Dr Kathryn Oliver (University of Oxford) argues that we need a clearer understanding of who is already influencing policy, and how, if we want to increase the role of academic evidence in policymaking. It’s easy – and...

Howard White (Campbell Collaboration) examines whether DRIVE, an Intimate Partner Violence programme being piloted in the UK, will be conducted in a way that will generate useful and much-needed evidence. BBC News recently carried a story on a...

On 8 March 2016 the Alliance for Useful Evidence hosted a discussion on the politics of evidence-based policy making, to coincide with the launch of Professor Paul Cairney’s book. Here Paul argues that when presenting evidence...

Dr Stefanie Ettelt and Professor Nicholas Mays (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) share their simple tips for ensuring that policy pilots generate useful evidence. Piloting of public policy is almost universally seen as a...

Genevieve Maitland Hudson (Osca) explains how, despite significant spending on research, Kids Company lacked evidence of its own impact.  Not all research is equally important to social programmes. This isn’t only a matter of the standard of...

  To paraphrase the famous Strawbs song all those years ago (apologies to younger readers!), fewer people seem to be ‘getting it’ when we talk about developments in other UK jurisdictions. While the debate on our...

Jonathan Breckon shares 6 simple ways to make your professional training course more effective – based on the evidence.  The UK training industry is big business. The private market is worth around £3 billion and there’s 12,300 providers....

  This guest blog is from Chief Superintendent Alex Murray of West Midlands Police – the second largest force in England and Wales.  Alex is Commander of Solihull Local Policing Unit. He is also the founder of...

  Realising Ambition is a UK-wide £25m Big Lottery Fund programme replicating 25 services aimed at preventing children and young people from entering the criminal justice system. This programme, managed by Catch22 in partnership with the Dartington...

  Following the success of our first webinar asking ‘What is Good Evidence’ in September (which you can find a link to on the left), our Evidence Exchange team ran a second webinar on 8 December 2015....

Who remembers the general election? So opened the questioning at a high level roundtable which we recently convened at Nesta, where a group of senior figures from the data and evidence world gathered to assess how...

Last month, the Alliance for Useful Evidence and Institute for Government held a joint roundtable in Cardiff exploring opportunities for evidence exchange and policy learning between the UK and devolved governments. Here Leighton Andrews, Minister for...