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2017

Blog: Meeting change-makers – connecting research and the ‘real world’

What helps deepen our understanding of different aspects to public sector reform? This blog by Kirsty Deacon about her 2017 internship at the Scottish Government explores u.lab online learning as a tool to help develop people’s capacity as change-makers.

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 Read more

Local solutions to local problems: innovation in public participation

Summary report that shares the findings from a trial of a ‘mini-public’ process, focussed on a community bonfire, to enable communities and public services to interact more meaningfully.

Social Sciences Communications February 6, 2018 Read more

Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland

About the Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland, a five-year project in Bridgeton and Dalmarnock in Glasgow which brings people together to do more for children and young people, which will develop and pilot a practical example of the What Works Scotland approach to place-based change.

Social Sciences Communications January 21, 2018 Read more

Insights from ‘Your Community’ – a place-based approach to public service reform

Findings from an interim evaluation of ‘Your Community’, a neighbourhood-level, place-based approach to public service reform in West Dunbartonshire, aimed at supporting communities to become more sustainable, thriving, and aspirational, and to improve service delivery.

Social Sciences Communications December 22, 2017 Read more

Collaborative dissertations in Thriving Places

Dissertations from University of Glasgow masters students who were enabled by What Works Scotland to conduct their fieldwork in Glasgow’s Thriving Places. This allows interested students to have research impact and for Thriving Places to receive useful evidence to inform future work.

Social Sciences Communications December 13, 2017 Read more

‘Hard to reach’ or ‘easy to ignore’? Promoting equality in community engagement – Evidence review

Evidence review that examines what is being done to overcome inequality in community engagement, using evidence from Scotland and the UK. Published by What Works Scotland in December 2017.

Social Sciences Communications December 7, 2017 Read more

Why Attitudes to Poverty Matter: What the Evidence Says

A policy seminar that explored how we can use evidence to challenge stereotypes and address poverty . The event was part of Challenge Poverty Week 2017.

Social Sciences Communications November 29, 2017 Read more

Conducting CAR with public services: insights from the research process

How What Works Scotland is sharing our insights and learning from working with a range of public service partners to co-produce research inquiries and processes using a collaborative action research (CAR) approach.

Social Sciences Communications November 20, 2017 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.

Social Sciences Communications 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.

Social Sciences Communications 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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