We need to think carefully about how we are using evidence during lockdown
Vanessa Todman, Head of Student Experience Research | When approached about how to run social research during lockdown, often our advice is ‘don’t do it’. — [Read More]
Evaluation
Contextual Admissions: A-Level Playing Field
By Chiamaka Nwosu, Data & Research Analyst and Yasemin Genç, Research Associate| While it is a university’s prerogative to recruit the best talent, it has — [Read More]
A day in the life of an Evaluation and Research Adviser
By Henry Woodward- Evaluation and Research Adviser| This blog is often dominated by the behavioural insights and experimental trials aspect of What Works, but it — [Read More]
All I want for Christmas is a Theory of Change
By Nadia Chechlińska, Research Associate| Outreach staff are all working towards a common goal: equal opportunity of access to higher education. It’s an ambitious goal — [Read More]
2019 may have been the year of null results, but it’s moving us forward
Vanessa Todman, Head of Student Experience Research and Miriam Styrnol, Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor| Null results are useful. In What Works we’re always seeking — [Read More]
Can we nudge students at university?
Michael Sanders, Reader in Public Policy at the Policy Institute at King’s | In the decade since Thaler and Sunstein’s book Nudge was published, behavioural — [Read More]
What’s Next for What Works? Fewer Surprises!
Michael Sanders, Reader in Public Policy at the Policy Institute at King’s and Executive Director of the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care | — [Read More]
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]
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]