Howard White (the Campbell Collaboration) explains why context is everything when it comes to interpreting apparently contradictory research findings. The Nurse Family Partnership – home visits to teenage first time mothers from low-income families – is...

  Rachel Preen from Winston’s Wish shares what the charity has learned through taking part in the Realising Ambition programme. The Realising Ambition programme often talks about the idea of a ‘tapestry of evidence’ ranging from...

  Rohini Pande, Charity Moore and Eric Dodge (Harvard Kennedy School) explain how bringing policymakers together with researchers to work more iteratively ensured that data from the world’s largest public works programme is accessible and relevant to  those who use it....

Update February 2016: A new version of the map is available here. Stephen Bediako (The Social Innovation Partnership) and Jonathan Breckon (the Alliance for Useful Evidence) would like your feedback on a new map of the UK...

  Daniel Schweppenstedde and Anne-Marie Reid  share a case study from the Childhood Development Initiative, demonstrating how evidence that an intervention is not effective can have a valuable purpose. The use of evidence for improving services is often thought...

  Howard White of the Campbell Collaboration believes arguments put forward by the Howard League’s Commission on English Prisons Today are undermined by the fact they missed the opportunity to cite the rigorous evidence that reducing the prison population will not...

  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...