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
Predictors of Positive and Negative Parenting Practices Among Mothers of Two-to-Three-Year-Old Children: Findings From Tirana, Albania
Education, Childhood & Youth,Randomised Controlled Trials
30 August 2023
The purpose of this article is to determine the predictors of positive and negative parenting practices among mothers of two-to-three-year-old children in Tirana, Albania.
‘We Need to Tackle Their Well Being First’: Understanding and Supporting Care-Experienced Girls in the Youth Justice System
Criminal Justice,Surveys & Longitudinal Data
13 August 2023
This article presents novel findings from interviews with 17 girls and young women and eight Youth Offending Team (YOT) staff, highlighting how being in care can affect offending behaviour and how YOTs may provide support to care-experienced girls who have been inadequately supported elsewhere.
Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement
Criminal Justice,Surveys & Longitudinal Data
10 July 2023
This paper explores how criminalisation, care experience and motherhood may intersect to produce multi-faceted structural disadvantage within both systems of care and punishment.
Doing Gig Work – Illustrated Material Published
Incomes, Work & Poverty,Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
7 June 2023
Publication aims to raise awareness about the platform-based gig economy
A Difficult Balance: Challenges and Possibilities for Local Protocols to Reduce Unnecessary Criminalisation of Children in Care and Care Leavers
Criminal Justice,Surveys & Longitudinal Data
20 March 2023
This article explores the challenges and possibilities of using local agreements to divert children in care and care leavers away from formal justice systems contact.
TASO ‘Impact Evaluation With Small Cohorts: Methodology Guidance’ published online
23 September 2022
We have been working with TASO to develop guidance on evaluation with small cohorts and it is now available on their website. TASO’s focus is widening participation and improving student outcomes in higher education but the guidance can be applied to many areas of social policy evaluation.
