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Policy Evaluation & Research Unit

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The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University is a multi-disciplinary team of evaluators, economists, sociologists and criminologists based in MMU's Sociology Department.

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Meet the team

Implementing Innovative Social Investment

New Book co-authored by Susan Baines, Andrea Bassi, Judit Csoba, and Flórián Sipos

New publication

Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey can improve Policy

New publication

Payment by results and social impact bonds: Outcome-based payment systems in the UK and US

Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe

Book edited by Hilary Pilkington, Gary Pollock and Renata Franc

An Introduction to Evaluation

Book co-authored by Chris Fox and Robert Grimm

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Key Services

Evaluation

Economic Analysis

Randomized Controlled Trials

Designing Evidence-Informed Policy

Survey Design and Analysis

Systematic Review and Rapid Evidence Assessment

Programmes

MSc Urban Policy and Analytics

Latest News

Friday 16 October 2020 NEW: Blaming Britain’s Muslim Communities; COVID-19 in prisons; Antisocial shifts in social policy and serious youth violence; book reviews

Monday 05 October 2020 Conference call: migrant children’s integration in European communities

Monday 28 September 2020 PERU’s Kevin Wong is new Chair of the Criminal Justice Alliance

Recent Publications

Where Next for Co-creating Public Services?

Using Information Science to enhance educational preventing violent extremism programmes

Time to reset the clock on the design of impact evaluations in criminology

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British Journal of Community Justice

A peer reviewed open access online journal hosted by PERU.

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Organisations we work with

  • ICF GHK
  • Greater Manchester Police
  • Police and Crime Commissioner
  • The Manchester College
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Horizon 2020

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