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Khulisa’s use of evidence
7 February, 2019In this short film Lisa Rowles, Director of Innovation and Evidence at Khulisa, explains how using evidence has helped the charity to develop effective services for children and young people. View subtitled version.Mini-publics are for policy not just for Brexit
7 February, 2019We live in an era where trust in political institutions is low and declining. It has been suggested that this lack of trust extends to experts too. For too long evidence has been seen as the...article
Evidence vs Democracy: what are we doing to bridge the divide?
30 January, 2019People are hacked off with politicians. Whether it’s hurling abuse at MPs outside the House of Commons, or the burning barricades of Gilets Jaunes in Toulouse, discontent is in the air. The evidence movement must respond...article
Evidence vs Democracy: How ‘mini-publics’ can traverse the gap between citizens, experts, and evidence
January 2019Can mini-publics - an alternative democratic platform - help democracy connect with evidence?publication
Let’s start as we mean to go on
15 January, 2019In his first blog as Executive Director for the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care, Michael Sanders spells out what success will mean for the Centre and for those we’re here to support. Today is...article
Dissemination is Dead, so Do This Instead
6 December, 2018Academics and policymakers alike are facing mounting pressures to improve the supply of rigorous evidence for decision-making. Yet improving the supply of good evidence is not the same as translating that evidence into meaningful changes in...article
Evidence Matters Webinar
Wednesday 5 December, 2018This webinar is being delivered in partnership with the Alliance for Useful Evidence and Wales Centre for Public Policy and aims to: - Introduce the Alliance for Useful Evidence and Wales Centre for Public Policy. -...event
Standards of Evidence: How do we use them? Can we improve them?
Monday 26 November, 2018Nesta, 58 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DSA workshop for users and providers of Standards of Evidence.event
Science of using Science Learning Report
November 2018The Joint UCL Public Policy & Alliance for Useful Evidence training programme was an experimental learning programme for researchers across UCL departments that aimed to support researchers to develop their understanding and skills in engaging and...publication
The Economist Group and The Pew Charitable Trusts launch the Evidence Initiative
1 November, 2018A growing wariness between what is fact and what is fiction in recent years has been highlighted by increased political polarisation, a fractured media and the accelerated pace of technological change. The Evidence Initiative, the recently launched...article
Open access: five provocations
25 October, 2018This week marks International Open Access Week 2018. At the Alliance for Useful Evidence, we’re big supporters of the principles behind the open access (OA) movement: scholarly research should be available to everyone, not just to...article
Standardising Standards: The Case for Shared Standards in the Evidence Sector
October 2018Jim Vine makes the case for a common set of evidence standards across social policy and practice.publication
Research Evidence in the Humanitarian Sector: A Practice Guide
October 2018A new resource for the humanitarian sector.publication
New one-stop online resource for US evidence-based programmes
13 September, 2018Jonathan Breckon provides a guide to the Results First Clearinghouse Database, which brings together the evidence base for over 2,500 US programmes. Could it provide a model for something similar in the UK? Earlier this summer,...article
Working with the ‘I’ in evidence
4 September, 2018Those working to increase the use of evidence need to understand the internal journey that’s required for people to change their behaviour, writes Kerry McCarthy. Back in 2015 I started to wonder what, as an evaluation...article
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Why we prize the use of evidence
23 July, 2018For the third time, the Alliance for Useful Evidence is pleased to be partnering with the Political Studies Association on their Annual Awards, to celebrate the successful use of evidence in policy-making. Nominations are now open...article
Evidence for Good
July 2018Charities are becoming increasingly sophisticated about how they gather evidence of impact - and there are many great guides and tools out there to help them do so. But there are other ways that the third...publication
How do What Works Centres work?
18 July, 2018The authors of the report ‘UK What Works Centres: Aims, methods and contexts’ share the findings of their research and the lessons that can be learnt by the wider sector. The UK is unique in having...article
‘It seemed like a good idea at the time’ (and other strategies for behaviour change)
11 July, 2018Changing the way that decision-makers engage with evidence is no easy task. For all our efforts, making high quality evidence available and accessible often just isn’t enough. What motivates a politician to commission a review, or...article
The Alliance for Useful Evidence’s Theory of Change
July 2018We have developed a Theory of Change to show how we make a difference to decision-makers' use of evidence.Nesta Sparks: Using evidence for smarter decision-making
Wednesday 27 June, 2018Nesta, 58 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DSIn this talk, Jonathan Breckon, Director of the Alliance for Useful Evidence, shares practical advice on how to use evidence in your work for smarter decision-making, including how to choose the most appropriate evidence and how...event
Evidence Champions: Influencing and Behaviour Change
Thursday 14 June, 201858 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DSThe Alliance for Useful Evidence are joined by the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change for our latest Evidence Champions workshop on influencing and behaviour change.event
Standards of Evidence in UK social policy – what are they and how are they used?
7 June, 2018Ruth Puttick, author of our report ‘Mapping the Standards of Evidence used in UK social policy’ discusses the differences in Standards of Evidence in more depth. Over the past decade, Standards of Evidence have become increasingly...article
Alliance and Wales Centre for Public Policy networking evening
Monday 4 June, 2018Haydn Ellis Building, Cardiff, CF24 4HQYou are invited to a networking event, hosted by the Alliance for Useful Evidence and the Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP).event
Mapping the Standards of Evidence used in UK social policy
May 2018In recent years there has been a rapid proliferation of standards of evidence and other frameworks which aim to tell us what is and isn’t working. Following in-depth consultation with the organisations who use them, Ruth...publication
Encouraging evidence-informed practice through Action Learning
30 May, 2018Janet Grauberg (an organisational learning consultant working in children’s services) explains why Action Learning is an ideal way to embed evidence-informed practice. Most days, I don’t have time to read all the interesting bulletins that land...article
A welcome new funding stream for research on research
22 May, 2018At the Alliance we have been arguing for ages that the evidence community needs to learn more about the use of research by policymakers and professionals. What exactly helps people to use evidence? We need more...article