At Nesta we want to take the ‘open data’ campaign a step further. We are now calling for the creation of a ‘Red Book for Evidence’. This would reveal the evidence that’s behind policy decisions...

  In this guest blog Caroline Fiennes, the Director of Giving Evidence, investigates the value of failure and its usefulness as a source of evidence.  Thomas Edison failed more than 1,000 times before he eventually found...

  In the guest blog by Sue Littlemore, a founding patron of the Education Media Centre, explores the potential value that academics and journalists could gain by engaging with each other’s field.   A sure way...

  In this guest blog, Professor Huw Davies from the University of St. Andrews, asks what counts as good (enough) evidence? What matters is what works, goes the orthodoxy for ideology-free government. But what counts as...

  In this guest blog, Rosie Chadwick draws on her own experience and shares her list of suggested barriers that need to be overcome before organisations can use evidence more effectively.   What gets in the...

  In this guest blog, Naomi Eisenstadt discusses the use of evidence within the Government’s Sure Start programme.  The term ‘evidence’ is being loosely used in imprecise ways to argue for particular approaches to solving social...

  Ruth Puttick introduces Nesta’s Standards of Evidence, developed to test whether the products and services Nesta Impact Investments fund make a positive difference. This new approach aims to bring impact measurement in line with academically...

  In this guest blog, Jackie Killeen, the Scotland Director of the Big Lottery Fund, discusses the value of both finding and utilising evidence to inform organisation priorities and funding. I recently took part in a...