Realist causal evaluation – securing the utopian vision
Eleri Burnhill, King’s College London | At the Brilliant Club Conference this year, Anne-Marie Canning, our Director of Social Mobility and Student Success, delivered the — [Read More]
The Unintended Benefits of Letting Interventions Go Off-Piste
By the What Works Intern | Recently the What Works Department, along with some help from our friends at BIT, started running an intervention offering — [Read More]
How do we raise parents’ aspirations for their children?
By Eleri Burnhill, King’s College London | Widening participation initiatives aim to raise the aspirations of students from underrepresented backgrounds to progress to higher education, — [Read More]
Reflections on the Behavioural Insights and Student Success Training
Nasima Bashar, King’s College London | In higher education, interventions supported by behavioural insights (BI) can aid student decision-making and increase student engagement and sense — [Read More]
Making the grade
Susannah Hume and Michael Sanders, King’s College London and Behavioural Insights Team | In the KCLxBIT project we asked respondents at two time points what grades they — [Read More]
Thank you, teachers!
Susannah Hume, King’s College London and Behavioural Insights Team | Friday 22 June was Thank a Teacher Day. For many people, one thing they could thank their teachers for — [Read More]
Introducing the King’s ACES framework
By Vanessa Todman, King’s College London | The What Works team (and its predecessor KCLxBIT) have now conducted thirteen RCTs, a series of workshops and — [Read More]
Sense of belonging and social capital: our hot topics for 2018/19
By Vanessa Todman and Susannah Hume, King’s College London | In one of our first blogs on this site, our Director, Anne-Marie Canning, described the — [Read More]
Reflections from the RCT practitioner workshop
By Eleri Burnhill, King’s College London | The need to provide evidence of the impact that access interventions are having on the outcomes of disadvantaged — [Read More]
What are the opportunity costs of our access and student success initiatives?
By Susannah Hume, King’s College London and Behavioural Insights Team | ‘Opportunity cost’ is a cornerstone of microeconomics that has a great deal of relevance — [Read More]