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SUMMARY:Is evidence enough? How academics can influence policy. Dr Ellen F
 lint\, Department for Work and Pensions - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20171201T170000Z
DTEND:20171201T183000Z
UID:TALK96385@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Dr Adam Coutts
DESCRIPTION:Seminar series: 'The challenges of experimental government'. \
 n\nFunding kindly provided by the Health Foundation.\n\n5pm\, Alison Richa
 rds Building\, POLIS\, SG1\n\nRandomised Control Trials\, behavioural insi
 ghts and 'nudge' style policy interventions have become popular in governm
 ent\, development policy\, academia and business. There is\, however\, a l
 ack of information and evidence on the challenges of setting up and implem
 enting these complex social interventions and experimental evaluations par
 ticularly documenting when things go wrong and why. This seminar series br
 ings together leading academics and policy makers to provide case studies 
 and field stories of how to design and implement social policy experiments
 .\n\nIn the final seminar this term Dr Ellen Flint\, Head of Scientific St
 rategy at Department for Work and Pensions will discuss how evidence ‘ge
 ts into policy’ and the challenges policy makers and academics face when
  working together.
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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