Lesley Grayson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5802471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Grayson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Grayson |
| SIGNATURE | GRAYSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does evidence-based policy work? Learning from the UK experience
This article reviews what has happened to put into effect the commitment to more evidencebased policy and practice in the UK, by identifying the opportunities this has offered to the research community and reflecting on the ways in which researchers have responded. It identifies a number of issues that remain unresolved and offers an agenda for those who are committed to advancing the application of evidence to policy and practice in the UK and e…
Using evidence
Making Research Count – where it really counts
This section of Evidence & Policy has two main objectives: to inform readers about the development of evidence-informed policy and practice, as reflected in the literature; and to provide practical advice on the sources that policy makers, practitioners and researchers can exploit in their search for evidence.The section begins with a short article on Making Research Count, a UK evidencebased initiative in the social care field in which a network…
Practical help on reviewing and applying evidence in social care
Google – boon, bane or both
The Social Care Institute for Excellence
Revitalising analysis for policy
Bringing social science research into the heart of UK central government policy making is the job of the Government Social Research community (GSR). 1 Located in 20 government departments, and numbering around 1,000 researchers, GSR aims to
Sources and Resources
Social Science and the Evidence-based Policy Movement
There is a growing interest in ‘ evidence-based policy making’ in the UK. However, there remains some confusion about what evidence-based policy making actually means. This paper outlines some of the models used to understand how evidence is thought to shape or inform policy in order to explore the assumptions underlying ‘evidence-based policy making.’ By way of example, it considers the process of evidence seeking and in particular the systemati…
Canadian literary and other elites
Cultures can be thought to consist of archaic, residual, emergent, and dominant elements. The classes and institutions responsible for the sustenance of these elements can vary from time to time and from place to place. In capitalist social formations, intellectuals in general have important roles to play in the propagation and sustenance of these elements. One group of intellectuals, the Canadian literary elite, despite the essentially petty and…
Class and ideologies of class in the EngIish‐Canadian novel
The Canadian Literary Elite
J. Paul Grayson, L. M. Grayson, The Canadian Literary Elite: A Socio-Historical Perspective, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer, 1978), pp. 291-308
Interest aggregation and Canadian politics
The following article focuses on the processes whereby an initial demand for the formation of a central bank in Canada was eventually transformed into policy. In the analysis, the groups for and against the formation of the bank are identified, the environmental factors which made demands for a central bank credible are examined, and the role of the political parties in translating demand into policy is looked at in some detail. This analysis she…
The Wretched of Canada
Journal Article The wretched of Canada: Letters to R. B. Bennett 1930–1935. Ed. by L. M. Grayson and Michael Bliss. (Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1971. xxvii + 199 pp. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $3.95.) Get access Thomas S. Morgan, Jr. Thomas S. Morgan, Jr. Winthrop College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 3, December 1972, Pages 779–780, https://doi.org/10.…
Social Science and the Evidence-based Policy Movement
There is a growing interest in ‘ evidence-based policy making’ in the UK. However, there remains some confusion about what evidence-based policy making actually means. This paper outlines some of the models used to understand how evidence is thought to shape or inform policy in order to explore the assumptions underlying ‘evidence-based policy making.’ By way of example, it considers the process of evidence seeking and in particular the systemati…
Does evidence-based policy work? Learning from the UK experience
This article reviews what has happened to put into effect the commitment to more evidencebased policy and practice in the UK, by identifying the opportunities this has offered to the research community and reflecting on the ways in which researchers have responded. It identifies a number of issues that remain unresolved and offers an agenda for those who are committed to advancing the application of evidence to policy and practice in the UK and e…
The Canadian Literary Elite
J. Paul Grayson, L. M. Grayson, The Canadian Literary Elite: A Socio-Historical Perspective, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer, 1978), pp. 291-308
The Wretched of Canada
Journal Article The wretched of Canada: Letters to R. B. Bennett 1930–1935. Ed. by L. M. Grayson and Michael Bliss. (Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1971. xxvii + 199 pp. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $3.95.) Get access Thomas S. Morgan, Jr. Thomas S. Morgan, Jr. Winthrop College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 3, December 1972, Pages 779–780, https://doi.org/10.…
Revitalising analysis for policy
Bringing social science research into the heart of UK central government policy making is the job of the Government Social Research community (GSR). 1 Located in 20 government departments, and numbering around 1,000 researchers, GSR aims to
Interest aggregation and Canadian politics
The following article focuses on the processes whereby an initial demand for the formation of a central bank in Canada was eventually transformed into policy. In the analysis, the groups for and against the formation of the bank are identified, the environmental factors which made demands for a central bank credible are examined, and the role of the political parties in translating demand into policy is looked at in some detail. This analysis she…
The Wretched of Canada
Journal Article The wretched of Canada: Letters to R. B. Bennett 1930–1935. Ed. by L. M. Grayson and Michael Bliss. (Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1971. xxvii + 199 pp. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $3.95.) Get access Thomas S. Morgan, Jr. Thomas S. Morgan, Jr. Winthrop College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 3, December 1972, Pages 779–780, https://doi.org/10.…
Interest aggregation and Canadian politics
The following article focuses on the processes whereby an initial demand for the formation of a central bank in Canada was eventually transformed into policy. In the analysis, the groups for and against the formation of the bank are identified, the environmental factors which made demands for a central bank credible are examined, and the role of the political parties in translating demand into policy is looked at in some detail. This analysis she…
Class and ideologies of class in the EngIish‐Canadian novel
The Canadian Literary Elite
J. Paul Grayson, L. M. Grayson, The Canadian Literary Elite: A Socio-Historical Perspective, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer, 1978), pp. 291-308
Canadian literary and other elites
Cultures can be thought to consist of archaic, residual, emergent, and dominant elements. The classes and institutions responsible for the sustenance of these elements can vary from time to time and from place to place. In capitalist social formations, intellectuals in general have important roles to play in the propagation and sustenance of these elements. One group of intellectuals, the Canadian literary elite, despite the essentially petty and…
Social Science and the Evidence-based Policy Movement
There is a growing interest in ‘ evidence-based policy making’ in the UK. However, there remains some confusion about what evidence-based policy making actually means. This paper outlines some of the models used to understand how evidence is thought to shape or inform policy in order to explore the assumptions underlying ‘evidence-based policy making.’ By way of example, it considers the process of evidence seeking and in particular the systemati…
Sources and Resources
Google – boon, bane or both
The Social Care Institute for Excellence
Revitalising analysis for policy
Bringing social science research into the heart of UK central government policy making is the job of the Government Social Research community (GSR). 1 Located in 20 government departments, and numbering around 1,000 researchers, GSR aims to
Using evidence
Making Research Count – where it really counts
This section of Evidence & Policy has two main objectives: to inform readers about the development of evidence-informed policy and practice, as reflected in the literature; and to provide practical advice on the sources that policy makers, practitioners and researchers can exploit in their search for evidence.The section begins with a short article on Making Research Count, a UK evidencebased initiative in the social care field in which a network…
Practical help on reviewing and applying evidence in social care
Does evidence-based policy work? Learning from the UK experience
This article reviews what has happened to put into effect the commitment to more evidencebased policy and practice in the UK, by identifying the opportunities this has offered to the research community and reflecting on the ways in which researchers have responded. It identifies a number of issues that remain unresolved and offers an agenda for those who are committed to advancing the application of evidence to policy and practice in the UK and e…
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