Dr. Warren Pearce asks why, when there is such widespread support for evidence-based policy, is it so hard in practice? The answer, he argues, can be found in an array of definitions used for evidence and...

  A House of Commons science and technology committee inquiry is looking into the potential benefits of real-time analysis of social media. According to a report for the Alliance, published last year, social media data could...

  NICE has recently been joined by some new kids on the block. Some problems are sufficiently wicked to need a few runs rounds of the block, so is there anything to be re-cycled from the...

There remains a vast chasm between research and policy, partly because the ‘wily policy fox’ and the ‘prickly research hedgehog’ rarely work together from the start, according to Adrienne Skelton who leads on evidence at Macmillan Cancer Support. But...

The following two-part video was produced as a virtual keynote address for the Ontario Education Research Symposium, Canada (18-20 February, 2014). Sandra Nutley and Huw Davies were asked to talk about their provocation paper on ‘What...

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