Valedictory Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences Conference
20th and 21st May 2025, York
Presentations
The following presentations were given at the 2025 Valedictory Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences Conference and are now available.
Tuesday 20th May
Invited Speaker Ben Styles: Experimental education research: clarifying why, how and when to use random assignment RCTs Presentation - Ben Styles (PDF 
, 1,204kb)
Peter Darch: Trial by Algorithm: An Ethical Audit of AI RCTs in Criminal Justice RCTs Presentation - Peter Darch (PDF , 925kb)
Palak Roy, Helen Poet, Ruth Staunton, Katherine Aston, and David Thomas: ChatGPT in Lesson Preparation: A Teacher Choices Trial with additional EEF presentation by Faizaan Sami RCTs Presentation - Palak Roy (PDF , 690kb)
Erin Dysart, Louise Tracey, Aimee Code, and Nathan Archer: Conducting RCTs in Early Years Settings: What RCTs and pilot studies tell us about participant engagement RCTs Presentation - Erin Dysart (PDF , 796kb)
Louise Tracey and Carole Torgerson: Integrating impact evaluations and implementation and process evaluations in mixed methods research in education RCTs Presentation - Louise Tracey (PDF , 979kb)
Angelo Valerio, Daniel Woodell, and Alison Cousley: Department for Work and Pensions Universal Credit Work Search Review Channels Trial For further information please contact Angelo Valerio ANGELO.VALERIO@dwp.gov.uk
Joakim Finne, Anne Grete Tøge, Kjersti Stabell Wiggen, Maria Ekre, Ira Malmberg-Heimonen, Maiken Pontoppidan, Jacinthe Dion, Truls Tømmerås, and Eirin Pedersen: Results from a randomized controlled pilot trial of a home-visiting intervention to reduce child maltreatment RCTs Presentation - Joakim Finne (PDF , 1,837kb)
Anne Grete Toge, Ira Malmberg-Heimonen, Susanne Søholt, and Sigridur Vilhjalmsdottir: A feasibility study and randomised controlled pilot trial of a multilingual support intervention for refugees RCTs Conference - Anne Grete Toga (PDF , 2,744kb)
Seemanti Ghosh: Poverty and perseverance: Power of personal connection For further information please contact Seemanti Ghosh seemanti.ghosh@employment-studies.co.uk
Andrew Smith: NELI scale-up evaluation RCTs Presentation - Andrew Smith (PDF , 1,053kb)
Invited Speaker Peter John: The practical challenges of delivering field trials: how to reduce hassle and costs RCTs Presentation - Peter John (PDF , 1,941kb)
Wednesday 21st May
Invited Speaker Sheila Bird: Platform for well-powered, well-chosen social science trials is NOW. RCTs Presentation - Sheila Bird (PDF , 1,469kb)
Koray Aktas, Gianluca Argentin, Gian Paolo Barbetta, and Luca Colombo: Is it worth studying? The role of information on the school choice of foreign students in Italy. Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) RCTs Presentation - Gianpaolo Barbetta (PDF , 361kb)
Xiaofei Qi, Victoria Menzies, Rachel Oughton, Nadia Siddiqui, Akansha Singh, and Laura Chambers: Evaluation of an Early Language intervention programme for nursery practitioners in Greater London: A two-armed cluster randomised waitlist-controlled trial with split cohorts For further information please contact Xiaofei Qi xiaofei.qi@durham.ac.uk
Danielle Matthews et al: Promoting Parental Support of Early Child Language Development: An RCT to evaluate a text messaging service with BBC Tiny Happy People video content RCTs Presentation - Danielle Matthews (PDF , 3,473kb)
Davide Azzolini: Effects of a Matched Savings Program to Tackle School Dropout in Italy RCTs Presentation - Davide Azzolini (PDF , 1,333kb)
Gianluca Argentin and Elisa Manzella: The role of biased teachers guidance in the reproduction of education inequalities. Evidence from an RCT combined with a factorial survey experiment For further information please contact Gianluca Argentin gianluca.argentin@unimib.it
Victoria Menzies and Helen Cramman: Failure to replicate: Two trials of a parent and child early years reading programme. Where do we go from here? RCTs Presentation - Victoria Menzies (PDF , 923kb)
RCTs 2025 Conference Programme (PDF , 175kb)