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Practitioners’ Events: December 2017 and January 2018

Monday 11 December, 2017

A series of events across England for practitioners to help the What Works Centre for Children's Social Care Development Team gather information and perspectives on the key tasks and activities that social workers and colleagues perform;...

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Applying ‘dark logic’ in practice

29 November, 2017

Let’s have the courage to consider the harm that our interventions might do, as well as their intended impact, writes Dr Nick Axford (Plymouth University and Dartington Service Design Lab). Not a million miles away from...

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Evidence Champions Networking and Learning Workshop

Tuesday 28 November, 2017

Big Lottery Fund, Apex House 3 Embassy Drive Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 1TR

The Alliance for Useful Evidence is hosting an Evidence Champions networking and learning seminar.

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Leaders of medical, teaching and policing professions pledge to put evidence at the heart of their institutions

16 November, 2017

On 7 November leaders of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the College of Policing and the Chartered College of Teaching met at the Royal Society to sign the Declaration on Evidence, written by Professor Jonathan...

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Evidence Intermediary Case Study: Project Oracle

9 November, 2017

For over five years The Alliance for Useful Evidence has been supporting the development of evidence intermediaries, organisations and networks adept at evidence synthesis and knowledge mobilisation. For example, Nesta made the case for and then...

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Learning from the British What Works Centres: What Lessons for Evidence-Based Policy in France?

November 2017

The Alliance for Useful Evidence is delighted to publish the translation of the recent French scoping of evidence intermediaries by Agence nouvelle des solidarités actives and partners: 'British What Works Centres: what lessons for evidence-based policy in...

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Evidence Declaration for Professional Bodies

Tuesday 7 November, 2017

The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG

On 7 November, the Alliance and Professor Jonathan Shepherd hosted a breakfast roundtable event for leaders and heads of professional bodies to sign a public evidence declaration signalling commitment to quality evidence use and practice within...

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Learning from the What Works Network

2 November, 2017

Pippa Coutts (Alliance for Useful Evidence Research and Policy Manager) and Edward Orlik (What Works Team in the Cabinet Office) reflect on the What Works Network’s learning around what makes an evidence centre successful. The What...

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What Works Network Open Day

Tuesday 24 October, 2017

Nesta, 58 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DS

On 24 October, the Cabinet Office and the Alliance for Useful Evidence hosted an invitation-only seminar for the existing What Works Network and early-stage centres.

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Developing the new What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care

12 October, 2017

Greg Wilkinson (Traversum) and Jonathan Breckon (Alliance for Useful Evidence) on the development of a new What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care. At the National Children and Adult Services conference in Bournemouth this morning, the...

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Standing up to misuse of statistics in a post truth world

11 October, 2017

Kerstin Hinds (Office for Statistics Regulation) on why the misuse of statistics must be challenged, to ensure that official figures can be used, and trusted, by us all. I am writing 10 days after our Chair,...

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Using Research Evidence: A Practice Guide – Welsh Translation

August 2017

The most downloaded publication on Nesta's website in 2016, this practice guide from the Alliance for Useful Evidence and Nesta's Innovation Skills Team, has been created to help you use research evidence to improve your work.

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