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Research · Evidence behind a course
Understanding Identity
Explore roles, belonging and changing priorities using ordinary or fictional examples. Make space for losses, continuing capabilities and changes you may want to make.
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: Walters, Miller-Lewis & Johnson, Behavioral Sciences (2026), PMID 42651563, DOI 10.3390/bs16081386. Recent qualitative evidence on identity redefinition after separation: PMID 42048106. Stoic material is treated as philosophical practice, not proof of transition outcomes.
Research projects
No published research project record names the same ground as this course yet.
See the research calendarPublications
- 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.
- Identity in Occupational Transition
The parliamentary evidence review, readable in full in the Research Library.
- The Science of Sustainable Human Change
A conceptual paper presenting an integrated Identity Performance Psychology model. A proposal is not proof of effectiveness.
- Behavioural Change Through Structured Awareness
A white paper proposing a structured-awareness approach to behaviour change, without guaranteeing personal outcomes.