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    UKES2026

    Sheffield, UK
    18 – 21 May 2026

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TBC   
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AI Masterclass (1)   
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From operational to strategic thinking as an evaluator 1   
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AI Masterclass (2)   
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Building the plane whilst learning to fly: The highs and lows of evaluating Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture   
A0250


From operational to strategic thinking as an evaluator 2   
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Pecha Kucha 1   
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Pecha Kucha 2   
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Pecha Kucha 3   
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Pecha Kucha 4   
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Pecha Kucha 5   
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Poster session   
T0005


Roundtable Discussion: From Evidence to Action, Reframing Organisational Learning Beyond Reputation   
T0008


Community-Led Evaluation: Shifting Power Dynamics from External Assessment to Local Ownership   
T0009


A Failure of Relationships! Do we need a Relational Approach to Evaluation?   
T0011


Making Homes Happen - lessons from the first five years of Homes England's Evaluation Programme   
T0020


Real time evaluation of an End of Life partnership between Marie Curie and University Hospitals Plymouth ICB   
T0022


“We read it, we filed it, we forgot it…”   
T0029


From brush strokes to bold strokes: how a portfolio evaluation can draw out lessons from influencing efforts   
T0034


From Theory to Contribution: Adapting Evaluation to Reflect Complexity in a Partnership-Based Programme   
T0040


From fragmentation to coherence: rethinking MEL assessments    
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Bridging Evidence and Action: A "Principled Adequacy for Purpose" Framework for Methods Selection   
T0044


From evidence to influence - a case from the Caribbean and the evidence fund   
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What stops evaluation from driving change? Reflections on practice and opportunities for action    
T0061


What foundations are needed to facilitate a culture where community stakeholders collaborate to do evaluation to support their learning, inform local practice, and fulfil accountability requirements.   
T0074


Influence in action: putting young people at the heart of Careers Policy.    
T0078


Measuring what matters: A co-production approach to peer support evaluation    
T0095


Evaluating innovation to influence policy and economic opportunities for the UK - learning from Connected Places Catapult evaluation and learning partnership   
T0098


Building an evaluation culture through portfolio-level evaluation: Lessons learned in embedding evaluation across organisations   
T0100


Using a test and learn approach to developing and evaluating Building Choices, the new HMPPS Accredited Offending Behaviour Programme   
T0102


Communicating complex multi-country evaluations: lessons from the UK International Climate Finance portfolio   
T0106


Interrogating epistemic roots in evaluation research and the implications of alternatives for evaluation design and delivery    
T0110


Mapping evidence for better decisions: An introduction to EGMs   
T0111


Powering government through evaluation capability    
T0114


From Data to Action: Using Longitudinal Physician Wellness Data to Shape Health Policy in Canada   
T0118


Towards Universal Metrics & KPIs: Exploring their development and use for objectives setting & evaluation   
T0124


Evidence in search of an audience: Telling the tale so it gets heard    
T0126


Lens of Change: How Young People’s Photos and Drawings Are Humanising Evaluation in Ghana, Mali and Senegal   
T0144


From Evaluation to Action: Integrating Service Design to Enhance Breast Cancer Care   
T0145


Putting the Apprentice Voice at the heart of delivery: the impact of the Provider Benchmarking tool on continuously improving training delivery in Scotland.   
T0147


Sharing insights from the Transforming UK Food Systems Programme: how visually engaging, collaborative toolkits can connect evaluation to developing pathways to impact   
T0153


Adopting new approaches in health and care evaluation: shifting from systems thinking to systems ‘doing’   
T0154


Using the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) to inform and support programme delivery – perspectives from implementing organisations and research   
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Peer Evaluation of the ‘Collaboration Kickstarter’: co-producing an evidence base for research culture change through participatory grant making   
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The role of a Learning Implementation Partner in supporting vocational education and training (VET) providers to integrate evidence into programme design and delivery    
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Redefining Evaluation Success: Introducing the CUTE Framework (Credibility, Usefulness, Timeliness, Efficiency)   
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Embedding evaluation: Insights on evaluation of public participation processes.    
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Human-in-the-loop evaluations: myth-busting and setting realistic expectations on how AI can be used in evaluations.    
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Bridging Evidence into Action: Embedding an Evaluation Culture through an Organisation-wide Evaluation Champions Network    
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Turning Evidence into Action: Management Responses in UN Evaluations as Mechanisms of Organizational Learning, Accountability, and Policy Influence    
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A shared journey: practical approaches to community-centred and inclusive evaluation to help turn evidence into action   
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Safe by design: how evaluation evidence is rewiring education policy and practice to prevent youth violence   
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Shifting the Power! Lessons from Youth Evaluation Teams in Ecuador, Ghana and Senegal    
T0207


Communicating Evaluation for Action: Turning Evidence into Life-Saving Practice   
T0208


From Interviews to Action: Outcome Harvesting with AI Interviewers    
T0210


Strengthening a Culture of Evaluation in Welsh Government: Building Capacity, Confidence, and Connection   
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Societal impact research evaluation: discussing the implications of Global North vs Global South contextual differences   
T0219


Evaluation: toward harmonized terminology and typologies   
T0220


Building evaluation cultures across the VCSE   
T0221


Embedding evaluation in a complex multi-sector knowledge network: Learning from the Network to Reduce Gambling Harms   
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#ChangeBusters: Using game-based pedagogy to build evaluation capacity and cultures in UK higher Education organisations.   
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From Evaluation to Impact: Innovation, Adaptive Learning and Evidence-based Action in the DBI Programme   
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Aligning Mandates: A Strategic Framework for Evaluation Culture development across Departments and Regulators   
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How changing policy scenarios will redefine evaluation use and its connection to policy action   
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Making Evaluations Matter: Evaluator and Commissioner Perspectives on Shaping Policy and Practice in Kosovo   
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From Insight to Impact: How the M&E Hub in DESNZ is embedding Evaluation for Action    
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From evidence to implementation: Using Realist Evaluation to address professional resistance to Contingency Management in NHS Addiction services   
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Adaptive evaluation in action: evaluating UK SHORE for the Department of Transport   
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Strengthening Evaluation Capacity in Africa: Evidence from AGDEN’s Multi-Country Tracer Study on Gender-Responsive and Human-Rights–Based Evaluation Practice   
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Building Uganda's Evaluation Ecosystem: Capacity, Practice, and Impact   
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Scaling Value for Investment: Safeguarding Fidelity While Enabling Flexibility   
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Designing Evaluation to Influence Policy in Complex Initiatives: Two International Examples from Yemen and Australia   
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