Louise Yorke

Senior Research Fellow ยท UCL Institute of Education

Who decides what counts as a policy problem, and what counts as the right response?

My work examines how institutions set priorities, how evidence enters decision-making, and how measurement - and increasingly AI - shape what becomes visible.

Over fifteen years, I've worked across the UK's four nations, Ireland, and Ethiopia, from individual schools to ministers and national policy systems.

Louise Yorke
Public problems Evidence and institutions Measurement and AI

Current work

AI and public decision-making

How should policymakers interpret and govern AI-generated insights?

Evidence, institutions, and the UK's four nations

How do political and institutional contexts shape whether evidence is used in decision-making?

I work with policymakers, researchers, and organisations on how evidence is produced and used in complex systems.

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