The Knowledge Exchange Blog
Counting the cost of data protection failures in local government
By Steven McGinty
In August, Hampshire County Council were fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after social care files and 45 bags of confidential ….
The Men’s Sheds revolution spreading around the world
by Stacey Dingwall
Last week I attended ‘Men’s Sheds: the movement in Scotland and the big picture internationally’, an event, organised by the Centre for Research & Development in Adult and Lifelong ….
In support of qualitative research: the value of qualitative insight for policy formation
For many people, working in the tangible, measurable area of hard figures provides an element of certainty to decision making processes. It is perhaps for this reason that quantitative research was, for many years, the largely uncontested preference for decision makers and people looking for ….



