Bridging the Gap: evaluation to action
UKES2026
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UKES2026
Sheffield, UK
18 – 21 May 2026
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Building What Works: Evaluation insights from King’s College London’s K+ widening participation programme.
T0004
Building an Impact Culture from the Ground Up: A Case Study from a Global Food Awareness Charity
T0007
Title: Strengthening Community-Based Development through Faith-Informed Evaluation Practices in Rural Rwanda
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
T0012
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Using Rapid Evaluation to Develop Housing Policy
T0015
Education for Seriti: A Critical-Realist and Tswana-Centric Capabilities Evaluation of Botswana's Top Achievers Scholarship Programme
T0016
Evaluating Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine in a Rural and Coastal Opioid Treatment Services: A Mixed-Methods Approach in Cornwall, England
T0017
Three practical strategies for translating evaluation into action
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Co-Creating Evaluation Cultures: Creative Methods and Policy Insights from the Into the Light place-based cultural programme in County Durham
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Navigating Evaluation: Strategies for Building an Evaluation Culture in Complex Organisations
T0020
Real time evaluation of an End of Life partnership between Marie Curie and University Hospitals Plymouth ICB
T0021
Everyone’s invited: growing shared outcomes into evaluation culture
T0022
We read it, we filed it, we forgot it
T0024
How does youth engagement inform local government decision-making? Insights from a local council in England
T0025
Commissioning Better (Evaluation) Outcomes: How to build an effective evaluation culture in a 12-year evaluation
T0028
Bridging Theory and Practice: The Evolution of Federal Evaluation Policy in Canada
T0029
From brush strokes to bold strokes: how a portfolio evaluation can draw out lessons from influencing efforts
T0030
From paper to practice: turning sustainability concepts into evaluation.
T0032
Building an evaluation culture: Embedding learning in Mercy Corps’ GIRL-H programme for adolescent girls
T0034
From Theory to Contribution: Adapting Evaluation to Reflect Complexity in a Partnership-Based Programme
T0035
Evaluating the Targeted Lung Health Check Programme: building the real-world case for change for lung cancer screening
T0036
From tactic to treaty… Theories of Change for influencing and diplomacy interventions.
T0039
Outcome Harvesting in Action: Evaluation of AHRC's Follow-on Funding Scheme
T0040
From fragmentation to coherence: rethinking MEL assessments
T0041
Embedding Strategic Evaluation in a Mayoral Combined Authority: Developing an Outcomes Framework for West Yorkshire
T0042
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
T0047
How does capability, capacity, and consciousness in whole system place based working develop: A physical activity realist stakeholder analysis
T0049
Building Evaluation Cultures through Participatory Micro-RCTs and Story-Led Evidence
T0051
Embedding Feminist Evaluation Cultures in Climate Governance: Insights from Kenya, Nigeria & Pakistan
T0052
Evaluability assessment as a tool for evidencing impact for global advocacy for humane dog population management
T0054
ReAct: Embedding evaluation to create real-time change
T0056
What stops evaluation from driving change? Reflections on practice and opportunities for action
T0057
Exploring the Intersection of Evaluation Policy and Capacity Building: Insights from the Canadian Federal Context
T0059
Influencing policy & commissioning through evaluating the real value of care
T0060
How can we use systemic, feminist, decolonial and humanising approaches when working with thousands of microstories on a shoestring and short turnaround? Join this session for a practical example.
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.
T0062
Changing systems, changing mindsets: embedding evidence-based leadership in local systems. Lessons from the Changemakers Implementation and Process Evaluation.
T0067
Getting evaluation evidence into use: the role of evidence-based decision-making products
T0069
Adapting realist and participatory approaches to evaluate a multi-faceted intervention in communities affected by podoconiosis in rural Ethiopia
T0071
Bridging the gap between academic research and actionable insights through a collaborative PhD Programme focusing on innovative skills research and researcher development.
T0072
Using the realist evaluation approach to challenge programme assumptions and promote stakeholder learning: A case of a health research capacity strengthening programme
T0073
The Nourish school food improvement programme: connecting frontline and evaluation teams through adaptive evaluation
T0074
Influence in action: putting young people at the heart of Careers Policy.
