News Archive

This is the news archive for news posts submitted on this site. You can read about some of our recent projects on the case studies page Click on the title of an item to read the text.

Make Justice Work

June 30th, 2009

Matrix Insight Ltd was commissioned by the Make Justice Work campaign to undertake an independent assessment of whether short-term prisons sentences are an effective and efficient use of public resources. Find out more in the press release.

Summary of the Impact Assessment Study of the ERA-NET (June, 2009)

June 30th, 2009

The European Commission, through the Directorate-General for Research, commissioned Matrix Insight to evaluate the impact of the ERA-NET scheme and related. read more »

Guardian Public Services Awards 2009

May 27th, 2009

Matrix Knowledge Group is proud to sponsor the Transformation award at the Guardian Public Services Awards 2009. Read more about this in our press release

Inside Times, May 2009

May 11th, 2009

Kevin Marsh wrote an article for Inside Time on The Real Cost of Prison. Click here to download the article.

The Ninth Annual Campbell Collaboration Colloquium

April 21st, 2009

Matrix Evidence supported The Ninth Annual Campbell Collaboration Colloquium which was held in Oslo, Norway on 18-20 May 2009. Read more

Doing Business in Emerging Markets

March 26th, 2009

Matrix was featured in the FT in a special report about doing business in emerging markets. Please click this link to read the full article.

Integrated Care Magazine

March 18th, 2009

Matrix Insight is featured in a recent NAPC (National Association of Primary Care) publication on Integrated care. read more »

Prioritising Preventative Health and Social Care Interventions

March 16th, 2009

Matrix has been commissioned by Health England to develop and apply a method for prioritising investments in preventative health and social care interventions. read more »

Sniffy Customers

March 6th, 2009

Dr Kevin Marsh, Head of Economic Evaluation at Matrix, was quoted in this week’s edition of The Economist in an article about drug-trafficking in Europe. Click here to read the article.

Survey of Step Improvements in Community Services (November 2008)

February 11th, 2009

Matrix was commissioned to undertake a survey of step improvements in community services by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement’s Service Transformation Team (STT). read more »

Microsoft

January 26th, 2009

Matrix Decisions and its work for the Home Office is featured in a Microsoft Case Study highlighting the value of our approach to hosting software on the web. read more »

Health England

January 22nd, 2009

Matrix Evidence, in collaboration with Imperial College London, Kings College London, and Bazian, has been commissioned by Health England to support commissioners decide which public health interventions should be prioritised. read more »

Leadership in the Economy of Surprise, Wrenching Changes and Contradictions

January 15th, 2009

Professor Poonam Kumar presented at the World Congress on Leadership in the Economy of Surprise, Wrenching Changes and Contradictions read more »

Access of BME staff to senior positions in the NHS

January 15th, 2009

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement commissioned Matrix to ‘look specifically at the organisational barriers to black and minority ethnic staff rising to positions of authority and influence in the NHS’ in order to inform future developments. read more

Economic Case For and Against Prison - update

January 7th, 2009

Matrix has published an updated report on the Economic Case For and Against Prison based on the inclusion of new research studies and new analysis. read more

Business views of organised crime (December 2008)

January 7th, 2009

Matt Hopkins and John Burrows recently wrote a report with Nick Tilley and Adam Edwards titled Business views of organised crime, a Home Office Research Report 10. read more »

A Guide to Giving 3rd edition (december 2008)

January 1st, 2009

Matrix wrote a chapter on charity impact evaluation in A Guide to Giving published by Philanthropy UK. read more »

The Economic Case For and Against Prison (November 2008)

December 19th, 2008

Matrix has published an updated report on the Economic Case For and Against Prison based on the inclusion of new research studies and new analysis. You can download the report and find out more here.

The Mega Ace/Matrix Partnership

December 12th, 2008

Mega Ace Consultancy and Matrix have formed a strategic partnership and now operate as a healthcare innovation and development group with offices in India, London and Washington DC. Read more.

The 5th India Health Summit

December 3rd, 2008

Jacque Mallender, CEO of Matrix Knowledge Group, was on the panel at the 5th India Health Summit on 15 - 16 December 2008 in New Delhi. read more »