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Will this policy work?

Posted by: Sumayyah Tasnim, Posted on: 15 July 2020 - Categories: Blog posts, Evaluation, Resources for civil servants

Five questions to help policy makers understand if their policy is working.

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Does mindfulness work in policing?

Posted by: Dr Helen Fitzhugh, Posted on: 2 March 2020 - Categories: Blog posts

In this blog, Dr Helen Fitzhugh shares her experience of leading the recent Mindfulness in Policing RCT and how connecting and collaborating with frontline staff was a key factor in the success of the trial.

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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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What works for What Works: How to communicate effectively

Posted by: Dr Cameron Brick, Posted on: 16 January 2020 - Categories: Blog posts, Evaluation, Guest blogs

Evidence summaries are harder to produce than you might think. A new evaluation looks at how well the What Works Network is communicating evidence and what improvements could be made. 

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12 highlights over 12 months

Posted by: Sumayyah Tasnim, Posted on: 18 December 2019 - Categories: Blog posts

The 2019 highlights you've all been waiting for....

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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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An interview with David Halpern, What Works National Adviser

Posted by: David Halpern, Posted on: 25 October 2019 - Categories: Blog posts
David Halpern

Hear from David Halpern, What Works National Adviser, on his journey so far and his ambitions for the next three years.

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The road to robustness: common pitfalls in evaluating programmes

Posted by: Tom McBride, Posted on: 6 July 2018 - Categories: Blog posts, Guest blogs, Resources for civil servants

The Early Intervention Foundation’s Tom McBride explains why programme evaluation is crucial to the success of children’s service, but can be undermined by surprisingly basic issues.

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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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