T0075
Introduction to EvalC3 online
T0076
Is It Worth Evaluating the Construction Phase of Major Scientific Infrastructure? Insights from the National Satellite Test Facility.
T0077
Building the plane whilst learning to fly: The highs and lows of evaluating Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture
T0078
Measuring what matters: A co-production approach to peer support evaluation
T0079
Inspiring a Sector: how evaluation informs action to help the nation be more active
T0080
Implementing an evaluation culture in a research team
T0083
The “equity knot”: Negotiating equity in participatory evaluation of systems change
T0085
Festivals with Benefits
T0086
The ACCESS Guiding Principles Framework: The role of reflection and evaluation in enacting sustainable, inclusive and co-productive research cultures
T0087
What if we’re wrong? Using hypothesis testing to support reflection, test assumptions and learn lessons in digital democracy support.
T0089
Piloting collaborative evaluation approaches in the ‘Fashion Practices for Social Change’ unit at LCF: Making space for staff and student voice in evaluation for the purpose of curriculum development
T0090
Bridging the gap between evidence and policy: driving accountability via Evidence-to-Action workshops
T0092
Shaping the Tech for Better Care Programme through developmental evaluation: harnessing evidence in complex systems for timely decision making and learning.
T0094
Why are summer learning programmes important for vulnerable students? Understanding programme impacts through drawings and stories of ‘Most Significant Change’
T0095
Evaluating innovation to influence policy and economic opportunities for the UK - learning from Connected Places Catapult evaluation and learning partnership
T0096
Creating Evidence-Ready Teams: Lessons from Pause & Reflect Practice Across Humanitarian and Development Programs
T0097
Developing digital tools to support evaluation in higher education
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Building an evaluation culture through portfolio-level evaluation: Lessons learned in embedding evaluation across organisations
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Using a test and learn approach to developing and evaluating Building Choices, the new HMPPS Accredited Offending Behaviour Programme
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The value of visual metaphor in critically reflecting on how inequalities take shape within evaluation practice: A qualitative study with health system actors in England
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Communicating complex multi-country evaluations: lessons from the UK International Climate Finance portfolio
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Understanding Attendance: Building the Bridge from Evaluation to Action
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Developing Evaluation Triangles: A Visual Representation of a Systems-Based Approach to Evaluating Marine Plan Objectives and Policy Effectiveness
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Interrogating epistemic roots in evaluation research and the implications of alternatives for evaluation design and delivery
T0107
Stories of Change: Using hindsight in form of a Letter to Your Younger Self to understand the learning of leaders implementing a wholes systems approach
T0108
Improving Value for Money through economic evaluation at scale and sharing cost data as a public good
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Empowering participatory evaluation – Building the evaluative culture at the Media School, University of the Arts London.
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Mapping evidence for better decisions: An introduction to EGMs
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Powering government through evaluation capability
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Closing the Evidence-Action Gap: Iterative Evaluation in a SEL Sports Program for Children
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Participatory approaches: Using Ripple Effects Mapping to evaluate a local authority research training programme
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From Data to Action: Using Longitudinal Physician Wellness Data to Shape Health Policy in Canada
T0116
Tracing Contribution: Lessons from Applying Contribution Analysis in Energy and Environment Policy Evaluations
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Building evaluation cultures through participatory, user-led methods: Lessons from applying PVMSC in the Healthy Cities for Adolescents programme
T0118
Towards Universal Metrics & KPIs: Exploring their development and use for objectives setting & evaluation
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Beyond utility: Why good evaluations don't get used: How to use influence to stop wasting money and close the gap between evaluation quality and organisational change.
