Bridging the Gap: evaluation to action
UKES2026
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UKES2026
Sheffield, UK
18 – 21 May 2026
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A0247
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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Poster session
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
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
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
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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
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
T0154
Using the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) to inform and support programme delivery – perspectives from implementing organisations and research
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
T0178
Redefining Evaluation Success: Introducing the CUTE Framework (Credibility, Usefulness, Timeliness, Efficiency)
T0183
Human-in-the-loop evaluations: myth-busting and setting realistic expectations on how AI can be used in evaluations.
T0190
Bridging Evidence into Action: Embedding an Evaluation Culture through an Organisation-wide Evaluation Champions Network
T0194
Turning Evidence into Action: Management Responses in UN Evaluations as Mechanisms of Organizational Learning, Accountability, and Policy Influence
T0199
Safe by design: how evaluation evidence is rewiring education policy and practice to prevent youth violence
T0208
From Interviews to Action: Outcome Harvesting with AI Interviewers
T0210
Strengthening a Culture of Evaluation in Welsh Government: Building Capacity, Confidence, and Connection
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
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
Aligning Mandates: A Strategic Framework for Evaluation Culture development across Departments and Regulators
T0229
How changing policy scenarios will redefine evaluation use and its connection to policy action
T0231
Making Evaluations Matter: Evaluator and Commissioner Perspectives on Shaping Policy and Practice in Kosovo
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
T0247
Adaptive evaluation in action: evaluating UK SHORE for the Department of Transport
T0250
Strengthening Evaluation Capacity in Africa: Evidence from AGDEN’s Multi-Country Tracer Study on Gender-Responsive and Human-Rights–Based Evaluation Practice
UG01
Building Uganda's Evaluation Ecosystem: Capacity, Practice, and Impact
VFM01
Scaling Value for Investment: Safeguarding Fidelity While Enabling Flexibility
VFM02
Designing Evaluation to Influence Policy in Complex Initiatives: Two International Examples from Yemen and Australia
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