Academic and Research Organisations

There is a wide variety of work going on in the UK to understand the dynamics of marriage in the UK, to understand the trends, and to promote academic research on marriage and relationships. Here we list some of the leading organisations in the UK and around the world.

Professor Robert Rowthorn Robert Rowthorn is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, and has special interest in the interaction of economics and the family.

Search for Opinion polls on Marriage MORI conduct hundreds of polls each year, and report on polls by others. Here you can check for info on their latest findings.

One Plus One One Plus One monitors contemporary marriages and relationships, focusing on understanding the causes, effects and prevention of relationship breakdown, which it has pioneered as a public health issue. Through its unique interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners, it puts research into practice in innovative community projects to help couples and their families. It is core funded by the British government and is one of the national marriage organisations.

National Family and Parenting Institute The Government established the NFPI following the Home Office consultation on Supporting Families in 1999.

CARE - Publications and research CARE, Christian Action Research and Education is a mainstream Christian movement which undertakes campaigning, providing resources, undertaking caring work and bringing Christian insight and experience to matters of public policy, and education.

Civitas Civitas, The Institute for the Study of Civil Society, was formed to deepen public understanding of the legal, institutional and moral framework that makes a free and democratic society possible. Its research includes ersearch into marriage and the family.

Family Education Trust Promotes responsible attitudes to marriage and family life through research and the publication of resources.

Family Matters Institute Equipping the church to support the family.

DEMOS A leading multi-factor think-tank which includes work on the changes to society, the family and marriage.

Fathers Direct Raising the profile of fatherhood in the nation

Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships This is one of the world's leading psychoanalytic authorities on marital and couple psychotherapy and research into the couple relationship. They provide couple therapy, trainings in couple therapy, consultations to couples in distress as well as courses for therapists and counsellors working with couples, consultation to professionals, lectures, workshops and conferences.

Centre for Analysis and Social Exclusion Research at CARE, LSE, into the factors that precipitate or inhibit divorce

Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge Some work on parental divorce and the impact on children.

Centre for Research on Families and Relationships Glasgow Caledonian University, University of Aberdeen, University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow collaborate in this centre launched in 2001 to stimulate family research and cross agency co-operation in post-devolution Scotland

Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood The Centre was formed in 1997 to bring together people from across the University of Leeds who were interested in research on issues concerning family organisation and change, new forms of partnering and parenting, diversifying kinship networks and forms of mutual obligation, and all aspects of childhood in Britain at the end of the twentieth century.

Centre for the Study of the Family, Law, & Social Policy This centre at the University of Staffordshire covers work at the heart of governmental concern in family matters, links medical law and ethics with family law, and undertakes comparative research into family law and social policy in a range of jurisdictions.

Institute for Social and Economic Research Analysis of longitudinal search using the British Household Panel Survey including information on cohabitation and marriage patterns by ISER, University of Essex.

Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues Based at Birkbeck College, Professor Jay Belsky is an internationally recognized expert in the field of child development and family studies. He also leads the Team for the National Evaluation of Sure Start

Newcastle Centre for Family Studies Attached to the University of Newcastle the centre aims to promote multi-disciplinary research on family life and relationships and play an influential role in the development of family policy.

University of Wolverhampton Work within the The School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences on contempory family life

The National Marriage Project, USA Aims to strengthen the institution of marriage through research and analysis. Publications include annual reports and the Top Ten Myths about Divorce.

The US Marriage Movement The US Marriage Movement is a broad-based, bipartisan coalition of scholars and writers, religious and civic leaders who have literally signed on to the idea of reversing the divorce culture.

The Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education Leading US "clearing house" for research on marriage.

The International Academy for Marital Spirituality Link to INTAMS, The International Academy for Marital Spirituality, the Belgian based Catholic center for marriage studies

Family Studies Research Centre A partnership between Cardiff University and University of Wales College of Medicine which focuses on family breakdown and legal implications, adoption, child protection.