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
New book on Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course
Education, Childhood & Youth,Economic Analysis & Modelling
30 March 2022
This book draws upon perspectives from across the globe, employing an interdisciplinary life course approach.
Social Innovation and Co-creation in Smallscale Renewable Energy: an Asset-based Approach
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
30 December 2021
This paper makes a novel contribution by turning an ‘asset’ lens onto social and technical innovation in the context of the small-scale generation of renewable energy.
Co-Creating Rehabilitation: Findings From a Pilot and Implications for Wider Public Service Reform
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
28 December 2021
As part of a large pan-European project on co-creating public services we supported the design of a programme in England that attempted to operationalise research on desistance, through a model of co-created, strengths-based working. We then evaluated its implementation and impact.
‘Good stories get lost in bureaucracy!’
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
3 November 2021
Cultural biases and information for co-production
A New Agenda for Co-Creating Public Services
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
5 October 2021
This paper draws together key findings from CoSIE with a particular focus on what these imply for new policy and practice in public services in the form of a discussion paper aimed at European, national and regional policy-makers.
A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the impact of probation caseloads on reducing recidivism and other probation outcomes
Criminal Justice,Systematic Review & Rapid Evidence Assessment
26 July 2021
Rapid Evidence Assessment finds a growing body of evidence that lower probation caseloads have a positive impact in terms of reducing reoffending in the USA.
