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- How To Design And Plan Public Engagement Processes: A Handbook
- Building the Community Economy in Scotland: Frameworks to support learning and action
- Reflections on the What Works Scotland initiative
- Strengthening Community Councils: Exploring how they can contribute to democratic renewal in Scotland
- Participation and representation: Strengthening the third sector voice in local governance
- At the frontier of collaborative and participatory governance: Eight key discussions to support putting Christie into practice – reflective learning with practitioners from Aberdeenshire CPP
- Collaborative Action Research and public services – insights into methods, findings and implications for public service reform
- Exploring perceived opportunities and challenges of Participation Requests in Scotland
- Policy briefing – Mainstreaming participatory budgeting: What works in building foundations for a more participatory democracy?
- Public Service Leadership: What Works?
- Community Planning after the Community Empowerment Act: The Second Survey of Community Planning Officials in Scotland
- Facilitation training – new skills to facilitate collaboration
- Policy briefing – Evaluability Assessment: A collaborative approach to planning evaluations
- Universal basic income – A scoping review of evidence on impacts and study characteristics
- An outcome-focused evaluation of High Life: Highland’s Falls Prevention Programme
- Submission to Locality’s Inquiry: Keeping It Local Call for Evidence
- Making data meaningful: Evidence use in a community planning partnership in Scotland
- Policy briefing: Public service leadership: What works?
- Policy briefing: Public service leadership: Rethinking leadership for collaborative settings
- Action Research in Policy Analysis: ‘Sanction and sanctuary’ in Scottish collaborative governance
- Policy briefing: Exploring the roles of community anchor organisations in public service reform and social change
- Hope for Democracy: Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
- The Operation Modulus Approach: further lessons for public service reform
- Educational needs and experiences of refugee children in Scotland
- Resettlement of Syrian Refugees in West Dunbartonshire
- Transforming communities? Exploring the roles of community anchor organisations in public service reform, local democracy, community resilience and social change
- Community Planning Officials Survey: Understanding the everyday work of local participatory governance in Scotland
- Inquiring into Multi-layered, Preventative Partnership
- Building Connections: Co-locating advice services in general practices and job centres
- Insights from ‘Your Community’ – a place-based approach to public service reform
- ‘Hard to reach’ or ‘easy to ignore’? Promoting equality in community engagement – Evidence review
- Urban neighbourhoods: Five ways to make a difference
- Response to Scottish Government socio-economic duty consultation
- Response to Citizenship and Civic Engagement Committee consultation
- What Do Citizens Want?
- Tackling Child Poverty: Actions to Prevent and Mitigate Child Poverty at the Local Level
- Evaluation of Police and Fire Reform
- Economic Regeneration in Scotland: Past Lessons, Current Practice, Future Challenges
- What Works in Public Service Leadership: Exploring the Potential
- Pioneering Collaborative Leadership: A Facilitated Approach for Learning in Action
- Outcomes-based Approaches to Public Service Reform: Event Report
- Actions to prevent and mitigate child poverty in South Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership
- Public service reform and participatory budgeting: How can Scotland learn from international evidence?
