Using Evidence: How Research Can Inform Public Services

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Policy Press, 2007 M03 14 - 363 páginas
This book provides a timely and novel contribution to understanding and enhancing evidence use. It builds on and complements the popular and best-selling "What Works?: Evidence-based policy and practice in public services" (Davies, Nutley and Smith, Policy Press, 2000), by drawing together current knowledge about how research gets used and how this can be encouraged and improved. In particular, the authors explore various multidiscipliary frameworks for understanding the research use agenda; consider how research use and the impact of research can be assessed; summarise the empirical evidence from the education, health care, social care and criminal justice fields about how research is used and how this can be improved and draw out practical issues that need to be addressed if research is to have greater impact on public services. "Using evidence" is important reading for university and government researchers, research funding bodies, public service managers and professionals, and students of public policy and management. It will also prove an invaluable guide for anyone involved in the implementation of evidence-based policy and practice.
 

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two What does it mean to use research evidence?
33
three What shapes the use of research?
61
four Descriptive models of the research impact process
91
whats been tried
125
six What can we learn from the literature on learning
155
seven Improving research use in practice contexts
195
eight Improving research use in policy contexts
231
nine How can we assess research use and wider
271
ten Drawing some conclusions on Using evidence
297
References
321
Index
355
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Sandra Nutley is Emeritus Professor at University of St Andrews, and a specialist in using evidence to inform public policy and practice. Huw Davies is Professor of Health Care Policy & Management at the University of St Andrews, and co-founder of the Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU).

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