Welcome: Trials in Public Policy:Training in pragmatic social interventions Explore this resource
 | Trials in Public Policy:Training in pragmatic social interventions Explore this resourceThis web resource was designed & developed to increase awareness and knowledge concerning trial-based designs (such as randomised controlled trials) for use in evaluating social and policy interventions, with a specific focus on the North East of England and surrounding areas |
Authors
People who originated and developed this resource were based in the University of York. The original authors of this resource were Stephen Gorard (PI) and Dr Carole Torgerson (Co-Investigator) who were based in the University of York. They along with the support team at York worked actively on the resource site until December 2007. The ReStore team will remain intouch with the principal investigator concerning further updates and maintenance of this resource in the future.
Original Project
This project was designed to increase awareness and knowledge concerning trial-based designs (such as randomised controlled trials) for use in evaluating social and policy interventions, with a specific focus on the North East of England and surrounding areas. We assisted students, new and established researchers, practitioners, consultancy and commercial enterprises, government departments and NGOs in the design, conduct, analysis, reporting and critique of their own trials. For more details please see
The policy areas covered by participants included criminal justice, housing, demography, health promotion, education, sociology, psychology, economics, linguistics, policy studies, women's studies, nursing, social work, information systems, food safety, and politics. We raised debates about the feasibility of trial methods for policy evaluation, created sustainable resources for those wishing to learn about or conduct trials, and linked up with international expertise and developments.
Quick Summary
"Trials in Public Policy:Training in pragmatic social interventions", supported by the ESRC RDI, aims
- To provide a resource of information to students and new researchers on methodology on trials in public policy.
- To provide and create activities through team of experts in the conduct of public policy interventions based across the UK and abroad, that include face-to-face and residential workshops, debates, internet discussions, web-based resources, published protocols in downloadable form, and methodological papers.
- Exploring the randomised controlled trial (RCT) which is thought to be a very valuable research design in assessing the effectiveness of public policy interventions
- Consider the merit of adapting an equivalent of the Consort Guidelines for reporting randomised controlled trials in social science
Rationale of the Project
This project was designed to increase awareness and knowledge concerning trial-based designs (such as randomised controlled trials) for use in evaluating social and policy interventions, with a specific focus on the North East of England and surrounding areas. We assisted students, new and established researchers, practitioners, consultancy and commercial enterprises, government departments and NGOs in the design, conduct, analysis, reporting and critique of their own trials.
The policy areas covered by participants included criminal justice, housing, demography, health promotion, education, sociology, psychology, economics, linguistics, policy studies, women's studies, nursing, social work, information systems, food safety, and politics. We raised debates about the feasibility of trial methods for policy evaluation, created sustainable resources for those wishing to learn about or conduct trials, and linked up with international expertise and developments.
The following events were organized by a team of experts, Co-investigator and project PI.
- How can we use experimental designs in social science and public policy?, University of Birmingham, 18th July 2007.
- Ethics and Archives, University of Essex, 19th September, 2008
- Workshop: Fostering scepticism
- Workshop: Analysing complex interventions
- ADHD: Screening and Intervening in Schools
Classification: | Data Quality and Data Management > Data Archiving |
Date of Restoration
This project has been restored into ReStore repository on 20/11/2010.