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

Matrix was commissioned by the Department of Health to review the literture on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions for the Prevention and Preventative Spending Health England Report (No. 2). You can download the report here.

Matrix provided the data for a study on drug distribution. The results have been published in a paper titled Economic analysis of drug transaction ‘cycles’ described by incarcerated UK drug dealers. You can download the report here.

Matrix provided the data for a study on drug smuggling. The results have been published in a paper titled How illegal drugs enter an island country: insights from interviews with incarcerated smugglers . You can download the report here.

Kevin Marsh, Head of Economics at Matrix, has recently had a paper published in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice titled Do You Get What You Pay for? Assessing the Use of Prison from an Economic Perspective. The paper assesses the relative economic costs and benefits of alternative sentences. Click here to download a copy.

Kevin Marsh, Head of Economic Evaluation at Matrix, recently published research on the cost of adolescent drug use in the Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics. For further details on this research, please contact Kevin on kevin.marsh@matrixknowledge.com. The research can be accessed here.

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement’s Breaking Through team commissioned the Matrix Knowledge Group to ‘look specifically at the organisational barriers to black and minority ethnic (BME) staff rising to positions of authority and influence in the NHS’ in order to inform future developments. (more…)

This study was commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General: Justice, Freedom and Security. The work was carried out by a research team from Matrix Insight, in association with Professor David Miers acting as an expert independent adviser. (more…)

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. (more…)

Matrix wrote a chapter on charity impact evaluation in A Guide to Giving published by Philanthropy UK. (more…)

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.

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). (more…)

There is a substantial national and health policy thrust to increase the generation and adoption of innovations. To support this Matrix was commissioned by the NHS National Innovation Centre to identiify how innovative the NHS actually is, with a particular emphasis on technology adoption.

Matrix has produced a short, and highly accessible summary of the report which outlines the key findings.

Matrix was commissioned by the Department of Health to undertake a review of the evidence to inform prioritising investments in public health. The report of the findings of this research are now available »

Matrix, Imperial College London and University of York prepared a paper on Innovation and Well-being for NESTA. (more…)

Matrix was commissioned by NICE to assess the cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving the access of disadvantaged groups to statins and to smoking cessation interventions. (more…)

Matrix has produced an independent process evaluation of the Dedicated drug court pilots in England and Wales for the Ministry of Justice.

In December 2005, the then Department of Constitutional Affairs announced a commitment to pilot Dedicated Drug Courts as part of the government’s agenda to reduce drug-related crime. The process report that Matrix was commissioned to produce can now be downloaded here.

Matrix Knowledge Group was commissioned by the Home Office to undertake a large study on the illicit drug trade in the United Kingdom. You can read more about it here

The latest report in the Beckley series looks at the operation of middle-level drug dealers, and how their behaviour is influenced by the activities of the law enforcement agencies. (more…)

Matrix has just completed a piece of research for the charity School-Home Support. (more…)

You can now download the Masterclass presentations from the National Convention for Safer Communities by clicking on the following presentation links.

Evaluating the Impact of Community Safety
Performance Management
POP and Problem Solving

Hidden Innovation: Matrix were recently commissioned by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to undertake research on how innovation happens in ‘low innovation’ sectors. The Matrix work examined the civil justice sector, (more…)

You can now have access to two guides written by Matrix on reducing avoidable deaths in hospital. The titles of the two guides are Chief Executives lead the way and Medical Directors drive improvement.

The CSIP (Care Services Improvement Partnership) have published a paper written by Matrix on The role of public health in supporting the development of integrated services.

The final report from the national evaluation of the Local Exercise Action Pilots has now been published. (more…)

Matrix has written a report on the Evaluation of the impact, costs and benefits of the Healthcare Commission’s core standard assessment.

NICE commissioned Matrix to produce public health guidance on community-based interventions to reduce substance misuse among vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people. Click here to download the report.

In 2002 the neighbourhood renewal unit (NRU) commissioned Matrix to lead the national evaluation of the street wardens programme. This report provides the findings of the evaluation, which was based on household surveys, case studies and questionnaires. (more…)

Matrix was commissioned by NICE to write two papers on the cost effectiveness of interventions to reduce young people’s substance misuse. You can download the following reports by clicking on the links below.

Rapid review of economic evidence of community-based substance misuse interventions for vulnerable young people (May 2006)

Modelling the cost effectiveness of community-based substance misuse interventions for vulnerable young people (August 2006)

Matrix was commissioned by NICE to write two papers on the cost effectiveness of primary care-based physical activity interventions. You can download the following reports by clicking on the links.

Modelling the cost effectiveness of physical activity interventions

Rapid review of the economic evidence of physical activity interventions

Matrix have recently co-authored a paper with Dr. Nicky Millar from the Home Office’s Research Directorate on how research and evaluation can play an important role in helping to develop more effective agency responses to tackling organised crime.

NHS Modernisation Agency commissioned Matrix to identify and report on the key elements of good care planning for people with long-term conditions. Click here to read the report.

Matrix were commissioned to evaluate the Piloting of drug testing for those arrested having committed certain trigger offences over the course of 2 years. (more…)