Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin shares her reflections on using Contribution Analysis to evaluate the impact of Iriss – an intermediary organisation with a focus on knowledge sharing, evidence-informed practice and innovation. What’s the question? Iriss aspires to support culture...

  The Alliance for Useful Evidence is committed to promoting useful evidence, and its use across the public, private and third sectors. As a part of its Evidence Exchange programme that champions knowledge sharing and learning...

  David Hounsell at The Children’s Society believes the charity sector isn’t doing enough to get impact support to the frontline practitioners who need it. Only by learning from practitioners and breaking down organisational silos can we...

  It’s surprising, given the relative absence of think tanks and research centres in Northern Ireland, that a local What Works Centre has not been set up to assist policy makers in this jurisdiction. Peter O’Neill, Northern...

Patrick Taylor shares what he’s learnt from implementing standards of evidence in Nesta’s Social Innovation Lab over the past year. I recently spoke at the Centre for Youth Impact’s Gathering on the use of evidence from a funder’s...

Michael O’Donnell at Bond, the UK membership body for NGOs working in international development, explains why commissioners and managers should always consider the ‘design triangle’ when selecting an evaluation method – and a new guide that...

Eibhlin Ni Ogain on the key lessons learnt from implementing evidence and impact measurement in Nesta’s Impact Investments fund. Two and a half years ago we launched Nesta Impact Investments. We boldly stated that we would...

This year, the Alliance’s cross UK project – Evidence Exchange – has been sharing evidence across the UK. This blog outlines some of the learning from the project’s first six months. What are we talking about?...

Robert G. Picard explains how new visualisation techniques can aid our understanding of complex data. Large-scale and complex data create challenges for businesses, government, and civil society organisations to act upon and is now leading scholars...

Zoe Ferguson, former Chief Researcher in the Scottish Government, provides a brief outline of ‘the Scottish approach’ to policy making, which has significant implications for cross UK evidence exchange and analysis. The development of a distinctive...