What Works Summit: Early Years
Wednesday 13 February, 2019
Riddel Hall, Stranmillis, Belfast
What works for children and families from pregnancy to pre-school.
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event 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 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 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 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 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...
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