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Meet the What Works Trial Advice Panel

Posted by: Sumayyah Tasnim, Posted on: 20 February 2020 - Categories: Blog posts, Evaluation, Resources for civil servants
What Works Trial Advice Panel Members

Meet some of the experts working to make government more empirical

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Using academics to advise government on trial design

Posted by: Dr Emily Power and Dr Riikka Hofmann, Posted on: 29 October 2019 - Categories: Blog posts

The What Works Team are looking for experts in impact evaluation to join our Trial Advice Panel to help support high quality evaluation practice across government. In this blog, Riikka Hofmann reflects on her experience as an academic member of the Panel.

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What Works 101: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Posted by: Janine Ostick, Posted on: 1 August 2018 - Categories: Resources for civil servants, What Works 101

...and turn them into accessible guidance or toolkits – catalogues of which interventions are most effective in different policy areas, according to the best studies around the world. What Works...

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The Trial Advice Panel: supporting a more experimental government

Posted by: Edward Orlik, Posted on: 4 May 2018 - Categories: Blog posts, Resources for civil servants
The Trial Advice Panel offers free advice to civil servants whoa re thinking about conducting a trial.

Over the past 5 years, the What Works Team has championed what we call the ‘What Works approach’ as a better way of making policy across government: identifying problems using good data, designing a solution using the best evidence available, …

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What Works is about bringing better evidence and experimental techniques to bear on public policy.

The Cabinet Office What Works Team coordinates the What Works Network and the Cross Government Trial Advice Panel, and we work within government to improve policy through evidence use and experimentation.

In this blog, we bring together examples of best practice and resources for civil servants who want to find out what works and put robust evidence to good use.

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