This UK report explores what can be drawn from the advances across a range of fields to mobilise research knowledge more effectively across social policy and practice.

Restorative justice has been enthusiastically embraced in many justice systems as an alternative to incarceration for young adult and Indigenous offenders. But how well does it work?

The Northern Territory National Emergency Response Intervention (the Intervention) of 2007 was a bold experiment by the Howard Government. The Intervention was developed quickly without comprehensive policy development based on evidence or consultation. During its five-year statutory life (ending August 2012), the absence of coherent policy logic has seen the Intervention fundamentally reframed by the...

This article focuses on the operational aspects of evidence-based policy - what does it mean for public sector agents ‘to do’ evidence-based policy, or at least to improve its quality?

This report summarises the outputs from a series of four seminars held at the Institute for Government between February and May 2012, organised in collaboration with the Alliance for Useful Evidence and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.