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
Mentoring: Can you get too much of a ‘good thing’? Proposing enhancements to the ‘effectiveness framework’ of the England and Wales Prison and Probation Service
3 July 2021
Using data from the Social Finance UK Database and focusing on SIBs in the US and UK, Olson et al. evaluate whether the SIB approach aligns with the theoretical predictions of social innovation.
A Rapid Evidence Assessment To Assess The Outcomes Of Community And Custody Delivered Vocational Training And Employment Programmes On Reoffending
Criminal Justice,Systematic Review & Rapid Evidence Assessment
10 June 2021
Rapid Evidence Assessment finds that vocational training and employment programmes were associated with 9 percent fewer programme participants reoffending, when compared with nonparticipants. Studies conducted in the UK were associated with 6 percent fewer programme participants reoffending.
Evaluation of Whole School SEND (WSS) Review: A cluster randomised controlled trial
31 March 2021
Protocol for a two-arm parallel cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Making Sense of Information and Evidence for Co-Creation
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
22 March 2021
A blog for the H2020 project CoSIE, reflecting on ways to navigate tensions between differing views on good information and reliable evidence.
Cycling Societies Innovations, Inequalities and Governance
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
18 March 2021
Emerging debates and questions around cycling
Pandemic, Online Learning and its Impact on Migrant Children in the UK
Systematic Review & Rapid Evidence Assessment
17 March 2021
Migrant communities faced stark social and educational inequalities in the UK even before the lockdown and it is anticipated that the pandemic will have only exacerbated these.
