This Perspective explores the potential impacts that digital technologies may have on the nature of civic engagement and political processes, providing an overview of the opportunities and risks associated with the use of these technologies.
Through a targeted literature review and comparative analysis, this report examines the transferable lessons that can be drawn from evaluations of gang interventions and applied to the development of evaluation practice in the field of counter violent extremism (CVE), where robust and rigorous evaluations are not yet the norm. It also demonstrates that in some areas, CVE research might offer useful insights to inform future gang evaluations.
RAND Europe and the University of Manchester explored the role played by the dark web in fuelling and/or facilitating the worldwide illegal arms trade. The overall aim was to estimate the size and scope of the trade in firearms and related products on cryptomarkets, including the number of dark web markets listing firearms and related products, and the range and type of firearms and related products advertised and sold on cryptomarkets.
A subset of the Open Science movement includes the increased involvement of amateur scientists in the various stages of the scientific research process, and is called 'citizen science.' This publication explores the definitions, opportunities and challenges for citizen science.
This proof-of-concept study uses stated preference discrete choice experiments to explore and quantify how the British public value key dimensions of a future relationship with Europe, including freedom of movement for holidays, freedom of movement for working and living, contributions to the EU, free trade with other countries, access to the EU single market for goods and services and sovereignty.
Knowledge of the public stance on different characteristics of the future relationship with the EU will give negotiators some indication of which trade-offs are likely to satisfy the public's preferences.
Community hospitals can provide effective care and are valued by patients and their families, but there is limited evidence to understand these benefits against the costs of community hospitals.
This Perspective explores the ways in which the growth of digital technology is impacting education and skills.
This paper examines various aspects of the use of bibliometric information by members of award selection panels, based on interviews with ten panel members from three NIHR panels, alongside analysis of the information provided to those panels.
RAND Europe and the University of Manchester have been commissioned to conduct a study to examine the potential of innovation to respond to the challenges the NHS faces, and to help deliver value for money, efficient and effective services.
This report presents the findings of an analytical study prepared by RAND Europe for the Committee of Budgetary Control of the European Parliament which focuses on European Union programme funding in the field of democracy and rule of law .
This is the final report of an evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme, which issued grants between 2004 and 2014 to organisations helping migrants to gain access to justice and services. The report presents findings about the Programme's impacts on law, policy and practice in Ireland, and the lessons that might be drawn for other grantmakers, grantees, policymakers, researchers and academics working in this field.
The Office of Health Economics and RAND Europe were commissioned by the Oxford BRC to undertake a programme of top-down evaluations of aspects of the impact of the BRC. This programme of research has looked at the health, economic and scientific impact of Oxford BRC's research activity.
The report summarises the existing evidence on the effectiveness of workplace related preventive health programmes, outlining the challenges involved in calculating their return on investment (ROI). The report outlines the drivers of successful workplace health promotion programmes and develops a framework to analyse the ROI of such projects.
An overview of the current landscape of DLT/Blockchain developments and the issues that are central to the development of DLT/Blockchain.
The report summarises the key findings from an evidence synthesis completed by the University of Cambridge and RAND.
This report deals with the regulation of logistics infrastructures in Brazil, focusing in particular on the federal level. Brazil, one of the key emerging economies in the world, has a particular need for developing logistics infrastructures. Past initiatives, however, have suffered from a lack of strategic perspective and from poor regulatory capacity. This report argues for a renewed focus on regulatory governance and regulatory capacity.
This infographic sets out the results from a survey of researchers in the UK around expectations for international mobility.
This infographic sets out the results from a survey of researchers around mobility to and from the UK.
This infographic sets out the results from a survey of researchers in the UK around the reasons for international mobility.
This infographic sets out the existing evidence from the literature around the key drivers of international mobility of researchers.
This infographic sets out the existing evidence from the literature around experiences of international mobility among postdoctoral researchers, women and elite scientists.
This infographic sets out the existing evidence from the literature around the importance of the international mobility of researchers to the UK and UK-based researchers.
This infographic sets out the existing evidence from the literature around the benefits of international mobility of researchers to both source and destination countries.
This infographic sets out the results from a survey of researchers in the UK around barriers for international mobility.
