Evidence-based policy is a dominant theme in contemporary public services but the practical
realities and challenges involved in using evidence in policy-making are formidable. Part of …

Evaluation research is tortured by time constraints. The policy cycle revolves more quickly
than the research cycle, with the result that `real time' evaluations often have little influence on …

… Pawson developed the basic model as part of his fellowship on the ESRC Research Methods
Programme, though the ideas hark back to work he conducted at the ESRC UK Centre for …

Evaluation research is tortured by time constraints. The policy cycle revolves quicker than
the research cycle, with the result that `real time' evaluations often have little influence on …

Background Meta‐narrative review is one of an emerging menu of new approaches to
qualitative and mixed‐method systematic review. A meta‐narrative review seeks to illuminate a …

… Finally, this book's authorship, as with our previous efforts, puts Pawson before Tilley.
The only significance of this is in the branding of our product. Just occasionally, we allowed …

… One can gain a crude measure of the staying power of ideas through citation counts and it
is true to say that it would have knocked the socks off Pawson and Tilley in 1997 and Pawson …

… Some realist syntheses published to date have deliberately adapted the method as first
described by Pawson. Sometimes, adaptations may be entirely justifiable, but at other times they …

… This chapter uses the tag ‘realist’ to describe the preferred approach, though it describes a
strategy first set down in Pawson & Tilley’s Realistic Evaluation (1997). The reasons for the little …

First Published in 2004. This challenging and pioneering work aims to provide a measure (a
set of standards) for measures (empirical data) in sociological research. It argues that the …