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We need to think carefully about how we are using evidence during lockdown

May 13, 2020 Vanessa Todman 0

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]

Contextual Admissions: A-Level Playing Field

March 6, 2020 Vanessa Todman 1

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

February 19, 2020 Vanessa Todman 0

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

December 20, 2019 Vanessa Todman 2

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

November 22, 2019 Vanessa Todman 0

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?

August 5, 2019 Vanessa Todman 1

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!

March 11, 2019 Vanessa Todman 0

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 

September 7, 2018 Eleri Burnhill 0

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

September 4, 2018 Susannah Hume 0

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

July 17, 2018 Susannah Hume 0

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]

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