Children who’ve been in care are disproportionately likely to have youth justice involvement

Researcher Anton Roberts of the Policy Evaluation and Researcher Unit (PERU) is proud to release this report in collaboration with Lifeshare. This detailed piece of work explores the role of complex need in frontline homelessness services - attempting to define the challenges faced, provide examples of best practice, and a host of recommendations for improved ways of working. This detailed service guide has been informed by Anton's co-productive doctoral research, which took place over a two-year period across provisions here in Manchester. The resource also draws heavily on the lived experience of the organisations staff, volunteers and service users. This resource would be of great use to any frontline workers/volunteers in the sector, as well as any frontline provision that works with vulnerable/marginalised groups. It is a reflection of the (at times) stark difficulties faced by third sector organisations, but also provides a series of realistic and practical solutions.

Professor Ashwin Kumar is stepping down as Director of @MMUPERU

The Education Endowment Foundation is advertising a funded MSc Traineeship to study Evaluation & Policy Analysis at Manchester Metropolitan University or Social Research Methods at University College London

Professor Susan Baines died on the 10th November 2023 at the age of 67

Children who’ve been in care are disproportionately likely to have youth justice involvement

The Policy Evaluation Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University is recruiting a Research Associate to work on the first pan-European cohort study measuring child and youth wellbeing across Europe

Ashwin Kumar is giving a keynote address at the Institute of Employment Professionals annual Summit 2023 on 15 June 2023. He will be speaking about the need for good jobs, not just any job.

PERU are looking for a Research Associate to work on a UK evaluation of a social investment programme addressing housing and homelessness. The evaluation is a large, multi-method project involving several research partners.

PERU’s Professor Ashwin Kumar has been cited by The Guardian regarding the distributional effect of the government’s recent ‘fiscal event’

The main purpose of this role is to undertake research on the Horizon 2020 project GUIDEPREP which is a Research Infrastructure Preparatory Phase grant supporting Growing Up In Digital Europe (GUIDE), the first pan European cohort study measuring child and youth wellbeing across Europe.

The main purpose of this role is to undertake research on the Horizon 2020 project COORDINATE which is a Starting Community on using survey research data to enhance child wellbeing policy making across Europe.

The Pilot Evaluation Report, authored by Dr Jessica Ozan, Sandor Gellen, Prof Chris Fox, Prof Stephen Morris and Rebecca Cargill, has now been published on the What Works for Children's Social Care (WWCSC) website.

Idleness: book launch with authors Katy Jones and Ashwin Kumar

EESC: Co-creation of services of general interest as a contribution to a more participative democracy in the EU.

PERU’s Professor Ashwin Kumar has been cited by The Guardian regarding the distributional effect of the government’s recent ‘fiscal event’

In this new book, Chris O’Leary looks afresh at the reasons for prosocial work choices in the first substantive critique of Public Service Motivation (PSM).

A new issue of the British Journal is now available. The theme which presents itself across the papers in this open issue is that of trauma – of individuals and of communities – where the social and psychological concerns of individuals intersect with the criminal justice system and wider structural problems within society.

The PERU team is growing and has a Research Associate job opportunity to join our established project team.

Discussion of lessons learned from the development of third party hate crime reporting centres (TPRCs) in the UK.

An Evaluation of the Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) of alcohol in Scotland finds that the introduction of minimum unit pricing of alcohol had a minimal impact on drink-related crime.

The PERU team is growing and has a Research Associate job opportunity to join our established project team.

A ground-breaking study about how teaching philosophy in prisons helped long-term prisoners build positive relationships, trust and explore what it means to live a good life

Growing Up In Digital Europe (GUIDE), which is co-led by PERU has been included in the latest revision of the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) 2021 Roadmap

The British Journal of Community Justice has published a new blog by Denis Sidebottom on trust and relational probation practice.

Recordings of events from this year's Manchester CRIME and Justice Film Festival are now available to stream.

Using a deck of virtual cards to think about the future of work

PERU part of a consortium to develop and test the design, methodology and viability of an Early Life Cohort Study that is likely to follow participants for more than 70 years.

