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.

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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


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.

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A Rapid Evidence Assessment To Assess The Outcomes Of Community And Custody Delivered Vocational Training And Employment Programmes On Reoffending


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.

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Evaluation of Whole School SEND (WSS) Review: A cluster randomised controlled trial


Protocol for a two-arm parallel cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

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Making Sense of Information and Evidence for Co-Creation


A blog for the H2020 project CoSIE, reflecting on ways to navigate tensions between differing views on good information and reliable evidence.

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Pandemic, Online Learning and its Impact on Migrant Children in the UK


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.

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