Meet the What Works Trial Advice Panel
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Sumayyah Tasnim, Posted on:
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Blog posts, Evaluation, Resources for civil servants
Meet some of the experts working to make government more empirical
12 highlights over 12 months
The 2019 highlights you've all been waiting for....
Using academics to advise government on trial design
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.
Inside the world’s ‘what works’ teams
Governments around the world are investing in experimentation units to improve the quality of evidence used in decision-making.
The road to robustness: common pitfalls in evaluating programmes
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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.
How are experiments in the Midlands leading to safer streets?
The police are in a tricky position. When crime rates go down it is often claimed as a success for great policing. When they go up we can become socio-economic commentators, blaming the bad news on the economy, unemployment or the rise of digital technology. We can’t have it both ways!