RT @HeyQuarterly: How can you transform government policy by understanding human behaviour? 🧠. In our latest article, @DavidHalpernCBE take….

See my short piece in @thetimes on link between social capital and economic growth, & what to do @hmtreasury, from Demos paper by @AndyHaldaneRSA and me. Thx to fellow Commissioners @iconeighbours and @pollycurtis @B_I_Team @RobertDPutnam @DianeCoyle1859

RT @iconeighbours: Great piece from ICON Commissioner @DavidHalpernCBE in The Times, exploring how strengthening social ties and building t….

Another spot-on piece by @TimHarford . esp relevant for governments needing to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public services. @puzzlesthewill @carolinefiennes @stianwestlake @robynmildon @B_I_Team.

Timely piece from @HeyQuarterly by Robert Chote on @OBR_UK . In recent years, OBR has asked @hmtreasury awkward questions that HMT asks Departments, like 'what's the evidence for this?' V healthy! @Gus_ODonnell @martinwolf_ @gilliantett.

Got to love this UK eccentricity. knitted postbox covers. This rather splendid example in Covent Garden. dinosaurs and volcanos. mad, funny, skillful. cause for smile @coventgardenuk @CoventGardenGB @CoventGardenFan @SimplyKnitMag

Excellent documentary of @RobertDPutnam work now live. I've worked with Bob for 25years, and still learnt. Also great intro to incredible impacts of social networks on life, and the arc of rise and decline in US. @AndyHaldaneRSA @matt_leach @benatipsos.

Do join if u can! @ALeighMP is fantastic! @B_I_Team.

RT @CassSunstein: Hono(u)red to be speaking at LSE in December on Campus Free Speech. @LSEpublicevents @LSEEcon @LSEBehavioural @LSE_PBS @1….

RT @policyatkings: NEW: Labour should set out a “practical theory” of government that gives clearer direction to Whitehall as it works to r….

RT @iconeighbours: Join ICON today at Labour Party conference. A new commission on neighbourhoods: exploring and addressing the challenges….

About to head off to panel session at Labour Party Conference on new Commission on Neighbourhoods, with Baroness Hilary Armstrong, @roswynnejones (Daily Mirror). It's 9.00am Museum of Liverpool, People’s Republic Gallery. Join! @LocalTrust @Moreincommon_ @UCLPolicyLab @B_I_Team.

Incredible: just a couple of weeks on from report, $60m committed by @esrc ($15m) & @wellcometrust ($45m) for major expansion of systematic, AI enabled, living evidence reviews. Wow! @stianwestlake @BBCMoreOrLess @BBCMarkEaston @puzzlesthewill @jhjelliott @ALeighMP @CassSunstein.

Fantastic $45m 5yr initiative by @wellcometrust to expand systematic living evidence reviews! . across fields 'from education and agriculture to energy and urban planning'. Builds on @ESRC & glob evidence report. 😀 @stianwestlake @EvidenceComm @B_I_Team.

Delighted to see ESRC funding and call to support evidence synthesis! Aligns strongly with recommendations of our Global Evidence Report. Moving forward! @stianwestlake.@ALeighMP @CampbellReviews @EvidenceComm @B_I_Team @BBCMoreOrLess @wellcometrust.

RT @BBCMoreOrLess: “Most policy and most government, you would hope, is based on evidence. But it turns out often the evidence base is very….

Great sessions at discussion at Policy Live! @nesta_uk @B_I_Team

Improve use. 5. Strengthen international public service professional networks to accelerate the transfer of best practices across countries .6. Conduct research into effective translation & adoption (‘metascience’) to accelerate the transfer of evidence into policy & practice.

Improve translation. 3. Conduct evidence gap maps across priority policy areas to obtain an overarching view of the state of the evidence .4. Prioritise the synthesis of this evidence into high-quality, comprehensive reviews, or meta-Living Evidence Reviews (meta-LERs).

Report recommends:.Improve supply. 1. Establish a Shared Evaluation Fund across partner countries to ensure evaluation of promising interventions .2. Promote standardised reporting and publication protocols to facilitate inter-governmental sharing of evaluated interventions.