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Members of the list may be interested in the following book published
today by The Policy Press:
WHAT WORKS?
EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY AND PRACTICE IN PUBLIC SERVICES
Edited by Huw T.O. Davies, Sandra M. Nutley and Peter C. Smith
Department of Management, University of St Andrews; Department of
Economics and Related Studies, University of York
The authors consider the role of evidence in specific public policy
areas (healthcare, education, criminal justice, social care, welfare,
housing, transport and urban renewal), using experts in each field to
explore the creation, dissemination and use of evidence within each.
They consider in particular:
· How is research evidence of service effectiveness created?
· How does such evidence shape policy and influence service delivery?
· What efforts are being made to encourage greater utilisation of
evidence in policy and practice?
The rich cross-sectoral accounts of the many and diverse activities in
each sector provide an insight into the ebb and flow of evidence as
guidance to policy and practice. What works? develops perceptive
analyses of outstanding problems, and raises challenging agendas for
service development and future research.
The authors conclude with the all-important question of the
implementation of evidence-based practice and lead the way to the
reinvigoration of innovative thinking.
Contents: Foreword - Ron Amann; Introduction: Introducing
evidence-based policy and practice in public services - Huw Davies,
Sandra Nutley and Peter Smith; Evidence and the policy process - Sandra
Nutley and Jeff Webb; Part One: Analysis by service area: Healthcare:
evidence to the fore - Huw Davies and Sandra Nutley; Education:
realising the potential - Carol Fitz-Gibbon; Criminal justice: using
evidence to reduce crime - Sandra Nutley and Huw Davies; Social care:
rhetoric and reality - Geraldine Macdonald; Welfare policy: tendering
for evidence - Robert Walker; Housing: linking theory and practice -
Joe Doherty; Transport: beyond predict and provide - Francis Terry;
Urban policy: addressing wicked problems - Tony Harrison; Part Two:
Thematic analysis: A strategic approach to research and development -
Huw Davies, Gloria Laycock, Sandra Nutley, Judy Sebba and Trevor
Sheldon; Debates on the role of experimentation - Huw Davies, Sandra
Nutley and Nick Tilley; Non-experimental quantitative methods - John
Hutton and Peter Smith; Contributions from qualitative research -
Philip Davies; Making a reality of evidence-based practice - Sandra
Nutley and Huw Davies; Concluding remarks: Learning from the past,
prospects for the future - Huw Davies, Sandra Nutley and Peter Smith.
Paperback £17.99 ISBN 1 86134 191 1
Hardback £45.00 ISBN 1 86134 192 X
396 pages
This book is availabe from: Marston Book Services, PO Box 269,
Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4YN. Tel: 01235 465500. Fax: 01235 465556. Email:
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