Using Evidence to Improve social policy and practice

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Perspectives on how research and evidence can influence decision making. The essays in this book give a good flavour of the work that is underway on the cutting edge of evidence and its uses. Each, in a different way, is trying to bridge the worlds of supply and demand. And each is trying to bring greater rigour, and challenge, to fields that may think they know more than they really do.