What Works Scotland

What Works Scotland

Supporting effective public services in Scotland

Menu

  • Home
  • Key messages about PSR
  • Publications & resources
  • Case sites
    • Aberdeenshire
      • Stories from the coalface: Exploring what it means to work together in Aberdeenshire
    • Fife
    • Glasgow
      • Generating case study evidence in Glasgow’s Thriving Places
      • Evaluating the impact of participatory budgeting
      • Collaborative dissertations in Thriving Places
    • West Dunbartonshire
    • Our learning partners
  • Topics
  • Events
    • Past events
  • About us
    • Our impact
    • People
    • Our partners
    • Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland
    • Our approach to collaborative action research
      • Conducting CAR with public services: insights from the research process
    • Our workplan
      • Evidence Bank
    • Sign up for the newsletter
    • Most recent newsletter
    • Contact us

What Works Scotland

Blog: Why and how ‘what works’ is important for Scotland

As chief researcher at the Scottish Government, Zoe Ferguson was instrumental in establishing What Works Scotland. in June 2015 she reflected on the journey so far.

Emma Baird July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Working with What Works Scotland

Francesca Ainsworth, Sophie Humphries and Ally Macleod from Aberdeenshire Council highlight their plans for working with What Works Scotland in December 2014.

Emma Baird July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Creating an Evidence Bank for Public Service Reform

Karen Seditas and Sarah Morton share details of the What Works Scotland Evidence Bank being developed from January 2015 to support the use of evidence in public service reform.

Emma Baird July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Meet the WWS staff, Research Fellows Richard Brunner and Claire Bynner

Mini-biographies of two of the research associates when they started working for What Works Scotland in the case study areas, West Dunbartonshire and Glasgow.

Emma Baird July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Giving communities their place

Dr Alison Elliot of the University of Edinburgh presented her thoughts at the launch of What Works Scotland on 26 June 2014, and that it represents the coming of age of the Christie proposals for transforming public services in Scotland

Emma Baird July 11, 2018 Read more

New material on participatory budgeting in Scotland and impact on health and wellbeing

A chapter in a new book about participatory budgeting world-wide examines how PB relates to public sector reform, community empowerment and social justice in Scotland.

Emma Baird July 5, 2018 2018, Oliver Escobar, participatory budgeting Read more

Blog: What Works Scotland and the Housing Sector

Ken Gibb of What Works Scotland reflects on an event focused around the enhanced delivery of the Government’s ongoing housing strategy, and how it is relevant to What Works Scotland.

Emma Baird July 2, 2018 Read more

Partners

About us

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. ...

Read more

Contact us

Got an enquiry? Please get in touch

Privacy and cookies

Please read the following page for our privacy statement and information regarding cookie consent:

Privacy and cookies

Accessibility statement

See our accessibility statement

RSS   Blog

  • What Works Scotland closed but resources still available February 18, 2020
  • Extending the community sector inquiry through a cross-sector learning community? June 5, 2019
  • Community-led activity: time to invest in expansion June 5, 2019
  • Tackling inequalities by supporting 'enterprising' communities June 5, 2019
  • Exploring community anchors, public service reform... and the wider local community sector June 5, 2019

Tags

Aberdeenshire alcohol asset-based community development CAR Christie Commission co-production collaboration Collaborative Action Research community anchors community empowerment Community Empowerment Act community planning Community Planning Partnerships community plannning community sector data democracy education evaluability assessment evaluation evidence evidence bank evidence to action Fife health inequality learning participative decision-making participatory budgeting partnership policy-making poverty prevention public service reform refugees Sarah Morton Scottish Approach Scottish Government service design third sector Thriving Places West Dunbartonshire What Works Scotland workforce young people

Social media

twitteryoutube
Logo of the University of Edinburgh Media Hopper video publishing service See our videos on Media Hopper
Copyright © 2014-2020. All rights reserved. Site published by the Interactive Content Team, Information Services, The University of Edinburgh. Sitemap.
We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience. By clicking any link on this page you are giving your consent for us to set cookies. Find out more.