- Local solutions to local problems: innovation in public participation
- Glasgow’s Participatory Budgeting Evaluation Toolkit
- Fife Collaborative Action Research – Second Home Retreat: Critical reflections and lessons on implementation
- Fife Collaborative Action Research Programme: An overview of the process
- Reflections and Learning from the Fife Collaborative Action Research Programme 2015-2017
- Collaborative Action Research Report: Fife Partnership Innovation Team exploring the Family Fun Model
- Collaborative Inquiry Exploring Data and Knowledge-sharing Practices in Responses to Welfare Sanctions
- Collaborative action research report: Working in partnership to support students with additional needs
- Thriving Places case studies
- Outcomes Based Approaches in Public Service Reform
- Evaluability Assessment of Thriving Places: a Report for Glasgow Community Planning Partnership
- Fun, Food, Folk: The Centrestage approach to dignified food provision
- How to Design Collaborative Action Research
- Exploring collaborative learning, research and action in public service reform: Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Change Fund Beyond Action Learning initiative
- Reflecting on what works in developing authentic relationships in complex settings
- Learning about community capacity-building from the Community Links Worker approach in Insch, Aberdeenshire (2013-16): a collaborative action research inquiry (cycle 1)
- What Works in Community Profiling? Initial reflections from the WWS project in West Dunbartonshire
- Review of First Generation Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
- National Standards for Community Engagement
- Third sector participation and representation in East Lothian
- Rationales for Place-based Approaches in Scotland
- “Challenge current practice and assumptions! Make waves!!” What Works Scotland Collaborative Learning Event
- Scoping Report from the Aberdeenshire CPP and What Works Scotland’s Collaborative Learning Day 8 December 2015
- Creating effective partnerships to deliver public services
- Community-led Action Planning Day event report. West Dunbartonshire, October 2015
- Collaborative Action Research Fife Home Retreat Report
- Collaborative Action Retreat Report – Summary of retreat held in June 2015
- Perspectives on Improvement and Effectiveness: Key Definitions and Concepts
- Perspectives on Knowledge into Action in education and public service reform: A review of relevant literature and an outline framework for change
- The Cost of School Holidays
- Operation Modulus: putting Christie into practice in the Gorbals
- Practising Collaborative Leadership: Reflection and Learning from the Enabling Collaborative Leadership Pioneer Programme
- 29th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement – State of the Art Briefings
- Evidence to Action in public service delivery: an overview of What Works Scotland knowledge partners
- Reimagining Community Planning in Scotland: A Vision from the Third Sector
- Supporting Collaborative Action Research: Developing a more systematic approach
- Evaluability Assessment: a systematic approach to deciding whether and how to evaluate programmes and policies
- Timeline for development of Scottish Government’s ‘National Performance Framework’ and outcomes
- Timeline for development of Community Planning in Scotland
- Getting evidence into action to improve Scotland’s public services
- Synthetic controls: a new approach to evaluating interventions
- What can the capabilities approach add to policy analysis in high-income countries?
- Community Anchors
- Policy making: Does anyone care?
- The Political Economy of Local Tax Reform
- What Works and learning from failure
- The emerging Scottish model: avoiding everything becoming nothing
- Partnership working across UK public services
- Scaling-up Innovations
- The Cost of the Cuts: a social impact tool
- Community Planning – Maximising Potential
- Changing Lives, Delivering Success
- Report to Scottish Parliament Finance Committee
- Blog: In search of effective collaborative challenge for a more equitable society
- Blog: Tackling inequalities by supporting ‘enterprising’ communities
- Blog: Community-led activity: time to invest in expansion
- Blog: Extending the community sector inquiry through a cross-sector learning community?
- Blog: Tackling health inequalities means more than service reform and design
- Participatory budgeting in Scotland: an overview of strategic design choices and principles for effective delivery
- Blog: Community social enterprises: innovators in public service reform?
- Blog: Third sector leadership – the promise of collective accounts of leadership
- Blog: Changing alcohol culture – developing our LOIP priority and what we’ve learnt about partnership working
- Blog: Knowing How – Putting Research into Practice
- Blog: Mapping the frontiers of collaborative governance
- Blog: Continuing to learn from international experiences of participatory budgeting
- Blog: The future of joined-up working and integration in Scotland – Time to concentrate on collaborative practice?
- Blog: Reflections on the welfare inquiry experience – Building and enhancing partnership working
- Blog: Digging deep and getting dirty hands! Doing collaborative action research with public services
- Blog: Meeting change-makers – connecting research and the ‘real world’
- Blog: Facilitative Leadership – Involving citizens and communities in local decision-making
- Blog: Asset-Based Community Development – Sustainable development is about discoverables; not deliverables
- Blog: How can place-based approaches be used in rural Scotland?
- Blog: Can asset-based community development help to address health inequalities?
- Blog: Positive conversations, meaningful change – learning from Animating Assets
- Blog: Getting evidence into action – how can we understand what we already know?
