PERUPolicy Evaluation Research Unit
At PERU, we believe that evaluation and research play an important role in human flourishing. For us, relationships are a core research theme, and methodological innovation is our core expertise. We hold these in critical tension to ensure we remain true to the demanding nature of social reality.
Latest Outputs
Using Digital Technology to Improve Learning
Systematic Review & Rapid Evidence Assessment
1 April 2019
EEF guidance report is designed to support senior leaders and teachers to make better-informed decisions based on the best available evidence we currently have.
A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the effectiveness of remote supervision and new technologies in managing probation service users
Criminal Justice,Systematic Review & Rapid Evidence Assessment
13 March 2019
Examining the effectiveness of remote supervision approaches and emerging new technologies to manage probation service users and assist with their desistance from further offending.
Implementing Innovative Social Investment
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
12 March 2019
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in early childhood.
Evaluating outcome-based payment programmes: challenges for evidence-based policy
12 February 2019
We review the state of evaluation within outcome-based commissioning in the United Kingdom.
Social Impact Bonds: More Than One Approach
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
8 January 2019
A look at how social impact bonds differ between projects and geographies, and how those differences impact practical implementation.
