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Cover The What Works Centres

The What Works Centres

Lessons and Insights from an Evidence Movement

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Editors:
Michael Sanders
and
Jonathan Breckon

Leaders, researchers and practitioners from the UK “What Works Network” share their insights on the successes, failures, and future of the What Works Centres, which have proven successful and popular across a number of policy settings.

Publisher:
Policy Press
Publication Date:
28 Apr 2023
Online ISBN:
9781447365112
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447365112
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Front Matter
Front Matter
Foreword
Part I
1: The scene is set
2: How did we get here? What Works in the UK? A personal journey
3: The role of NICE in the evidence-based health system
4: What works in crime and policing: getting closer to the frontline
5: The Education Endowment Foundation: building the role of evidence in the education system
6: Audiences first, evidence second: lessons from the Early Intervention Foundation
7: Overcoming the youth employment evidence challenge
8: ‘Pulling rather than pushing’: a demand-led approach to evidence mobilisation
9: The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth: some lessons from the first ten years
Part II
10: Criticisms and challenges of the What Works Centres
11: Higher aspirations: growing from a university home to an independent body
12: Using evidence to end homelessness
13: Scaling up: taking ‘what works’ to the next level
14: Measuring what matters
15: Bringing it all together: the future of evidence synthesis
16: Frontiers in equality
17: Evidence at the grassroots
18: Conclusion
Back Matter
Index

The last decade has seen a growing focus on producing evidence-based policy and practice in governments around the world – with a specific focus on causal evidence of the impacts of a particular policy on outcomes for citizens. The UK is a key example of this, with the establishment of 14 What Works Centres which collate, create and translate evidence in different policy and practice domains.

In this book, leaders, researchers and practitioners from these institutions share insights to help understand what has worked so far in the Centres, and what could be done better in future. It offers guidance to policy makers and funders looking to establish new centres, and for academics looking to create similar institutions that can have a practical impact on the improvement of the world around us.

Michael Sanders is a Professor of Public Policy and Jonathan Breckon is a visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London, both have worked with or for the majority of the UK’s What Works Centres.

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© Bristol University Press 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9781447365099
ePub ISBN:
9781447365105
Online ISBN:
9781447365112
Page Extent:
278
Keywords:
Randomised Controlled Trials; Experiments; Policy; Innovation; What Works
Global Social Challenges:
Democracy, Power and Governance
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships
Subject:
Politics and International Relations, Public Policy and Administration, Social and Public Policy, Public Services Management, Social Research Methods and Research Practices, Evaluation
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