Co-director | Data and Evaluation lead

Dr Peter Craig is a Senior Research Fellow at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow.

Peter works on the development and application of robust methods for the evaluation of policies that affect population health.

What Works Scotland publications

Evaluability assessment: An application in a complex community improvement setting

This research article in Evaluation Journal (open access) is based on What Works Scotland fieldwork. It reports on the context, the process undertaken and evidence from participants in an Evaluability Assessment (EA) facilitated with public service workers involved in implementing a complex, area-based community improvement initiative. The authors show how the process allows practitioners at all levels to identify activities for evaluation and co-produce the theory of change developed through the EA.  (June 2019) – Co-authored by Richard Brunner, Peter Craig and Nick Watson.

• Policy Briefing – Evaluability Assessment: A collaborative to planning evaluations (October 2018)
• Universal basic income – a scoping review of evidence on impacts and study characteristics (September 2018) Co-authored
• Participatory budgeting and health and wellbeing: a systematic scoping review of evaluations and outcomes Published by the Lancet (November 2017) Co-authored
• Evaluability Assessment of Thriving Places: a Report for Glasgow Community Planning Partnership (March 2017)  Co-authored
• Evaluability Assessment: a systematic approach to deciding whether and how to evaluate programmes and policies (July 2015) Co-authored
• Synthetic controls: a new approach to evaluating interventions ( March 2015)

Other publications

• Evaluation in health and wellbeing resource Published by the UK Government (August 2018) Co-authored

See more about Peter and his work on the Institute of Health and Wellbeing website.