We are keen to hear about cutting-edge approaches the research community is using which could have applications to our work. Particularly in ground-breaking evaluations, with robust focus on impact and value for money, what works and using more innovative techniques and data sharing
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Responding to the increasing recognition of complexity of policy and policy implementation, CECAN produced innovation in policy evaluation for policies relating to energy, food, water and the environment (the 'Nexus'). C...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Surrey
The project focuses on policy evaluation and developing methods for policy analysis, which can contribute to improving coherence of UK wide data and maximizing learning from devolution.
There is great potential for understanding more about our society through better use of data that already exists and by linking different datasets together. Using existing data is not only efficient and cheaper than coll...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast
The project aims to increase access to and use of administrative data for evidence-based policy making and evaluation, which partially addresses the question.
Administrative data (that is information collected primarily for administrative purposes) has long contributed to central government statistics. During the last 15-20 years, technological advances in data science have al...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
The project focuses on using administrative data for social science research, which partially addresses the question.