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
The Economic Inefficiency of Student Fees and Loans
Education, Childhood & Youth,Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
3 May 2017
In this report, published by the Intergenerational Foundation, Kevin argues that the benefits of a young person getting a higher education qualification in England accrue in the ratio 58% to the nation and 42% to the graduate.
English and Welsh experience of marketisation
Criminal Justice,Systematic Review & Rapid Evidence Assessment
2 May 2017
Payment by results and justice devolution in the probation sector
A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the effectiveness of prison education
23 March 2017
A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the effectiveness of prison education in reducing recidivism and increasing employment
The ethical challenges of evidence-based policy research
Criminal Justice,Systematic Review & Rapid Evidence Assessment
14 February 2017
In Research Ethics in Criminology: Dilemmas, Issues and Solutions (Edited by Cowburn, Gelsthorpe and Wahidin)
Operationalising desistance through personalisation
25 January 2017
This article reports on the early stages of a project to develop a model of offender rehabilitation that operationalises the concept of desistance.
