What Works Now?

What Works Now? An introduction ~ Annette Boaz, Huw Davies, Alec Fraser and Sandra Nutley;


Section one: Policy and practice as arenas for evidence;


Evidence and policy making ~ Paul Cairney;


Evidence and service delivery ~ Graham P. Martin and Oli Williams;


Section two: Fields of policy and practice intervention;


Using evidence in health and healthcare ~ Paul Wilson and Trevor A. Sheldon;


Using evidence in social care ~ Deborah Ghate and Rick Hood;


Using evidence in criminal justice ~ Nicholas R. Fyfe and Gloria Laycock;


Using evidence in education ~ Julie Nelson and Carol Campbell;


Using evidence in environmental and sustainability issues ~ Mark Reed and Laura Meagher;


Using evidence in international development ~ Ruth Stewart;


Section three: Knowing and doing: some cross-cutting themes;


Systematic approaches to generating evidence ~ Alec Fraser and Huw Davies;


Assessing and labelling evidence ~ Sandra Nutley, Huw Davies and Judith Hughes;


Using evidence ~ Annette Boaz and Sandra Nutley;


Section four: International comparison and commentary;


Using evidence in the UK ~ Jonathan Breckon & David Gough;


Using evidence in Australia and New Zealand ~ Brian Head and Michael Di Francesco;


Using evidence in Scandinavia ~ Anne Mette Moller, Kari Tove Elvbakken and Hanne Foss Hansen;


Using evidence in Canada ~ Bev Holmes and Sharon Straus;


Using evidence in the US ~ Vivian Tseng and Cynthia Coburn;


Conclusions: lessons from the past; prospects for the future ~ Huw Davies, Annette Boaz, Sandra Nutley, Alec Fraser.