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Policy Evaluation & Research Unit

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PERU at MMU

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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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 15 March 2019 Professor Sue Baines’ blog post: Doing Co-creation – a Challenge of Social Investment

Thursday 14 March 2019 The Manchester Crime and Justice Film Festival - May 2019

Wednesday 13 March 2019 PERU’s review of technology in probation supervision published by HM Inspectorate of Probation.

Recent Publications

A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the effectiveness of remote supervision and new technologies in managing probation service users

Implementing Innovative Social Investment

Evaluating outcome-based payment programmes: challenges for evidence-based policy

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British Journal of Community Justice

A peer reviewed open access online journal hosted by PERU.

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Next Event

Mar 25

Professor Susan Baines Inaugural Lecture: Reinventing the past – investing in the future

This talk refers to many years devoted to applied social research on themes that have spanned micro-enterprise,…

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Organisations we work with

  • Nacro
  • Novus
  • National Probation Service
  • The Manchester College
  • Ministry of Justice
  • HMP Grendon

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