British Journal of Community Justice calls for papers for special issue

The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) at Manchester Metropolitan University leads international project that will generate exciting new data to help policy makers improve child and youth well-being

PERU's Kevin Wong co-authors a new Academic Insights paper for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation

PERU contributes to a report showing that the quality of probation delivery falls when practitioners are responsible for managing more than 50 cases.

PERU researcher argues that needs assessment and sentence planning should transcend their core justice functions and set the tone for effective engagement between people supervised by probation and their supervisors

New book asks 'what is good cycling?'

The British Journal of Community Justice hosted and managed by PERU is marking International Restorative Justice Week by publishing two new papers.

The Centre for Homelessness Impact has appointed the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester to undertake a systematic review of the effectiveness of harm reduction versus abstinence-based substance use interventions for people experiencing homelessness.

PERU's Anton Roberts, a Graduate Research Assistant who is undertaking a PhD at PERU presented a paper at the North East Post Graduate (NEPG) 2020 conference.

Today A stitch in time? Realising the value of futures and foresight is published by the RSA.

The British Journal of Community Justice (hosted and managed by PERU) has published new content today. 

PERU is a member of the MiCREATE project. The MiCREATE consortium is holding a confererence in Krakow, Poland from the 4-5 December 2020 and welcomes papers, which elaborate and explore both theoretical and practical problems of migrant children’s integration in European communities.

After an open recruitment and selection process PERU’s Kevin Wong (Reader in Community Justice and Associate Director Criminal Justice) has been appointed as the new Chair of the Criminal Justice Alliance (CJA).

Kim Heyes, ManMet colleagues and Youth Mental Health Matters recently conducted some consultation groups with young people, professionals, and parents about what they think mental health services should look like for young people.

Professor Gary Painter, Director at the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation at the University of Southern California, and a Visiting Professor at PERU, presented new findings from collaborative research with staff at PERU on Social Impact Bonds at Oxford University.

Chris O'Leary joins The Rt Hon David Davis MP, Douglas Carswell who is a former MP and the co-director of the Good Governance Project and Matthew Lesh who is the Head of Research at the Adam Smith Institute for a panel discussing reforming the State after Covid.

Sally Taylor, Chief Executive of Koestler Arts is “delighted” with the PERU research into the impact of the Koestler Arts Awards on prisoners and prisons. 

New blogs reflecting on COVID-19 have been published today by the British Journal of Community Justice, hosted and managed by PERU

The draft report of a project to model the economic impact of a citizen’s basic income in Scotland has been published today.

The British Journal of Community Justice (BJCJ) hosted and managed by PERU, has published the first of a two-part special issue on Hate Crime and racist prejudice in the criminal justice system.

PERU’s Kevin Wong and Barbara Shepherd from the Manchester Fashion Institute have set out policy recommendations for preventing shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE).

The new free issue of the British Journal of Community Justice has been published today.

Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, the British Journal of Community Justice has published it first commentary on institutional responses to the crisis.

Already in its second year, MiCreate, a project providing a child-centred approach to exploring and surmounting integration challenges, has gathered valuable insights from schools across Manchester.

In collaboration with the Royal Society of Arts and MetroPolis we will be working with policy-makers, RSA Fellows and others to answer an important and timely question: what benefits do foresight methods offer to support policy-makers and practitioners, and to stimulate public dialogue on key issues?

PERU's Chris Fox is speaking at Villiers Park Educational Trust's virtual ‘lunchtime’ conference programme on evaluation in the Higher Education widening participation agenda.

PERU’s Kevin Wong and Rachel Kinsella along with their co-author Linda Meadows have been awarded a certificate of achievement by the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.

Discussion of lessons learned from the development of third party hate crime reporting centres (TPRCs) in the UK.

Blog post 'Doing Co-creation – a Challenge of Social Investment'

Sarah Page examines the United Kingdom pupil experience of racism and race-hate-related extremism through research

his morning PERU is hosting the second international Webinar with from the Centre for Digital Society (CFDS) at the University of Gadjah Mada.

