Parliamentarians need tools to find and use evidence that will inform their work and hold their government to account. Robust opposition is vital to question and debate decisions and encourage the provision of more substantial evidence, ensuring the long-term sustainability of policies.
Across the country, local governments are collecting valuable information on their region’s challenges, and the solutions that work and don’t work. But these data sets are not yet fully comparable, reducing policymakers’ ability to learn from one another and make the most of their devolved powers.
Andrew Plume, Tian Mahony and Joanna Chataway IPPO is an interdisciplinary initiative established to inform policy with rigorous evidence. It follows therefore that the question of how evidence impacts policy is an important area of interest. This blog adds to reflections from a seminar series that IPPO has organized on the theme of ‘innovations on making evidence useful’ and to other pieces of writing on this website on the topic of how we think about the relationship between evidence and policy. This blog in particular considers whether economics is particularly influential. More...
During our recent event on Translating Lived Experience to Policy, we dove into the processes and values behind translating qualitative research and lived experience evidence into policy development, and how you can influence decision-makers with this kind of evidence.
