Understanding Analysis and Use of Evidence

The venue for this event has been confirmed as The Guoman Hotel, Charing Cross. Directions can be found by clicking here

This day will be facilitated by Dr Philip Davies

09:15 - 09:45
Coffee and Registration

09:45 - 10:00             
Chair's Welcome and Introduction

10:00 - 10:30
Presentation: Professional Skills for Government

10:30 - 11:00               
Exercise:

• Which PSG skills and competencies are most relevant to your work?
• What sources of evidence do you work with?
• Which analysts do you work with (and why)?

11:00 - 11:15
Coffee

11:15 - 11:30
Exercise

• What do you understand by 'evidence' and 'analysis'?

11:30 - 12:00
Presentation: Types of Evidence and Analysis

12:00 - 12:30
Exercise

• How might you use these different types of evidence and analysis in your work?

12:30 - 13:00
Presentation: Different Notions of Evidence

• Policy makers' notions of evidence
• Analysts' notions of evidence
• Working with Analysts

13:00 - 13:45
Lunch

13:45 - 14:00
Exercise

• What constitutes high quality evidence?

14:00 - 14:30 
Presentation: Criteria for Assessing High Quality Evidence

• Internal Validity
• External Validity
• Adequacy of Reporting

14:30 - 14:45
Exercise

• What is evidence versus opinion?
• How do you verify claims (opinion) and support (evidence)?

14:45 - 15:00
Coffee

15:00 - 15:15
Exercise

• Where do you go for sound evidence?
• Some sources of sound evidence

15:15 - 15:45
Presentation: Research Synthesis: Using What We Already Know

15:45 - 16:15
Discussion

• Is any of this evidence and analysis useful for you?

16:15
Closing Remarks and End

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