This year’s festival, orgainsed by Kevin Wong and Gavin Bailey of PERU and Lucy Simpson from RAH! starts on the 18th March with a screening of i Believe in You introduced by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation, Justin Russell.

PERU staff are reaching out to our colleagues in Indonesia. Last week PERU’s Stephen Morris presented by live webinar to students and staff at the University of Indonesia.

The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit and Criminal Justice Alliance are holding a Crime and Justice Networking and Learning Fair on Wednesday 18th March at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Stevie-Jade Hardy, Neil Chakraborti and Ilda Cuko identify how police training can be improved to address the under-reporting and inconsistent recording of hate crime

HM Inspectorate of Probation today publishes a report by Professors Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson, exploring the concept of innovation and its application to the delivery of probation services.

the case for the new Growing Up in Europe Survey as developed by The European Cohort Development Project (ECDP)

Today members of PERU are leading a roundtable session at the Department for Education updating on the latest developments in the EuroCohort project.

Stephen Morris is part of a team delivering a course on Capacity Building in Impact Evaluation: Counterfactual and Theory-Based Approaches at the European institute for Public Administration in Barcelona.

The new free issue of the British Journal of Community Justice has been published today.

Dave Nicholson who is a PhD student with PERU has written a chapter on the potential for co-operatives to re-shape community payback in a book published yesterday.

Last week PERU were pleased to host the second in a series of seminars for the Prisoner Learning Academic Network.

Unfortunately the Academy for Social Justice has had to defer the date of their seminar entitled “Prevention is better than court” which will now not take place on 28 November.

In a new paper published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation, PERU’s Kevin Wong argues that probation provision is complex, delivered by a wide range of providers dealing with diverse service users and performing differing functions.

Rachel Horan PERU Associate Researcher and Director of the Averment Group along with PERU’s Kevin Wong and Kirstine Szifris set out the case for operationalising risk needs and responsivity (RNR) and desistance principles in their newly published paper on the Enablers of Change needs assessment tool.

Rachel Horan PERU Associate Researcher and Director of the Averment Group along with PERU’s Kevin Wong and Kirstine Szifris set out the case for operationalising risk needs and responsivity (RNR) and desistance principles in their newly published paper on the Enablers of Change needs assessment tool.

PERU’s Kevin Wong will make the case for adopting market stewardship principles in contracting with voluntary sector agencies at a conference on “The power of collaboration:

Congratulations to Charlotte Gislam and Rebecca Wynne-Walsh, the joint winners of the Festival’s student choice competition.

Congratulations to Charlotte Gislam and Rebecca Wynne-Walsh, the joint winners of the Festival’s student choice competition.

Ashwin Kumar spoke at the Office for National Statistics Data Capability Research Excellence Awards in London. 

Ashwin Kumar spoke at the Office for National Statistics Data Capability Research Excellence Awards in London. 

PERU's Chris Fox and Ashwin Kumar too part in the General Assembly of the UN affiliated European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research.

PERU's Chris Fox and Ashwin Kumar too part in the General Assembly of the UN affiliated European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research.

PERU's Chris Fox was at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles last week for the launch of our partnership with the Price Center for Social Innovation.

PERU's Chris Fox was at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles last week for the launch of our partnership with the Price Center for Social Innovation.

PERU's Chris Fox was at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles last week for the launch of our partnership with the Price Center for Social Innovation.

PERU is pleased to announce that it is working with the Youth Endowment Fund to evaluate 3 of the twenty two projects for which funding is announced today.

PERU’s Stephen Morris and Kevin Wong are hosting and leading a learning workshop today for Greater Manchester policy makers, commissioners and service providers.

PERU’s Stephen Morris and Kevin Wong are hosting and leading a learning workshop today for Greater Manchester policy makers, commissioners and service providers. 

Population Europe have published a policy brief which argues that there is a need for high quality comparative longitudinal survey for the full life-course.

