Description
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.
About the Author
Sandra Nutley is Professor of Public Policy and Management and Director of the Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU), University of Edinburgh. Isabel Walter is Research Fellow in the Social Dimensions of Health institute, Universities of St Andrews and Dundee. Huw Davies is Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of St Andrews, and Director of the Social Dimensions of Health institute, Universities of St Andrews and Dundee.
Reviews
"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." Social Sciences Newsletter
"This book is a major contribution to the literature: clear, thoughtful, relevant and evidence-informed. My first bit of advice for the Academy of Management here in the US is for everyone to read your book." Thomas G. Rundall, Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Organized Health Systems, U.C. Berkeley
"[the book] ought to command wide endorsement" Public
Book Information
ISBN 9781861346643
Author Sandra M. Nutley
Format Paperback
Page Count 376
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Bristol University Press
About the Author
Sandra Nutley is Professor of Public Policy and Management and Director of the Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU), University of Edinburgh. Isabel Walter is Research Fellow in the Social Dimensions of Health institute, Universities of St Andrews and Dundee. Huw Davies is Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of St Andrews, and Director of the Social Dimensions of Health institute, Universities of St Andrews and Dundee.
Reviews
"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." Social Sciences Newsletter
"This book is a major contribution to the literature: clear, thoughtful, relevant and evidence-informed. My first bit of advice for the Academy of Management here in the US is for everyone to read your book." Thomas G. Rundall, Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Organized Health Systems, U.C. Berkeley
"[the book] ought to command wide endorsement" Public
Book Information
ISBN 9781861346643
Author Sandra M. Nutley
Format Paperback
Page Count 376
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Bristol University Press
