Professor Nancy Cartwright's Outputs (6)

Street-level Theories of Change: Adapting the Medical Model of Evidence-based Practice for Policing. (2019)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N., & Cowen, N. (2019). Street-level Theories of Change: Adapting the Medical Model of Evidence-based Practice for Policing. In N. Fielding, K. Bullock, & S. Holdaway (Eds.), Evidence-Based Policing: Critical Reflections. Routledge

Why Big Theories are Here to Stay (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cartwright, N. (2019, November). Why Big Theories are Here to Stay. Presented at «The Theoretical University» in the Data Age. Have the great theories become obsolete?, Bielefield University

Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: Predicting What Will Work Locally (2019)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N., & Joyce, K. (2020). Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: Predicting What Will Work Locally. American Educational Research Journal, 57(3), 1045-1082. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831219866687

This essay addresses the gap between what works in research and what works in practice. Currently, research in evidence-based education policy and practice focuses on RCTs. These can support causal ascriptions (‘It worked’) but provide little basis f... Read More about Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: Predicting What Will Work Locally.

What is meant by ‘rigour’ in evidence-based educational policy and what’s so good about it. (2019)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N. (2019). What is meant by ‘rigour’ in evidence-based educational policy and what’s so good about it. Educational Research and Evaluation, 25(1-2), 63-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2019.1617990

Across the evidence-based policy and practice (EBPP) community, including education, randomised controlled trials (RCTS) rank as the most “rigorous” evidence for causal conclusions. This paper argues that that is misleading. Only narrow conclusions a... Read More about What is meant by ‘rigour’ in evidence-based educational policy and what’s so good about it..

Commentary: Why Mixed Methods Are Necessary for Evaluating Any Policy (2019)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N. (2019). Commentary: Why Mixed Methods Are Necessary for Evaluating Any Policy. In M. Nagatsu, & A. Ruzzene (Eds.), Contemporary philosophy and social science : an interdisciplinary dialogue (173-184). Bloomsbury

Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures (2019)
Book
Cartwright, N. (2019). Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures. Open Court

How fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in answer. One--very orthodox--account teaches that the sciences offer gene... Read More about Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures.