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SUMMARY:The challenges and opportunities of implementing RCTs in live soci
 al policy settings - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20180131T110000Z
DTEND:20180131T120000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Adam Coutts
DESCRIPTION:Seminar series: 'The challenges of experimental government’.
  Department of Sociology. Funding kindly provided by the Health Foundation
 .\n\nRandomised Control Trials\, behavioural insights and ‘nudge’ styl
 e policy interventions have become popular in government\, development pol
 icy\, academia and business. There is\, however\, a lack of information an
 d evidence on the challenges of setting up and implementing these complex 
 social interventions and experimental evaluations particularly documenting
  when things go wrong and why. This seminar series brings 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 fifth sem
 inar of the series we are pleased to welcome David Johnson\, Evaluation le
 ad for the health led trials at the Work and Health Unit\, Department for 
 Work and Pensions. David will be talking about his experiences of designin
 g and implementing the health led trials within government\, the challenge
 s they face and the key lessons of what has worked.\n\nThe trials are taki
 ng the concept of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) and testing it wi
 th new groups of people and different health conditions. The trials began 
 in autumn 2017 and run until 2020. They are a joint endeavour between: DWP
 \, DH and NHS-E and two large local sites: the West Midlands Combined Auth
 ority and Sheffield City Region.\n\nDavid Johnson bio\n\nSocial researcher
  in the DWP and DHSC Joint Work and Health Unit where he leads on policy t
 rials in the innovation space. Previously\, he was Head of Research for th
 e Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Green Deal programme\, and 
 before that Head of Profession for Social Research in the Treasury\, where
  he sat on the Social Policy and Social Work REF panel. He is Chair of the
  Social Research Association.\n\nHis recent work has involved working with
  colleagues to design and develop a large scale randomised control trial t
 o test a variety of health-led approaches to improving the health and work
  participation and retention of people with more common health conditions 
 such as anxiety\, depression and musculoskeletal (MSK) problems. 
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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