How can existing research evidence be made accessible and useful to frontline services? How cost effective are different communication and engagement methods?
Background
The most difficult challenges faced by our public services are complex and cross-cutting. Increasing efficiency alone will not be enough to tackle these challenges, nor for public services to keep pace with the continuing pressures they face to do more with less. To that end, our areas of research interest focus on better understanding the challenges and opportunities in the delivery of public services in the future, including the demand for the public services, making more effective use of data, reducing ethnic disparities and being more diverse and inclusive, and the level of productivity in the public sector.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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What Works Scotland Centre
What Works Scotland will be a collaborative centre bringing together staff from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, other academics and key non-academic partners. Its aim is to support the use of evidence to plan ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to support the use of evidence to plan and deliver sustained and transformative change based on agreed outcomes at all levels with a particular focus on the local.
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Evidence Request Bank development
This one-year feasibility study will explore and establish an Evidence Request Bank to produce and share appraised summaries of evidence for the voluntary and public sectors, in direct response to their practice needs. T...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to produce and share appraised summaries of evidence for the voluntary and public sectors, in direct response to their practice needs.
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Information Sharing in Policy and Practice: What needs to be shared (or not shared) when we share information?
This proposal responds to the urgent challenges posed by the uses of information in governing and delivering public services. Disasters and tragedies have been repeatedly attributed - at least in part - to the failure of...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Newcastle University
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically addresses the challenges of information sharing in public services, which is crucial for making research evidence accessible to frontline services.