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New research led by Dr Jessica Espey explores diverse evidence systems across Sub-Saharan Africa to strengthen national and global decision-making — even through periods of political change.

https://www.worldpop.org/blog/local-evidence-can-improve-global-decision-making/

#EvidenceBasedPolicy #GlobalDevelopment #DataForDecisionMaking #ResearchImpact #CivilSociety #InternationalDevelopment #SDGs #EvidenceAndPolicy #GlobalSouth

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ACCOUNTABILITY GAPS: An Eviden...

How do data shape policy, and whose realities get counted?

Join our Deputy Director (Research), Dr Jessica Espey, for the QMRG Annual Lecture, delivered in partnership with the Geographical Journal, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference.

📅 3 September, 2:45pm (UK), 💻Hybrid event

Register: https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/registration
Info: https://event.ac2026.exordo.com/presentation/3894/whose-numbers-count-the-contested-politics-of-data-in-national-policy-and-planning

#DataGovernance #PublicPolicy #EvidenceBasedPolicy #Research

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It turns out that there’s not always good reasons for what we do – particularly for what governments do! In fact, there are good reasons to stop doing them. Dingoes and land management, climate change, deforestation and many many more issues require us to examine the evidence – evidence we already have – and change our ways.

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#OpenData #DataForGood #EvidenceBasedPolicy #SustainableDevelopment

Did the War on Drugs work the way we hoped?

A calm, evidence-led look at fifty years of UK policy, persistent behaviour, and the costs of trying to legislate reality away.

#UKPolitics #LetsRethink #PolicyMaking #EvidenceBasedPolicy

https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/lets-rethink-policy-making-filthy-lucre-cost-of-a-lost-war/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

✨ Prof. Elizabeth Tipton (Northwestern University) visited the RC Trust Graduate School with her inspiring talk “Developing Trustworthy Evidence: From Science to Policymaking.”

She called on researchers to design studies that represent real people and to make evidence truly useful for decision-makers. 🌍

📖 Read our recap: https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/doing-the-right-thing-how-science-can-build-trustworthy-evidence-for-policymaking

Photo: Julian Welz/TU Dortmund

#RCTrust #GraduateSchool #EvidenceBasedPolicy #ResearchCollaboration #DataScience #Statistics

Innovative editorial funding model: Pop-Up Journals

https://opensocial.at/display/59c238fc-7768-61ae-a316-51d060240177

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/22/wales-20mph-speed-limit-cut-road-deaths-why-debate “sometimes it can be best to ignore the noisiest voices, and take the evidence-based course” #Wales #SafeStreets #TwentyIsPlenty #EvidenceBasedPolicy #PublicSafety

👉 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: https://impact.dataschool.nl/events/making-a-difference-societal-impact-through-collaborative-research/

#EvidenceBasedPolicy #StakeholderEngagement #PolicyInnovation #WorkshopMethodology #Conference #Collaboration

“I want us to have a building code that’s motivated by science and informed by trade-offs,” Eriksen said. “I’m worried we’re building a world that’s too expensive to live in.” https://slate.com/business/2025/02/housing-crisis-apartments-development-single-stair-reform-codes.html #SingleStair #BuildingCodeReform #Housing #Elevator #FireSafety #Science #Architecture #EvidenceBasedPolicy

"Just a wee plea to my lefty friends not to get stuck into this idea that if you just show people enough data they will change their minds. Because this government is actively saying, 'we will erase the data'. Because it doesn't matter. It's not real to us it's not what we believe."

#StephanieRodgers (@bootstheory), 2024

https://www.1of200.nz/podcast/1200-s2e68-fast-track-next-generation

#podcasts #1Of200 #data #EvidenceBasedPolicy

#Florida’s #SurgeonGeneral Shows the #Danger of #Politicizing #Medicine.

#JosephLadapo’s #rejection of #evidencebasedpolicy stems from #political rather than #scientific #motivations and puts #innocent # lives #atrisk

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Health #Healthcare #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #ConspiracyTheories #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/floridas-surgeon-general-shows-the-danger-of-politicizing-of-medicine/

Reality has a distinct anti-conservative bias, but conservatives have an answer: when the facts don't support your policies, just get different facts. Who needs #EvidenceBasedPolicy when you can have #PolicyBasedEvidence?

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