The European Cohort Development Project (ECDP) is developing the technical, financial and political case for a European-wide longitudinal cohort study of children and young people's wellbeing.

At a national conference today PERU’s Kevin Wong will argue that the Government’s Hate Crime Reporting Policy is fundamentally flawed, reliant on good intentions but inadequately resourced

At a national conference today PERU’s Kevin Wong will argue that the Government’s Hate Crime Reporting Policy is fundamentally flawed, reliant on good intentions but inadequately resourced.

Over the next three years PERU will evaluate the implementation and impact of the RESCALED programme.

Dr Kim Heyes is speaking at the 5th Community Psychology Festival in Brighton at a workshop on Bringing Activism back into Community Psychology.

Kim Heyes has been appointed a Trustee and Non-Executive Director of PSS.

The University, led by staff in PERU, has co-hosted a huge international sociology conference – welcoming over 3000 delegates to Manchester.

In an article in The Conversation PERU's Chris O'Leary argues that reforms to the way local authorities are funded are probably the most radical – and least discussed – changes made by the coalition and conservative governments since 2010.

The recently established Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has announced that PERU, with our colleagues at the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies (MCYS), has been successful in its bid to join their new Evaluation Panel.

The consortium of the European project MiCREATE will host a symposium, on 24 and 25 October 2019 to explore:

Chris Fox delivered a presentation to HM Inspectorate of Probation's Summer School for its Assistant Inspectors.

Today Chris Fox and Andrew Smith will be delivering a seminar at the Ministry of Justice on What Works in Reducing Reoffending.

Ashwin Kumar chaired the panel discussion at the launch on 22 July of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter.

On 24 July, Ashwin Kumar will speak at a Fabian Society event on the future of work for low-paid workers

Ashwin Kumar spoke at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership event on Women and the Future of Work. 

The local organising committee of the 14h European Sociological Association, taking place in Manchester, is chaired by PERU's Gary Pollock and members include PERU's Jessica Ozan and Aleks Szymczyk.

Kirstine Szifris has been appointed the vice-Chair of Prisoner Learning Academic Network (PLAN).

We are pleased to announce a new international partnership on social impact investing between Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Southern California.

In his inaugural lecture in March, PERU’s Visiting Professor Sir Martin Narey reflected on the links between care, custody, alcohol and child neglect

The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit have been appointed to Panel of Evaluators for the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care.

Kirstine Szifris will today give a talk at the Heyman Centre for Humanities

PERU will today launch the Reducing Reoffending website.

Throughout this week PERU will be hosting a series of events as part of Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service Insights ’19 Festival.

Staff from PERU feature in a new podcast on personalisation.

PERU’s Kevin Wong will appear on BBC Radio Manchester today to talk about The Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival.  

PERU's Andrew Smith and Man Met ESRI's Professor Cathy Lewin recently carried out a comprehensive review of global evidence describing the effectiveness of digital technologies in raising attainment in schools.

PERU member Dr Jessica Ozan will be contributing to a YouthPower Learning Webinar this Thursday 4th March.

We prefer ideas and solutions that we don’t have to work at, particularly those that chime with our existing ideologies and beliefs

PERU has completed a review of technology in probation supervision that is published today by HM Inspectorate of Probation.

PERU PhD student Gail Mann won second prize for best presentation at MMU's Postgaduate Research conference this week

PERU’s Kirstine Szifris has been invited back to the Prison Research Centre, Cambridge University to lead a seminar today on Philosophy Education in Prisons.

Professor Sue Baines will deliver her inaugural lecture ('Reinventing the past – investing in the future') on Monday 25th March at 6pm.

Ashwin Kumar, currently Chief Economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), is joining Manchester Met in May 2019 as its new Professor of Social Policy.

In 2017, TLAP published a report Gathering the Evidence: Making Personal Budgets Work for All, setting out a direction for improving understanding on the impact of personalisation.

PERU is working with a consortium of 15 partners across Europe on a three-year innovation project, MiCREATE (Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe).

The British Journal of Community Justice website is going live to our readers today. It’s a special issue on women offenders.