- Blog: Messy collaboration
- Blog: In an era of killer sound-bites how can researchers and policy makers close the gap between complexity and simplicity?
- Blog: Why Place?
- Blog: Making data meaningful in West Dunbartonshire
- Blog: Participation and representation in Scotland’s third sector interfaces – a new model?
- Blog: Time for change – a delegate’s response to Community-led Approaches to Reducing Poverty
- Blog: What is the future of ‘doing good’ in the UK?
- Blog: Systems thinking – Re-imagining public services to tackle inequality
- Blog: Scotland and international experiences of scaling-up participatory budgeting
- Blog: Community-led Approaches to Reducing Poverty
- Blog: “Challenge current practice and assumptions! Make waves!!” – Findings from a Collaborative Action Research learning event
- Blog: Co-production – I believe in Unicorns after all, they are Scotland’s National animal!
- Blog: What key Evidence to Action resources are available for public service reform?
- Blog: The 2016 Alliance Conference and the Politics of Possibility
- Blog: A backstage pass – Operation Modulus and the case study approach
- Blog: Health and Social Care Integration – seeking the ‘space’ and commitment to support complex local partnership-working
- Blog: Collaboration, Control and Choice in a Person Centred Scotland
- Blog: Understanding and utilising social security sanctions data at the local level
- Blog: Creating effective partnerships to deliver public services
- Blog: Getting Knowledge into Action in Fife
- Blog: People making a difference in communities … a participatory cross-sector conference
- Blog: Community Anchors and Opportunities for Locally-led Public Service Reform
- Blog: Decision Making – Does Anyone Care?
- Blog: Scotland Welcomes Refugees – How do strangers become citizens?
- Blog: Engaging with the Edges
- Blog: Taking A Distributed Perspective to Leading & Managing
- Blog: The National Standards for Community Engagement – Back to the Future
- Blog: Health and social care integration: Sharing learning across the North Sea
- Blog: Governing with the people
- Blog: Reforming services – the example of refugee support
- Blog: A democratic future for community planning?
- Blog: Think YES? How to deliver transformational change in relationships between staff, managers and local people
- Blog: Local Government Finance
- Blog: What Works Centre for Wellbeing – Call out for stakeholder engagement
- Blog: The economics of prevention: ways of seeing
- Blog: People make Partnerships
- Blog: Why and how ‘what works’ is important for Scotland
- Blog: I can’t believe it’s not better
- Blog: Co-production: Do we know what it is and what it achieves?
- Blog: Can we tackle poverty by changing how we talk about it?
- Blog: Closing the commissioning gap: Supporting community and social enterprise through participatory budgeting
- Blog: Asset Based Community Development: Focusing on what matters
- Blog: What’s the Matter with Asset-Based Community Development?
- Blog: Democratic evaluation for the 21st Century
- Blog: The Economics of Prevention and Difficult Decisions for Community Planning Partnerships in Scotland
- Blog: Looking back on Community Planning Partnerships – Policy reunion
- Blog: ‘What Works’ in Raising Educational Standards? Learning Lessons and Rising to the ‘Challenge’
- Blog: Democratic Sector Day
- Blog: Better Place – Communities, Citizens and Consumers & New Approaches to Social Policy & Public Services
- Blog: Shifting public services to focus on prevention: Impediments & implications
- Blog: What might the Capabilities approach bring to public service reform in Scotland?
- Blog: ‘Fractals’, Community Planning and Placed-based Policy Geography in West Dunbartonshire
- Blog: Meet the WWS staff, Research Fellows Richard Brunner and Claire Bynner
- Blog: Review of The Whitehall Effect
- Blog: Beyond cynicism and complacency – Participatory budgeting in Scotland
- Blog: Creating an Evidence Bank for Public Service Reform
- Blog: What Works in Fife?
- Blog: Working with What Works Scotland
- Blog: What Works Scotland and the Housing Sector
- Blog: Giving communities their place
- Blog: Why Can’t We Trust the Word ‘Welfare’ in Policy Making?
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- The Scottish approach to public service reform: lessons from What Works Scotland – seminar
- Children and young people: using research and evidence to make change happen
- Effective leadership and networked governance: Public service and community leadership – What works and why?
- Research for Change – Beyond What Works
- Webinar: Transforming communities? Exploring the roles of community anchor organisations in public service reform – supporting, leading and challenging?
- Empowering People and Places: What Works?
- Webinar: Participatory budgeting and its potential for community empowerment and social justice
- Britain after Brexit: the political and economic choices ahead
- Research, collaboration and inspection: towards a research-informed system
- Evidence to Action: what works for public service reform
- Experiences of refugee resettlement in Scotland
- Peer learning opportunity between What Works Scotland and Jam and Justice Action Research Co-operative (Greater Manchester)
- The potential of community anchor organisations to engage with, lead and challenge the reform of public services in Scotland
- ‘Disinvestment’, or ‘freeing up’ resources for reinvestment?
- Report launch: Key findings from the Survey of Community Planning Officials in Scotland
- Taking a Deliberative Approach to Complexity: What can we learn from the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit?
- Why Attitudes to Poverty Matter: What the Evidence Says
- A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services
- Co-production and Public Service Reform
- Hard-to-reach or easy-to-ignore? A review of evidence about equality in community engagement launch
- Leadership, Collaboration and Public Service Reform – What Works?
- Poverty, schools and inequality: reducing the cost of the school day
- Naomi Eisenstadt lecture – Review of the Life Chances of Young People
- Preventing and mitigating child poverty
- People, Prejudice and Planning: Community-based responses to promoting equality and tackling hate
- Book launch – The People’s Verdict: Adding Informed Citizen Voices to Public Decision-Making
- What Works in Economic Regeneration?
- Outcomes-based Approaches in Public Service Reform
- Public service reform, scrutiny and inspection: Where to next?
- Prevention and Prediction: Can we predict the impacts of prevention to inform policy and practice?
- ‘Fun, Food, Folk’: The Centrestage approach to dignified food provision
- Community-led Approaches to Reducing Poverty: A Review of Evidence and Practice
- International Experiences in Participatory Budgeting: A Session with Giovanni Allegretti
- Locked Out, Locked In: Young People, Adulthood and Desistance from Crime
- Exploring evidence, tools and strategies to expand the scope of prevention in public services
- Designing Public Policy for Co-production: Theory, Practice and Change
- Setting Priorities in Health and Social Care Integration: Economic and Provider Perspectives
- Creating Effective Partnerships to Deliver Public Services seminar
- Getting Knowledge into Action in Fife
- Inclusion Scotland Roadshows: Have your say on what disability research should focus on
- Battle of Ideas: The Referendum One Year On – a healthcheck on democracy
- Policy-making: Does Anyone Care?
- People Making a Difference in Communities Conference
- What Works Scotland at Explorathon
- Innovation and Equity: Working Together for Educational Change
- Distributed Leadership: Theory, Principle and Practice
- What Works Wellbeing – Community Evidence Programme Workshop
- The Populist Signal: Why Politics and Democracy Need to Change
- NHS Scotland Local Intelligence Support Team: Autumn Gathering
- Promoting the ‘Human’ in Human Rights
- Marginalisation, Stigma and Choice
- Policy Reunion: National Standards for Community Engagement
- Participation Week Launch event – Participation and Citizen Ownership: The Challenge for Government
- Participation Week – Participation: What Works?
- Co-production of Public Services: Design and Innovation
- Keyword: Partnership
- Economics of Prevention – Policing, Early years, Housing, Smoking in pregnancy
- Public Service Reform in Health and Social Care: Norwegian and Scottish experiences
- Making Better Decisions? Using Citizens’ Juries in Scotland
- Using Evidence to Develop Public Services
- The Economics of Prevention – Community planning and health
- Policy Reunion: Community Planning Partnerships
- Democratic Sector Day
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