What works? Utilising Place and Practice-Based Evidence
Masterclass, April 2025
Evidence-informed policy integrates various types of evidence to achieve better outcomes. Place-based evidence is one tool for developing effective programmes and policies.
This masterclass, led by Dr Penny Hagen, Aimee Hadrup, Angie Tangaere (The Lab) and Dr Ingrid Burkett (The Good Shift, Australia) focused on how drawing on place-based evidence can better connect the policy making process to the context of people’s lives. Place-based evidence helps to bridge investment and policy decisions with “what works” and matters for communities and is a way to ensure stronger and more effective and enduring outcomes.
The masterclass explored, with examples from Aotearoa and Australia:
Evidence: the types of evidence, data and expertise needed to develop a meaningful picture of complex issues and solutions, and options for how we can build evidence with whānau and communities for when evidence is lacking.
Place: distinguishing between types of ‘place-based’ approaches, investing beyond services and the innovation power of whānau and indigenous-led practices.
Outcomes: tracking change across different levels of whānau, systems and implementation learning and some of the implications for policy, governance, and scaling.
The Social Investment Agency also opened with a session on the role of data and evidence in supporting social investment.
This masterclass was run as collaboration between The Auckland Co-Design Lab, the Social Investment Agency, ANZSOG, The Good Shift and The Policy Project.
You can download the slides, and other materials from the masterclass, below.
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