Kim Heyes and Kirstine Szifris have been awarded an ERASMUS+ grant to visit Taylor’s University, Malaysia this week.

During a private visit to Vietnam over the Christmas period PERU's Dr Peter Traynor was invited to address the Vietnamese National Police Academy in Hanoi.

PERU’s Kevin Wong is proposing a distinctive model for the voluntary sector to engage with people with convictions built on: reciprocity, reliability, consistency and emotional pleasure.

Professor Gary Pollock's article on EuroCohort: Europe's first birth cohort survey is now available to download for free.

The most recent edition of the Bedrosian Center podcast features a recently published book on Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds

PERU’s Kirstine Szifris has recently been appointed trustee of Irise International, a charity that focusses on period poverty and menstruation issues.

EuroCohort, a project led by PERU, has been mentioned in the initial analysis of infrastructures as part of the process to develop the next UK Research Infrastructure Roadmap.

PERU’s Kirstine Szifris has had an article on boredom published by a leading philosophy magazine, How the Light Gets In.

New resarch by the Policy Evauation and Research Unit, commissioned by the Residentail Landlords Association, is released today.

The American Evaluation Association Conference started yesterday in Cleveland, Ohio.

Fulfilling the legacy of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report – twenty years on

Complex commissioning for complex needs using partnerships, individuals assets and lived experience to build fulfilling lives.

PERU’s Rachel Kinsella and Kevin Wong along with other MMU colleagues have now completed their three-year evaluation of the Whole System Approach to Women Offenders in Greater Manchester.

In a new article in Inside Housing PERU's Dr. Chris O'Leary explains that the rough sleeping population is not homogenous, nor is it static.

PERU’s Kirstine Szifris has been invited to give the closing keynote to the Tutor’s Association conference at the Barbican centre in London on October 16th 2018.

MMU is proud to be hosting the Prison Learning Alliance (PLA) Conference 2018.

PERU's Chris Fox has become the National Liaison Official for the European Centre for Social Welfare and Policy Research.

A submission authored by PERU's Gavin Bailey, Phil Edwards and Kevin Wong has been published by the Defence Committee inquiry into Global Islamist Terrorism.

PERU Associate Dr. Phil Edwards has published a paper arguing that contemporary British counter-terrorist legislation is dominated by ‘counter-law

Earlier this year PERU’s Kevin Wong and Gavin Bailey contributed to the recording of a film aimed at raising awareness of Hate Crime amongst children and young people.

PERU's Peter Traynor has had a piece on knife crime published in The Conversation.

Dr Jessica Hind-Ozan and Kim Heyes are currently in Tanzania to facilitate the coming together of a consortium of academics and policy makers.

PERU is delighted to announce that the Prison Learning Alliance conference is coming to Manchester Metropolitan University in the Autumn.

PERU’s Rachel Kinsella spoke at the Clinks Networking Forum:

To mark the launch of their book on Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based Payment Systems in the UK and US the authors are taking part in a number of events and seminars in the UK and Europe.

New Book Documents What We Know About Innovative Financing Models

PERU Research Associate Kim Heyes will be talking about how to support victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse at the Women of the World (WOW) Festival in Chester

Dr Kirstine Szifris of PERU today presented the findings from her PhD work at the British Sociological Association conference at Northumbria University.

A new report published yesterday is advocating a distinct approach to the way that young adults are treated at court.

PERU’s Dr Chris O' Leary, an expert on housing, writes about home ownership.

Manchester Metropolitan University researchers are leading the design of a survey for the first Europe-wide project to track the well-being of children as they grow up.

PERU, partnership with Interserve today launched a new Reducing Reoffending website.

PERU’s Kevin Wong presented findings from the Transition to Adulthood Pathway Programme Evaluation at “Between Care and the Criminal Justice System

In an article in the The Conversation Kevin Albertson looks at reactions to globalisation and argues that while nationalism is often the response to globalisation, localism would be far better for us all.