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
T0128
Tracking What Works: EEF’s Approaches to Longitudinal Evaluation
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Evaluating from Within: Learning What It Takes to Embed Evaluation Across a System
T0130
The Unsteady Pulse of Evidence: Two Decades of Navigating Politics, Administration, and Donor Dynamics to Build a Government Monitoring and Evaluation System in Uganda
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Strengthening evidence-informed policy in fragile contexts: insights from Ukraine’s national evaluation system
T0133
Driving impact: Delivering timely, actionable evaluation insights for adaptive programme design – lessons from interim evaluation of DSIT’s 5G Innovation Regions Programme
T0134
How Can We Capture ‘Transformational Change’? Turning the UK’s ICF KPI 15 Framework into a Tool for Transformative Action
T0135
Evaluating Equity: Building a Learning and Evidence Culture in a Volunteer-Led Widening Participation Charity
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Bridging the Gap Between Different Strata of Evaluation
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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Complex Climate-Health Systems: Insights from PAICE
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From influence to implementation: contribution analysis of PLANE’s policy support for systemic education reform in Nigeria (2023–2025)
T0143
Mapping the Network That Supports Suffolk's Physical Activity Participation: A Participatory and AI-Assisted Approach to Network Analysis
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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.
T0146
Shaping global, regional and national responses to strengthening AMR surveillance through formative evaluation
T0147
Sharing insights from the Transforming UK Food Systems Programme: how visually engaging, collaborative toolkits can connect evaluation to developing pathways to impact
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Causal mapping in action: evaluative visualisations
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Adopting new approaches in health and care evaluation: shifting from systems thinking to systems ‘doing’
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Using the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) to inform and support programme delivery – perspectives from implementing organisations and research
T0155
The utility of stakeholder engagement in developing a robust theory of change for Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation
T0157
From Evaluation to Evolution: How a Learning Partnership Approach Helped Refine a Children and Young People’s Social Prescribing Programme.
T0158
Evidence-Informed Evaluation Framework for Sustainability Interventions: A Co-Design Experience in Brazilian Municipalities
T0160
Real-Time Improvement in Acute Care Settings: applying the Implementation Research Logic Model and Theoretical Domains Framework within the developmental evaluation of a suicide prevention pathway
T0162
From complexity to clarity: making economic evaluation work for local mental health funding
T0163
Co-Producing or Performing Societal Impact? A Typology of University-Stakeholder Interactions
T0164
Theory of change for action: Drawing together automation, real-time reporting and baked goods to allow all stakeholders to reap the rewards of theory-based evaluation approaches
T0165
Peer Evaluation of the ‘Collaboration Kickstarter’: co-producing an evidence base for research culture change through participatory grant making
T0167
The role of a Learning Implementation Partner in supporting vocational education and training (VET) providers to integrate evidence into programme design and delivery
T0168
Influencing the World Resources Institute (WRI) policy and programming through strategic evaluation
T0172
From Evidence to Action: Strategic and operational change in working in fragile contexts of Sahel West Africa and dry corridor countries in Latin America, through evaluative evidence
T0173
Using evaluation as a developmental tool: Findings and lessons from a feasibility study of the Restart programme
T0175
Evaluating Complexity in Sport and Physical Activity
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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.
T0180
Evaluation at the Heart of Digital Interventions in the Department for Business and Trade
T0181
Building Capacity for AI and Evaluation in Homelessness Prevention: Early Insights from Two Randomised Controlled Trials
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Changing the goal posts: evaluation as a catalyst for policy innovation in place-based systemic approaches to tackle physical activity inequalities
T0183
Human-in-the-loop evaluations: myth-busting and setting realistic expectations on how AI can be used in evaluations.
