Evidence and Doubt, Science and Policy, Seminar for the Centre for Criminal Justice Economics and Psychology, University of York, April 2008

with Baxter P. D. (2007) The Evaluation of an Area-Level Crime Reduction Intervention. A presentation given at the Royal Statistical Society Conference held at York, July 2007

with Baxter P. D., (2007) “The effect of regression towards the mean in assessing crime reduction interventions using non-randomised trials.” A presentation given at the Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, London 14-16 May 2007

Investigating whether a crime reduction measure works. Radical Statistics (2006) No91 p46 http://www.radstats.org.uk/no091/Marchant91.pdf

Experimental design in social research - Do we for example really know what works against crime? The slides from an invited seminar given at the Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester Dec 2006 http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/seminars/2006-autumn/ExptDesinSocResearchC.ppt

Are the claims for lighting benefit true? How can we tell? Slides from a presentation at the 6th European Dark-Skies Symposium 2006 Sept 15-16 Portsmouth. Presentation available at http://www.britastro.org/dark-skies/cfds2006/ and also see Chapter 7 of the Proceedings http://www.britastro.org/dark-skies/cfds2006/proceedings.pdf

Shining a light on evidence based policy: street lighting and crime, Criminal Justice Matters (2006)No. 62 Uses of Research p18, The Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, Kings College, London

"Evaluating area-wide crime-reduction measures" Significance (Publication of the Royal Statistical Society) Vol. 2, Issue 2, June 2005, p62 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/toc/sign/2/2

"What works? a critical note on the evaluation of crime reduction initiatives." Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal 2005 Vol 7, Issue 2, pp7-13 http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cpcs/journal/v7/n2/abs/8140214a.html

"What works? how do we know?" Draft article on the problems in evaluating area-based interventions, later evolving into Crime Prevention and Community Safety article above.

"A demonstration that the claim that brighter lighting reduces crime is unfounded", British Journal of Criminology, 44, 2004, pp.441-447.

More general talks etc on evidence and sound science

“Statistics and Ethics: a Powerful Mix.” A presentation given to the Leeds & Bradford RSS 21 May 2008

“What works and what is worth it; Science versus the rest.” A presentation given at the Innovation North Research Conference 11 July 2007

A transcribed interview with the Nordic Campbell Collaboration (2005) “Let the evidence talk”  http://www.sfi.dk/sw25874.asp

"Ethics, statistics and research ethics committees" A talk given to the Humber Local Group of the Royal Statistical Society on 7th October 2003, closely related to one given earlier to the Medical Section of the Royal Statistical Society.

Other recent papers

Marchant PR, Hussain A, and Hall, K (2006), Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Asian Children, British Journal of Educational Studies 54 2, pp230-244

Ross A, Winslow I, Marchant PR and Brumfitt S (2006), Evaluation of communication, life participation and psychological well being in chronic aphasia: the influence of group intervention. Aphasiology 20, pp427–448

Kessler J, Marchant PR and Johnson MI (2006) A study to compare the effects of massage and static touch on experimentally-induced pain in healthy volunteers Physiotherapy 92 225-232

Steen M and Marchant PR (2007) Ice packs and cooling gel pads versus no localised treatment for relief of perineal pain: a randomised controlled trial, Evidence Based Midwifery 5(1) 16-22

East CE, Begg L, Henshall NE, Marchant PR and Wallace K Local cooling for relieving pain from perineal trauma sustained during childbirth. Cochrane Review, October 2007 - http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD006304/pdf_fs.html

Marchant PR Contributor to the International Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences 2^nd Edition: The entry on ‘Regression towards the Mean’. Published by Thomson Gale, 2008

Other writings

An article on environmental concerns: "The Long View and the Big Picture" by Paul Marchant, Originally prepared in 1992. Subsequently published, in 1994, in Perspectives towards Sustainable Environmental Development. Ed Colin C Williams and Graham Haughton, published by Avebury Studies in Green Research.