The European Cohort Development Project (ECDP) is a Design Study which will create the specification and business case for a European Research Infrastructure that will provide, over the next 25 years, comparative longitudinal survey data on child and young adult well-being. The project addresses an important gap in evidence to support better policy-making.

The final process evaluation of the T2A Pathway initiative is published today.

Today some of the PERU team are in Brussels leading the closing conference for the InnOSI project. A short video describing the project and its main aims is available to watch.

PERU will be working with a consortium of 24 partners across Europe on a three-year innovation project Co-creation of Service Innovations in Europe (CoSIE).

Manchester Metropolitan University is delighted to be appointed by the Koestler Trust to evaluate the impact of the Koestler Arts Awards.

Professor Sue Baines joins PERU

Chris Fox presented a paper based on a structured review of emprical evaluations of 32 Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and 35 Payment by Results (PbR) programmes implemented in the UK since 2010 at a conference on Progressing the debate on Social Impact Bonds:

PERU's Chris Fox will speak at a  panel event organised by Reform and Metropolis at the Conservative Party conference on the theme ‘Delivering public services that citizens deserve: the role of innovation’

Free event

Kevin Wong (Associate Director of PERU) has published two articles, on Community Justice and Community Service in the newly published The Encyclopedia of Corrections, edited by Kent R. Kerley (Editor in Chief), published by Wiley

The post holder will be based in the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) and will work full time on research and evaluation projects that cover criminal justice and wider social policy including welfare, education and housing.

Presentations from this well recieved  Innovative Social Investment: Reforming public services 2 day event are available here

Professor Stephen Morris is a co-author of an evaluation report from The Study of Early Education and Development (SEED).

The Conversation today published a piece by PERU's Gavin Bailey, looking at the history of al-Muhajiroun.

PERU's Professor Chris Fox is an invited speaker at a Knowledge Exchange event organised by the Scottish Prison Service taking place at the Scottish Prison Service College on the 14th July.

We have a small number of free places to attend our seminar on public service reform on the afternoon of 22nd June and the morning of the 23rd June 2017. The seminar examines two aspects of public service reform: first, innovative approaches to financing and resourcing public services; and secondly, the concept of personalisation and its role in public service reform. The seminar includes speakers from the UK and Europe.

For more details about the seminar and a link to register for a free place click here.

Kevin Albertson spoke at this one-day event on the theme “Globalisation, Nationalism and Devolution”.

Community sentences: where did it all go wrong?

Manchester Metropolitan University is delighted to welcome Sir Martin Narey as a Visiting Professor at its Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU).

The piece is a response to a recent report by the Adam Smith Institute that highlights a perceived left-wing bias in academia.

Kevin Wong and Rachel Kinsella from PERU will be co-facilitating a workshop at the 2nd National Summit on Tackling Multiple Disadvantage on the 9th May 2017.

Dr Henry Partridge (PERU, MMU) is co-teaching a week long summer school course on R at the University of Manchester with Dr Reka Solymosi (UoM) in June.

PERU research associate, Kirstine Szifris, has been invited to speak at the Prison Education Trust's annual symposium.

Staff from PERU are contributing to a number of events on Justice Devolution, working with Metropolis - Manchester Metropolitan's research-led think tank.

Kevin Wong who was previously Acting Director at the Hallam Centre for Criminal Justice at Sheffield Hallam University is joining PERU during January 2017.

PERU's Chris Fox will speak at the National Offender Management Service Research Practice Forum on 'Approaches to Deliving Robust Research in Challenging Environments'.

Professor Stephen Morris has been elected to the Council of the UK Evaluation Society.

The trouble with the troubled families programme

What works when sample sizes are small? Understanding policy-makers’ evaluation needs in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors

Kevin Albertson recently organised and spoke at the ESRC funded event “The Rime of the Ancient Manchester: Developing the socio-political and cultural languages of devolution”.

Kevin Albertson recently discussed the value (or otherwise) of giving presents on ABC’s radio programme/podcast The Money.

PERU is working with Manchester Met's Metropolis (an academic-led think tank) and iNetwork to organise a national event on Justice Devolution.

