Publications: Evaluation for Better Performance

Views of Commissioners, Managers and Healthcare Professionals on the NHS Health Check Programme: A Systematic Review

This is the first study to systematically synthesise data concerning the views of commissioners, managers and healthcare professionals on the National Health Service Health Check programme.

Katie Mills, Emma Harte, Adam Martin, Calum MacLure, Simon Griffin, J. Mant, Catherine Meads, Catherine L. Saunders, Fiona Walter, Juliet A. Usher-Smith

Innovative Methods and Procedures to Assess Counter-violent-radicalisation Techniques in Europe

We found that IMPACT Europe's main result is a more robust and quasi-standardised mode of measuring effectiveness, broadly defining and evaluating programmes and interventions.

Jean-Luc Marret, Jacopo Bellasio, Helma Berg, van den Berg, Anke Van Gorp, Dianne Dianne van Hemert, Liliana Leone, Rozetta Meijer, Richard Warnes, Ron van Wonderen

A review of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council

This report details evidence input into the Review of the Research Grants Council, the Hong Kong agency responsible for distribution of research funding through competitive grants.

Sarah Parks, Catriona Manville, Katherine Stewart, Louise Lepetit, Marie-Louise Henham, Miaoqing Yang, Joanna Chataway

Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care and the Vanguard Initiative: Learning from Evaluation of the Southern Cluster

Three Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) vanguards, aiming to improve UEC services, have progressed, driven by funding, status, leadership and support for joint working. Public engagement, workforce and data interoperability challenges need addressing.

Sonja Marjanovic, Bryn Garrod, Talitha Dubow, Emma Pitchforth, Catherine A. Lichten, Julian Elston, Emma Harte, Jon Sussex, Miaoqing Yang, Fahd Malik, Richard Lewis, Tom Ling

Building our Connected Society: Findings from the 2017 Thought Leadership programme

This report summarises the key themes that emerged from four thought leadership sessions on the UK's connected society, along with recommended actions moving forward for the UK government, industries, the third sector and the public.

Civic engagement: How can digital technologies underpin citizen-powered democracy?

The report provides an overview of an expert consultation on how digital technologies can be used to support citizen-powered democracy. It identifies key opportunities, risks and aspirations, as well as emerging ideas for delivering on this vision.

Talitha Dubow, Axelle Devaux, Christian Van Stolk, Catriona Manville

Civic Engagement: How Can Digital Technology Encourage Greater Engagement in Civil Society?

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.

Talitha Dubow, Axelle Devaux, Catriona Manville

Comparative Scientometric Assessment of the Results of ERC Funded Projects: Alternative Metrics Report (D7)

The altmetric analysis examined social media visibility and usage in online bibliographic management tools (Mendeley) of ERC-funded papers.

Vincent Larivière, Tim Bowman, Jean-Pierre Robitaille, Alexandra Pollitt, Salil Gunashekar, Benoît Macaluso

Comparative Scientometric Assessment of the Results of ERC Funded Projects: Peer-review Evaluation of Highly Ranked Publications from Scientometric Assessment (D8)

The qualitative element of the study took a small sample from the top 1% of highly cited papers and, through an online survey, asked expert peer reviewers to assess each paper's overall contribution to its field. Reviewers were also asked to comment on the characteristics that might have led to the paper becoming highly cited or attracting social media attention. It should be noted that this part of the study did not look at all ERC-funded research, instead considering a small sample of publications (95 reviews of 56 "top" papers). As such the analysis cannot be considered representative of the wider body of ERC-supported work.

Alexandra Pollitt, Salil Gunashekar, Gavin Cochrane, Vincent Larivière

Comparative Scientometric Assessment of the Results of ERC Funded Projects: Patent Analysis Report (D6)

The patent analysis looked at the inventive activity associated with ERC funding.

Vincent Larivière, Alexandra Pollitt, Salil Gunashekar

Comparative Scientometric Assessment of the Results of ERC Funded Projects: Bibliometric Assessment Report (D5)

The bibliometric analysis examined the research productivity and scientific impact of ERC-funded researchers, as well as patterns of collaboration and interdisciplinarity.

Benoît Macaluso, Alexandra Pollitt, Salil Gunashekar, Vincent Larivière

Evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme

This report presents findings from an evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme, which provided grants to organisations supporting migrants. It looks at the impacts achieved in law, policy and practice in Ireland.

Emma Disley, Daniel Schweppenstedde, Emily Scraggs, Jennifer Rubin, Ben Baruch