Evidence and policymaking

Professor Graham Room is Director of Research and Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath Complexity Science Recent decades have seen a dramatic growth in the literature on complex systems. Much of this...

Professor Julie Barnett, University of Bath Department of Psychology. The definition of ‘risk’ is deceptively complex. It is a contested term, but simultaneously one which has become a dominant, certainly ubiquitous, currency in 21st Century life: risk, as it is...

Nationally and internationally, economic growth – such as there was – is faltering.  China’s slowdown has prompted falls on the Asian and global stock markets. The US Fed’s signal that interest rates may soon rise – and QE wind down...