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Promoting housing evidence to parliamentarians
by Jim Vine - on 17/03/2016I was asked by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Social Science to speak at its event last week, aimed at MPs, Peers, and others around Westminster and Whitehall. The meeting was looking at the subject of housing, with a particular focus on housing for young people. Below is a lightly edited copy of the text of my speaking notes.
Comments: 0Who benefits from shared ownership?
by David King - on 16/03/2016David King looks at the state of shared ownership in the sector and asks whether we know enough about its impact.
Comments: 0How to cultivate social sustainability during times of change
by Katharine Hibbert - on 16/03/2016Katharine Hibbert from Dot Dot Dot guest blogs that if building sustainable communities is important for social housing in normal times, it should be even more so during regeneration projects.
Comments: 0Remembering Mike Wright
by Jane Minter - on 15/03/2016Jane Minter, Head of Programmes at Care and Repair England writes about HACT's founding Director Mike Wright, who recently passed away.
Comments: 0Randomised Control Trials: A housing case study
by Maggie Houghton - on 23/02/2016As HACT launches several Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) in the housing sector, Maggie Houghton, Innovation Advisor at Hyde, reflects on their journey to better evidence.
Comments: 0Setting the mental wellbeing scales
by David King - on 22/02/2016David King discusses the importance and increasing popularity of the WEMWBS scale, but also looks to what remains to be understood to fully utilise it.
Comments: 0Could IoT revolutionise building and home insurance?
by Jay Saggar - on 17/02/2016When we think about connected homes there is a tendency to focus on consumer devices and products that dominate most of the technology press coverage. This could be smart light bulbs that turn on as we approach home- aided by the GPS data generated by our smart phones or the networked fridge that orders you milk when you are running low. However this is only one narrow conception of what IoT can do for us and in the housing context arguably the part that will be slowest to realise.
Comments: 0Making it easier to produce evidence
by Jim Vine - on 03/02/2016For a sector that has historically had more experience of case study evidence than evidence of effectiveness, producing this new type of evidence can be daunting. The newly-published Standards of Evidence make it easier to produce evidence by providing a consistent process to follow.
Comments: 0Randomised controlled trials start: launching housing RCT research
by Jim Vine - on 28/01/2016As housing associations demand more and better evidence on which to base their decisions, HACT's randomised controlled trials of tenancy sustainment initiatives are getting underway.
Comments: 0Innovate, but still evaluate and keep it randomised!
by Professor Shaun Treweek - on 26/01/2016Ahead of the launch of the Standards of Evidence, Professor Shaun Treweek talks about the benefits of Randomised Controlled Trials and how they can be used in the housing sector.
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