Using evidence: How research can inform public services
Sandra M. Nutley
Abstract
This book provides a contribution to understanding and enhancing evidence use. It draws together current knowledge about how research is used and how this can be encouraged and improved. In particular, the authors explore various multidisciplinary frameworks for understanding the research use agenda; consider how research use and the impact of research can be assessed; summarise the empirical evidence from the education, health care, social care, and criminal justice fields about how research is used and how this can be improved; and draw out practical issues that need to be addressed if resea ... More
Keywords: evidence, research, education, health care, social care, criminal justice, public services
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9781861346650 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861346650.001.0001 |
