Centre for Evidence and Policy Publications
Working Papers
The Centre's working papers are listed below and available to download.
- Paper 1 - Evidence based policy: whence it came and where it's going
- Paper 2 - Systematic Reviews: What they got to offer vidence based policy and practice
- Paper 3- Evidence Based Policy: I In Search of a Method
- Paper 4 - Evidence Based Policy: II The Promise of 'Realist Synthesis
- Paper 5 - Evidence and Policy and Naming and Shaming
- Paper 6 - Making it Easy for the Reader: a Guide to the Use and Citation of Published Material
- Paper 7 - Evidence based policy and the quality of evidence: Rethinking peer review
- Paper 8 - Does Megan’s Law Work? A Theory-Driven Systematic Review
- Paper 9 - Evidence Based Policy and Practice: Cross Sector Lessons From the UK
- Paper 10 - Conceptual Synthesis 1: Learning from the Diffusion of Innovations
- Paper 11 - Fit for purpose? Assessing research quality for evidence based policy and practice
- Paper 12 - Social care knowledge: seeing the wood for the trees
- Paper 13 - Social care knowledge: SCIE-like ‘typologies’
- Paper 14 - Social care knowledge: a ‘fit for purpose’ classification
- Paper 15 - Integrating Evidence Based Practice With Continuing Professional Development: a Seminar Report
- Paper 16 - Increasing research impact: early reflections from the ESRC Evidence Network
- Paper 17 - Types and quality of social care knowledge Stage one: a classification of types of social care knowledge
- Paper 18 - Types and quality of social care knowledge Stage two: towards the quality assessment of social care knowledge
- Paper 19 - A difficult business: finding the evidence for social science reviews
- Paper 20 - GM crops and foods. Evidence, policy and practice in the UK: a case study
- Paper 21 - Mentoring relationships: an explanatory review
- Paper 23 - Evidence-informed policy: what difference do outsiders in Whitehall make?
- Paper 24 - Evidence for Accountability The nature and uses of evidence in the audit, inspection and scrutiny functions of government in the UK
- Paper 25 - The practice of research reviewing 2. Ten case studies of reviews
Publications by Members of the Centre
- A multitude of syntheses: a comparison of five approaches from diverse policy fields
- Academics and practitioners: speaking metaphorically
- Are you in the know?
- Arts and culture: another case of policy-based evidence making?
- Assessing the quality of evidence in evidence-based policy: why, how and when?
- Assessing the quality of knowledge in social care: exploring the potential of a set of generic standards
- Enhancing the evidence base for health impact assessment
- Evaluating policy and practice: a New Zealand reader
- Evidence and policy and naming and shaming
- Evidence-based policy: a realist perspective
- Evidence-based policy: in search of a method
- Evidence-based policy: the promise of 'realist synthesis'
- Finding the evidence in the social sciences
- From postgraduate to social scientist: a guide to key skills
- Google: boon, bane or both?
- I've found it: what do I do now?
- Literature searching: waste of time or essential skill?
- Making Research Count - where it really counts
- Models of research impact: a cross-sector review of literature and practice
- Organising social care knowledge: in search of a 'fit for purpose' classification
- Outsiders in Whitehall
- Policy-makers use evidence only when it suits them: discuss
- Public management and governance
- Putting evidence into practice: an evidence-based approach to continuing professional development
- Research and policy: building a good relationship
- Research dialogue should replace dissemination
- Research in Practice for Adults
- Scientific advice, risk and evidence based policy making
- Social Policy and Practice: a UK-focused database for social researchers and practitioners
- Social science and the evidence-based policy movement
- The ascendancy of evidence
- The perilous road from evidence to policy: five journeys compared
- The Social Care Institute for Excellence: reaching a crossroads
- The strategy of politics: results of a comparative study
- Types and quality of knowledge in social care
- What counts as research? The implications for research governance in social care
- What do we know?

