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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

Thursday 04 July 2019 PERU helping to organise the 14th European Sociological Association

Tuesday 25 June 2019 Kirstine Szifris appointed vice-Chair of Prisoner Learning Academic Network

Wednesday 05 June 2019 New partnership with the University of Southern California

Recent Publications

Early testing and formative evaluation of the Enablers of Change assessment and sentence planning tool for adults with convictions

Co-creation of Public Service Innovation

Functional Skills in Prison: The Case For a Randomised Controlled Trial

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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

  • The Manchester College
  • National Probation Service
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Purple Futures
  • Police and Crime Commissioner
  • Khulisa UK

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