MOJ Experimentation and Evaluation Fellowship ESRC Policy Fellowship
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Greenwich
Department Name: Natural Resources Institute, FES
Abstract
Each fellowship will last up to 18 months to cover a three-month inception phase for
set up activity, followed by a 6-12-month placement with the host organisation, and
concluding with an impact phase lasting up to three months.
Fellows will co-design projects and activities with their host and produce analysis to
inform government decision-making across a range of policy priorities. Fellows will
also engage across the host organisation, building effective working relationships and
supporting wider knowledge exchange with researchers. This will be supported
through their embedded role within the host organisation, including line management
support.
set up activity, followed by a 6-12-month placement with the host organisation, and
concluding with an impact phase lasting up to three months.
Fellows will co-design projects and activities with their host and produce analysis to
inform government decision-making across a range of policy priorities. Fellows will
also engage across the host organisation, building effective working relationships and
supporting wider knowledge exchange with researchers. This will be supported
through their embedded role within the host organisation, including line management
support.
| Description | One of the biggest impediments to adopting social innovations (design thinking practices) is the absence of consistent scientific methods to rapidly test what works for people. I developed a systematic and comprehensive framework to facilitate rapid early tests of what works for people so that the policy/delivery team either adapts the intervention or pivots to a different idea, minimising the risk of failure at the later stage of innovation. The methods compendium may serve as guidance to social innovators, practitioners, design thinkers, and policymakers. I have also developed a method paper on adaptive stepped wedged randomised trial for evaluating social justice policy. This method is useful in evaluating the overall effect of increasing the intensity of intervention/ refined intervention through prototyping. |
| Exploitation Route | The methods compendium can help make a decision on appropriate methods that could be used to facilitate rapid early testing of what works for people. The paper on adaptive stepped wedged randomised trial is useful in evaluating the overall effect of increasing the intensity of intervention/ refined intervention through prototyping. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Government Democracy and Justice |
| Description | The methods compendium I developed are being used by colleagues from Evaluation and Prototyping Hub. This method paper on adaptive stepped wedged randomised trial is also being used by colleagues in the Evaluation and Prototyping Hub in evaluating the overall effect of increasing the intensity of intervention/ refined intervention through prototyping. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |