Question group
Analytical and research methods
Questions in this group:
Analytical and research methods
Statistical techniques: to better measure effects within our research and the analysis of our data; learning from new methodologies to analyse and interrogate data, including clustering effects, multi-level modelling, power calculations for complex study designs and dealing with bias and paradox types that are highly prevalent in our datasets (self-selection and demographic bias; Simpson’s paradox and ecological correlations), missing information and low frequencies.
Ministry of Justice, 2025
Analytical and research methods
Social research methods: including qualitative research and ethnographic methods to give a richer understanding of the experience of, and interactions with, the justice system; advances in ‘big qual’ methodology; quantitative social research methods such as sequence and cluster analysis, and use of online methodologies.
Ministry of Justice, 2025
Analytical and research methods
Simulation, agent-based modelling and hybrid modelling methods: using optimisation methods; forecasting techniques; resource modelling, and performance frameworks to inform evidence-based effective and efficient operational delivery across the MOJ estate.
Ministry of Justice, 2025
Analytical and research methods
Prototyping: including agile design methods to understand user needs, test core mechanisms and assumptions early, and inform continuous improvement; use of AI to create synthetic participants and analyse data in the very early stages of policy development.
Ministry of Justice, 2025
Analytical and research methods
Evaluation: building on commitments set out in the MOJ Evaluation and Prototyping Strategy, for example by exploring use of a wide range of approaches to evaluation design such as Bayesian trials, confounding control approaches to causal inference, theory-based evaluation and value for money evaluation; additionally, the use of AI tools for evidence synthesis.
Ministry of Justice, 2025
Analytical and research methods
Economic methods: to understand the value of justice including economic and econometric analysis to investigate, quantify and monetise social and economic benefits and costs of different aspects of justice, and how the rule of law contributes to economic growth.
Ministry of Justice, 2025
Analytical and research methods
Data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI): using digital tools for AI whilst ensuring transparency, accountability and reserved legal activities; algorithmic decision-support and decision-making; large language models for feature extraction and the analysis of complex textual data.
Ministry of Justice, 2025
Analytical and research methods
Co-production: to explore the co-production of research with people with lived experience, to promote engagement with the research process and findings. This includes understanding effective approaches in engaging justice system users in the co-design, co-production and dissemination of research.
Ministry of Justice, 2025
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