Outputs (279)

The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Emerging Findings from Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa, and Uganda (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper

Designing evaluations to provide evidence to inform action in new settings (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper

Using middle-level theory to improve programme and evaluation design. (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper

Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper

What allows research evidence to contribute to successful social policy and improve practice in public services? The establishment of the What Works Network, a group of evidence ‘clearing houses’, that summarise academic research evidence for practit... Read More about Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials.

Human dignity, human rights, and the human genome (1997)
Preprint / Working Paper

Stakeholder engagement for development impact and learning (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper

Are laws of nature consistent with contingency? (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper

Are the laws of nature consistent with contingency about what happens in the world? That depends on what the laws of nature actually are, but it also depends on what they are like. This latter is our concern here. Different philosophic views give dif... Read More about Are laws of nature consistent with contingency?.

Deliberating Policy: Where morals and methods mix – and not always for the best (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper

In 2004 in the London Borough of Haringey, 17-month-old Peter Connelly was found dead in his crib. The child had suffered fractured ribs and a broken back after months of abuse at home. His mother, her partner and a lodger were jailed for his death.... Read More about Deliberating Policy: Where morals and methods mix – and not always for the best.

Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue (2023)
Journal Article

The article offers an ethnographically embedded analysis of a UK-based Jewish-Muslim inter-community network to contribute to anthropological research into the ethical efforts that groups seen as polarized invest in negotiating boundaries of differen... Read More about Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue.

Mechanisms, ceteris paribus laws and covering-law explanation (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper

Main developments in bioethics and biolaw in the United Kingdom, 1996-1998. (1999)
Preprint / Working Paper

What’s so special about empirical adequacy? (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper

Theory choice has long been a prime topic in philosophy of science: ‘How should we choose from among competing theories?’ Theory virtues have also in recent years become a standard, closely related topic: 'What virtues should a desirable theory have?... Read More about What’s so special about empirical adequacy?.

Making predictions of programme success more reliable (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper

Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper

RCTs would be more useful if there were more realistic expectations of them and if their pitfalls were better recognized. For example, and contrary to many claims in the applied literature, randomization does not equalize everything but the treatment... Read More about Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials.

Making the Most of the Evidence: Evidence-based policy in the classroom (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper

What allows research evidence to contribute to successful social policy and improve practice in public services? The establishment of the What Works Network, a group of evidence ‘clearing houses’, that summarise academic research evidence for practit... Read More about Making the Most of the Evidence: Evidence-based policy in the classroom.

SIBLE: II European legal-morality and its application to the Human Genome Project (1996)
Preprint / Working Paper

A Theory of Measurement (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper discusses basic issues about the nature of measurement for concepts in the social sciences and medicine, introducing a three-stage theory of measurement. In science and policy investigations we study quantities and qualities (or quality/qu... Read More about A Theory of Measurement.

Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper

How do we establish singular causal claims? It seems we do this all the time, from courtrooms to cloud chambers. Nevertheless, there is a strong lobby in the evidence-based medicine and policy movements that argues that we cannot make reliable causal... Read More about Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why.

Making the Most of the Evidence in Education: A Guide for Working Out What Works .... Here and Now (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper

This is a guide to using research evidence when deliberating about educational policies. It is intended for teachers, for school heads, for boards of governors – for anyone who has to settle on policies, programmes or approaches, whether for a singe... Read More about Making the Most of the Evidence in Education: A Guide for Working Out What Works .... Here and Now.

Epistemic Agency and the Generalisation of Fear (2023)
Journal Article