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Author: Lucy Janes

What Works Scotland resources to be available after programme ends

What Works Scotland will conclude its formal programme of work at the end of December 2018 but our resources will still be available online.

Lucy Janes November 15, 2018 2018 Read more

Three final conferences for What Works Scotland: book now!

What  Works Scotland is organising three final free conferences to share the findings of our research on public service reform.

Lucy Janes October 17, 2018 2018 Read more

What Works Scotland contributes to health and wellbeing evaluation support materials

What Works Scotland co-director Peter Craig has contributed to new evaluation support materials for health and wellbeing professionals.

Lucy Janes August 8, 2018 2018, evaluation approaches, mobilising evidence, Peter Craig Read more

What Works Scotland chapter in new book about action research and policy

A new book on action research includes a chapter by two What Works Scotland research associates, drawing on the collaborative action research projects with community planning partnerships in Scotland.

Lucy Janes July 23, 2018 2018, Claire Bynner, James Henderson Read more

Community planning officials: second survey out now

What Works Scotland has launched the second nationwide survey of people working in community planning in Scotland.

Lucy Janes May 23, 2018 2018, governance, Oliver Escobar Read more

£2 million funding for Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland

Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland will receive £2 million of funding as part of the Scottish Government’s plans to address child poverty. The programme is an innovative collaboration between What Works Scotland, Policy Scotland and Glasgow Centre for Population Health.

Lucy Janes March 29, 2018 2018, Chris Chapman Read more

Participation Requests research

What Work Scotland researchers are undertaking a small research project into policy implementation and third sector-state relations focussing on the Scottish Government’s introduction of Participation Requests as part of the Community Empowerment Act.

Lucy Janes February 19, 2018 2018, community empowerment, community empowerment, Evgeniya Plotnikova, Hayley Bennett, James Henderson, participatory decision-making Read more

Busy year ahead for What Works Scotland

2018 is the last year for What Works Scotland so we’ll be focused on drawing together the findings from the different strands of our work and spreading the word about what’s been learnt about collaborative public service reform.

Lucy Janes January 29, 2018 2018, community empowerment, mobilising evidence, supporting collaborative reform Read more

WWS keynote at Perth and Kinross Community Planning Conference

What Works Scotland research associate Dr Claire Bynner presented the keynote address at Stronger Communities, the Perth and Kinross Community Planning Conference, on Wednesday 15 November 2017.

Lucy Janes November 16, 2017 2017, Claire Bynner, community empowerment, participatory decision-making, WWS presenting Read more

Power, Health and Social Justice event at GCPH

Power, health and social justice is the focus for the next event in the Healthier Futures Forum, organised by Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) with a short presentation on How power inequalities shape policy conversations from What Works Scotland co-director Oliver Escobar.

Lucy Janes November 16, 2017 2017, community empowerment, Oliver Escobar, partner event Read more
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What Works Scotland was an initiative to improve the way local areas in Scotland use evidence to make decisions about public service development and reform. It explored how public services could start to work towards the recommendations of the Christie Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services and the Scottish Government’s priorities for reform. ...

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