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The Trial Advice Panel: supporting a more experimental government
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...
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How can schools make use of evidence to reduce teacher workloads?
This is a guest post by Shaun Allison, deputy headteacher at Durrington High School, one of 22 schools in the Education Endowment Foundation’s (EEF) Research Schools Network. The Network is committed...
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Five lessons we’ve learnt in our first five years
Last month marked exactly 5 years since the What Works Network was established to feed better evidence into the way we make decisions across the public sector. We’ve come a long way since 2013. The...
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How are experiments in the Midlands leading to safer streets?
This guest blog is written by Alex Murray, Assistant Chief Constable, West Midlands Police. Assistant Chief Constable Alex Murray of West Midlands Police has been using experimentation to tackle...
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Building a global evidence ecosystem for teaching
Sir Kevan Collins, Chief Executive at the Education Endowment Foundation, explains how his organisation is launching a £10m programme to improve the use of evidence in schools around the world. A new...
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Learning what works in building integrated communities
This month has seen the end of the consultation period for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) Integration Strategy. As usual, the green paper offers a chance for...
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What Works in Westminster Palace – Evidence Week 2018
I’m really excited to be attending Evidence Week in Parliament next week. The four-day event will bring together MPs and peers, parliamentary services and people from all walks of life across the UK...
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The road to robustness: common pitfalls in evaluating programmes
This is a guest blog from Tom McBride, Director of Evidence at the Early Intervention Foundation. The Early Intervention Foundation is a member of the What Works Network. The world needs more...
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What Works 101: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
In the What Works Team we often throw around terms like ‘quasi-experiment’ and ‘meta-analysis’ that can seem quite bewildering at first, but actually describe common-sense approaches to designing and...
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