A funded PhD scholarship is now available to evaluate co-production and the Manchester Homelessness Charter.

Prof. Stephen Morris and Kirstine Szifris are leading a workshop day with staff from Novus' Engima team. 

On the 21st of October, Prof. Albertson spoke at the 2016 Pro-Manchester Economics Conference,

On September 20th 2016 Professor Chris Fox is presenting to a group from the Dutch Ministry of Safety & Justice and the board, management and policy-advisors of the Dutch Probation Organisations.

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks working with Tom Clarke, Science Editor for Channel 4 News.

PERU's Gavin Bailey will be speaking in Warsaw on 23rd September, as part of the ESPAnet-Poland conference on social investment and development.

PERU's Director, Professor Chris Fox, has become a Trustee and non-executive Director of the Coaching Inside and Out (CIAO).

The Early Intervention Foundation are launching a programme of work to examine the inter-parental relationship and the consequences of these for family life and child wellbeing.

Kevin Albertson, one of the founder members of PERU and currently leading a strand of work on our Innovative Social Investment (INNOSI) project has been made Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University.

A new paper co-authored by PERU's Henry Partidge and published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Members of PERU lead the FP7 Child and Youth Wellbeing (MYWEB) Policy Forum at the European Commission attended by representatives of a number of DGs

Professor Stephen Morris has been appointed to the Department for Education's Analytical Associate pool.

Dr Kevin Albertson asks “Is a capitalist democracy possible?

Dr Kevin Albertson spoke at The UK's EU Referendum:

Professor Stephen Morris has been appointed 'external expert' on the Cross-Government Trial Advice Panel.

I am delighted to have been selected as a British Science Assocation Media Fellow for this year! I will be placed with Channel 4, working with the Science Editor, Tom Clarke.

A unique inside look at the banned radical Islam group Islam4UK found that its members had little interest in world affairs or the politics of the Middle East and Pakistan.

Chris will present a framing paper on the potential for Pay for Success (Payment by Results) to effect large scale social change at the University of Southern California's conference on 'Activating Markets for Social Change'.

PERU's Gavin Bailey will be presenting a paper titled ‘Beyond grievance and integration

PhD Scholarship Competition 2016

MMU is launching a Crime and Well-Being Big Data Centre. Several of the PERU team are involved and the Centre will be closely aligned with PERU. 

Stephen Morris will be joining the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University as a new Professor of Evaluation on the 1st February 2016.

A new partnership will lead the way in offender learning, skills and employability.

PERU's Director, Chris Fox, will run a workshop at the Clinks annual conference.

A NEW partnership will lead the way in offender learning, skills and employability.

Professor Chris Fox's Seminar 'The next five years of criminal justice for England and Wales' at the Academy for Justice Commissioning.

Today the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit embarks on a major research and innovation project looking at how innovative social investment policies can strengthen communities in Europe.

Professor Chris Fox and the Public Service Transformation Network are running a series of six free webinars on Evaluation, which we believe will be of benefit to Academy members.

The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) have published the London Probation Trust (LPT) Peer Mentoring Evaluation.

An article in "The Independent" highlights research to be published by Patrick Williams

Thomas Piketty (New Review) and Will Hutton ("Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why", Comment) argue capitalism isn't working. It has long been known, as Winston Churchill put it in 1945: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings."

Dr. Robert Grimm will be speaking about the economic policies of the German Euro-skeptic party ‘Alternative für Deutschland’ on the 4th February 2014

NHS Commissioning for Offender Health (Jan 2014)

PERU Associate Dr. Peter Joyce is guest editor of  the January edition of Safer Communities ‘Police Crime Commissioners: Twelve Months On’

Kevin has had a number of letters published in the Metro Newspaper over the last twelve months;

Thinking outside the cell.

Martin Price, MYPLACE Project Manager writes about approaching the end of the project’s primary data collection phase.

Chris Fox has edited the Spring Bulletin of the Academy of Justice Commissioning

A recent study by the Department of Sociology & Criminology’s Policy and Evaluation Research Unit (PERU)