The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth: Careful research and evaluation has a crucial role to play in increasing the effectiveness of policy making

For the last six years, Henry Overman directed the Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), based at the LSE. As of September 1st this year, he stepped down from that role to run the new What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. The Centre will aim to ensure that robust evidence is embedded in the development of policy, that these polices are effectively evaluated and that feedback is used to improve them.