All our trials soon described

Events

Medical School presentation

Professor Delbert Elliott, director of the Center for the Study of Prevention and Violence and...

US Study Tour

A group of British and American policy makers is about to embark on a Social Research Unit study...

Social and emotional learning seminar

A Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, who for a...

For head teachers and policy makers in Birmingham

Speakers included Roger Weissberg, president of the Academic, Social and Emotional Learning...

Center for Social Policy summer seminar

The Center For Social Policy completed its summer seminar series. Topics covered the prediction...

For local policy makers

A seminar was held for head teachers, education welfare staff, and local policy makers to...

Annual Lecture 2009

This year's annual lecture took place in London, at the Commonwealth Club. Guest speakers...

Annual Lecture 2009

The Social Research Unit will host it's annual lecture at the Royal Commonwealth Club on July...

picture/video

Young Boston photojournalist Maisie Crow won the prestigious UK Ian Parry Award earlier in the summer with a portfolio of pictures about the life of a vulnerable teenager called "Autumn" seen here art home with friends and relatives in south-east Ohio.

How to get evidence-based programmes successfully embedded in children’s services systems is the theme of a Unit presentation later this month in York, UK.

The paper at the fourth annual conference on randomised controlled trials (RCTs) draws on our work in Birmingham, where the city council has funded the evaluation of three evidence-based programmes: the PATHS social-emotional learning curriculum and the Incredible Years and Triple-P parenting programmes.

We will be describing methods for adapting and evaluating the programmes, focusing on steps taken to ensure that they work in real-world settings and that the evaluations generate results of use to local policy makers.

The trial designs have been adapted to make them more manageable (and fundable), and the programmes have been adapted to make them ‘system ready’. A parallel programme of work is designed to make the system more ‘programme ready’.

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