Provides a multidisciplinary framework for understanding the research use agenda. This book considers how research use and the impact of research can be assessed. It is useful for university and government researchers, research funding bodies, public service managers and professionals, and students [...]

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate-and controversial-new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military caree[...]

There is widespread commitment across public service agencies in the UK and elsewhere to ensuring that the best available evidence is used to improve public services. The challenge is not only making research evidence accessible and available but also getting it used. This book provides a timely and[...]