Working on what works
Working out what works : the role of tacit knowledge where urban greenspace research, policy and practice intersect
... IWUN is a multi-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between urban greenspace and the people, places and policies operating within a large English city. She ffi eld’s green spaces (Figure 1) have attracted ...
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Personal guidance: What works?
... Such processes highlight the way in which the personal guidance interview can be viewed as a focus point to a much wider set of career learning which is being undertaken by the young person. This in turn highlights the ...
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Careers Provision in Colleges: What Works?
... partnership working between schools, colleges and employers, student- reported improvements in the quality of careers guidance, greater awareness of employability skills and progression routes, and subsequent ...
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What works? : Policies for employability in cities
... and tailored service for individuals and facilitating sharing of information and understanding between staff working in different, but related policy domains. An example of this is provided by the Single Points of ...
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Well being and community life: Keeping isolation at bay?
... the What Works Centre for Wellbeing was to develop a working theory of change that made the interactions between community conditions, individual wellbeing and community wellbeing explicit – ...
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Teacher CPD delivered by employers. What works?
... Teachers must be supported by the facilita- tor of the placement as well as the school in which they teach throughout the duration of the placement. Communication can help to mitigate any issues that may arise as a ...
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Successful mental health promotion with men: evidence from 'tacit knowledge'
... The article focuses on what those working in the men’s mental health promotion field have to say about what works, for which men and why in relation to successful mental health promotion[r] ...
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Using evidence in the classroom : what works and why?
... increasingly decentralised education system where responsibility for the transformation of evidence for practice is dispersed and happens on a piecemeal basis. There are a range of organisations who could take such as ...
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What Works : evidence centres for social policy
... been working with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Big Lottery Fund, Nesta and a wide range of partners in the public services, policy and academic arenas, to identify sectors of pressing ...
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What Works? Principals' Perceptions of Professional Development.
... I consider my role in facilitating the professional growth of my teachers involves the identification of the needs of individual teachers and the school as a whole. Perceptual, demographic, process, and achievement data ...
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What works to reduce prejudice and discrimination? A review of the evidence
... women, working class people, ethnic groups in some cases) this is not the ...black working-class woman will inevitably experience processes of exclusion and discrimination differently to a black ...
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The impact of corrections on re-offending: a review of ‘what works’
... A two-year reconviction study of offenders sentenced to DTTOs during the pilots found that o ffenders who commenced the order were statistically significantly less likely to be reconvicted (80%) than offenders in a ...
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Insights from occupational health psychology – what works?
... In terms of interventions, Professor Karina Nielsen from the University of Sheffield highlighted the need to make a very complex process as simple as possible. Drawing upon her research and practical work on ...
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‘What Works’ in Community Cohesion
... reviewed, however, and it may be that in the future community cohesion is made into a specific strand of policy, and a team set up with this as its remit – see section 3.4 below for further discussion of this. The ...
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Careers in the Curriculum. What works?
... of what they are studying to solving problems and getting things done in the ‘real world’ and benefit- ing their future working lives and careers; but care must be taken not to overload students when they ...
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What works and what's just?
... or what probation aims to ...to what extent probation really works with communities in the present, as opposed to working with offenders on behalf of the future wellbeing of imagined ...
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What Works in Careers and Enterprise?
... be working to increase our understanding of the evidence base on each of these activities and seeking to move more activities into the ‘strong evidence’ ...
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Careers events : what works?
... we're working with which is mainly 16–18 vocational they struggle with the soft skills, you know the ability to go up to an ...and what they get out of an ...
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Culture and culture change in a higher education context: what works and what doesn’t?
... Regardless, a work which addresses culture needs to include some form of explanation of the term, and there are many such accounts available. Those by Alvesson (1993, 2002), Alvesson & Sveningsson (2008), Archer ...
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Preventing violence against women: what works and what doesn't in Anglican communities
... Attending the workshop for some in the group was the beginning of a new realisation of the seriousness and depth of the issue of violence against women. As leaders, we also must take on the responsibility to continue to ...
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