October 13, 2014
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Orthodox economics has long come in for criticism regarding its presumptions about the world, especially those regarding human decision-making. The question is, if economics is to become more empirically attuned to real-world behaviour, how should it seek to do so? … Continue reading
September 11, 2014
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Comments Off on Final programme for the ESRC Spaces of Evidence seminar series: Trials and Tribulations in Economics. New directions for economic policy evidence
We are pleased to announce the final programme for the third seminar in the ESRC Spaces of Evidence seminar series: Trials and Tribulations in Economics. New directions for economic policy evidence. The event will be held on September 26, at … Continue reading
June 25, 2014
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We are pleased to announce the third seminar in the ESRC Spaces of Evidence seminar series: “Trials and Tribulations in Economics. New directions for economic policy evidence”. The seminar will be led by Dr Will Davies (Goldsmiths – w.davies@gold.ac.uk ) and … Continue reading
June 3, 2014
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Comments Off on Related events: Experience as Evidence?
A Symposium on the Sciences of Subjectivity in Healthcare, Policy and Practice. Monday, 13 October 2014, 9 am to Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 5 pm St Hugh’s College, Oxford. The symposium brings together a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and … Continue reading
March 17, 2014
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Comments Off on Call for papers for a proposed special issue of Critical Public Health
Call for papers for a proposed special issue of Critical Public Health. Editors: Kirsten Bell, University of British Columbia and Denielle Elliott, York University ‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Social science research on health in the age of research ethics … Continue reading
March 4, 2014
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We are pleased to announce the final programme for the launch event of the ESRC-funded Spaces of Evidence network, The trial on trial. Evidence in interdisciplinary contexts, on Friday March the 28th 2014 at the University of Essex. The programme … Continue reading
February 24, 2014
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Comments Off on Listening to what doesn’t work: Professor Jack Winkler takes a “brutally pragmatic” approach to food policy
“The most important reason for policy failure is the one that nutritionists are most reluctant to admit: many people are not interested in healthy eating”. An important aspect of evidence-based health policy is that one has to base policies not … Continue reading
January 20, 2014
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Dr Will Davies examines the transformation of British policy evaluation in an article published on the London School of Economics blog British Politics and Policy at LSE.
January 20, 2014
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The UK launch of the seminar series takes place on March 28, 2014 at the University of Essex. The meeting, “The trial on trial:evidence in interdisciplinary contexts,” features talks from an international team of speakers on the history, current application … Continue reading
January 20, 2014
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In collaboration with staff from the University of Essex’s law and sociology departments, as well as staff from the World Health Organization, our first initiative took place in October 25, 2013, as part of a collaborative meeting co-hosted in Geneva … Continue reading
