identity work.
This page shows what the AURIS research records actually hold behind this course: the coded themes it draws on, the research projects it belongs to and the publications that carry the argument. Nothing is listed here that is not already recorded elsewhere.
Interviews
The programme records 38 coded interviews of a planned 108. The live interview log is still being filled, so this page reports the written programme figure rather than a log count.
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
Evidence note (corrected against the AURIS Academy Strategic Blueprint's current research record): AURIS's interview research includes spouses and partners in depth, and also includes a fully-logged interview with an adult who grew up as a military child (EP002, Andy Hunsley, a nomadic British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) childhood, the inherited-instability pattern, and the moment his own son's remark became his turning point). That adult-retrospective account is real, direct evidence and should inform this course's framing of what growing up in a military family can carry forward. The gap that genuinely remains is narrower: no interviews with currently-living minors, which would need its own safeguarding and consent process distinct from the adult-consent process used elsewhere. The content on talking with children below is grounded in general, published child-development and family-transition literature for that reason, clearly separated from AURIS's own primary research, not because no relevant AURIS research exists at all.
Research projects
Data collection ongoing · 2024 to ongoing
Identity After the Uniform
A long term qualitative study of how identity changes when a defining role ends, drawing on interviews across the military, emergency services and healthcare.
Published · 2025
Identity in Occupational Transition
The parliamentary evidence review on identity in occupational transition, readable in full in the Research Library with citation details.
Published · 2025
From Transition to Service Provider Identity Adaptation
Repositioning transition as an ongoing process of identity adaptation rather than a single event at the end of service.
In delivery · 2026 to ongoing
Partner Pilots: Trafford Veterans CIC, Red Rose Recovery, Out in the Bay
Evidence informed pilots testing the AURIS Identity System in real delivery settings alongside partner organisations.
Publications
- 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 38 of a planned 108 coded interviews, the current evidence strength of the AURIS framework, and the gaps still open in this work.
- Why AURIS Exists: The Evidence for Identity-Focused Support After the Uniform
AURIS White Paper Vol 5: the evidence base for the Identity After the Uniform programme, with a Trafford Veterans CIC case study.
- 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.