T0184
MEL Systems Reviews for Humanitarian Portfolios
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“Well, if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: The role of evidence and learning partnerships in building evaluative cultures
T0186
From Insight to Action: Embedding Learning and Evidence in Everyday Decisions
T0187
Evaluating the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme – Lessons for Policy and Programme Adaptation
T0188
How Continuous Monitoring Drives Adoption and Scale-Up of Digital ID in Routine Immunisation: Lessons from Ghana
T0189
Portoli-OMG! Reflections and learning from evaluating mega-portfolios
T0190
Bridging Evidence into Action: Embedding an Evaluation Culture through an Organisation-wide Evaluation Champions Network
T0191
Looking Backwards and Forwards – How Evaluation and Futures Thinking Shaped Natural England’s new Science Strategy
T0193
Harnessing AI for Education Evaluation: Insights from Commissioning and Practice
T0194
Turning Evidence into Action: Management Responses in UN Evaluations as Mechanisms of Organizational Learning, Accountability, and Policy Influence
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Evidence into Action: Evaluation to inform practice and adaptation in a play-based learning education programme
T0196
A shared journey: practical approaches to community-centred and inclusive evaluation to help turn evidence into action
T0199
Safe by design: how evaluation evidence is rewiring education policy and practice to prevent youth violence
T0200
Embedding Evaluation Culture In A Time of Uncertain Funding Future
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Rethinking housing policy: strategic evaluation for real-world impact
T0202
Smartness does not Mean Sustainability: Evidence from evaluating Brazilian Cities Through Smart City Rankings and SDG Indicators
T0205
From Evaluation to Action: Early Insights from the Refugee Employability Programme in England
T0206
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
T0209
Meaningful engagement as a path to building sustainable evaluation cultures: Insights from evaluating targeted youth interventions in England
T0210
Strengthening a Culture of Evaluation in Welsh Government: Building Capacity, Confidence, and Connection
T0213
From evaluation to embedded learning: building cultures of reflection and trust
T0214
Bridging the gap between quali and quanti: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis QCA with survey data to identify successful pathways in a large population for the Behaviour Hubs programme evaluation
T0216
Communicating Evaluation Results: Inclusive Health & Rehabilitation Services for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in Chhattisgarh, India - A Case Illustration.
T0217
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
T0222
#ChangeBusters: Using game-based pedagogy to build evaluation capacity and cultures in UK higher Education organisations.
T0223
From Evaluation to Impact: Innovation, Adaptive Learning and Evidence-based Action in the DBI Programme
T0225
Co-creating trust: Aligning evaluation expectations in high-stakes policy reform
T0226
Co-Creating an Evaluation Culture: Navigating Power, Participation, and Adaptation in Complex Systems
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How changing policy scenarios will redefine evaluation use and its connection to policy action
T0230
Holding space for learning: Embedding evaluation cultures through reflective practice
T0231
Making Evaluations Matter: Evaluator and Commissioner Perspectives on Shaping Policy and Practice in Kosovo
T0233
Beyond Metrics? Participatory and creative evaluation-to-policy impacts for climate resilience and policy influence
T0235
Strengthening Collaboration Across Services: Learning from Research on Multiple Disadvantage
T0237
Causal Mapping in Practice: 40-minute hands-on with Causal Map 4
T0239
Breaking New Ground: Ethical and Robust Evaluation of Domestic Abuse Recovery Services for Children
T0242
Reimagining Evaluation Consulting: The Case for Learning Partnerships in Education and Youth Services
T0243
Scaling Automated Programmatic and Global Aggregated Indicator Targets vs Actuals Reporting: Turning Real-Time Evaluation Data into Timely, Actionable Insights through MEL Technologies
T0244
From Insight to Impact: How the M&E Hub in DESNZ is embedding Evaluation for Action
T0245
"From evidence to implementation: Using Realist Evaluation to address professional resistance to Contingency Management in NHS Addiction services"
T0246
Exploring Participatory and Co-creation Methods for longitudinal evaluations in collaborative RDI contexts: unpacking mechanisms of collaborative value creation and collaborative capital building
T0247
Adaptive evaluation in action: evaluating UK SHORE for the Department of Transport
T0249
From Silos to Synergy: How Collaboration Built Co-op Foundation’s Evaluation Culture
T0250
Strengthening Evaluation Capacity in Africa: Evidence from AGDEN’s Multi-Country Tracer Study on Gender-Responsive and Human-Rights–Based Evaluation Practice
T0251
Developmental Evaluation as a Catalyst for Systemic Change: Lessons from Climate and Social Justice Programming
T0252
From complexity to confidence: practical approaches to engaging stakeholders in a theory-based contribution tracing evaluation
T0253
From Verification to Value: Making Third-Party Monitoring Evidence Evaluation-Ready (Lessons from Myanmar)
T0254
AI in Evaluation: Learn Tools and Workflows from UN Case Studies with >90% Validated Accuracy
T0255
Evaluating Equalities impacts of FCDO Programming in Somalia: Evidence to Inform Adaptive Programming Under Policy Shifts and Reduced ODA Funding
T0258
Evaluating for Scale: Scalability Assessments for Decision Makers
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