UK Evaluation Society

📢 Conference 2025 - Early bird tickets and abstracts portal - now live! ➡️ Monday 19 May 2025 – Online ➡️ Wednesday 21 & Thursday 22 May 2025 – In-person in Glasgow, with keynotes and selected content streamed live Join us to take a deep-dive into what makes evaluations truly insightful: high-quality quantitative and qualitative data. 🎫 Save big with early bird pricing Book now to secure your ticket at a discounted rate - we’ve introduced a new pricing structure with special rates available for students and those working in the voluntary sector. >> Call for Abstracts - Submission portal now open Our dedicated online portal is now open for abstract submissions. It's simple to register and you can start your submission on the portal, save it and edit it until the deadline on Monday 13 January 2025 at 1200 GMT.   To grab your early bird ticket and start submitting your abstract, visit: https://lnkd.in/e5vnnxFr #Evaluation2025 #Data #Conference2025 #Eval25

Miss the live Value for Money webinar? Grab a cuppa and read the post-event blog - you can watch the webinar on-demand too! 🎓 If this topic piques your interest, it's not too late to book for our next VfM training course in March: https://lnkd.in/eAeRt2em (But you'll have to be quick because this course if very popular and regularly sells out!)

⏳ Today's the FINAL day to grab your early bird tickets for the UK's biggest evaluation conference in 2025 - Data in Focus: Driving evaluation excellence. Join us to take a deep-dive into what makes evaluations truly insightful: high-quality data. We're in the midst of a data explosion - transforming how we make decisions, predict trends, and improve efficiency. With ever-increasing capacities to harvest and store data, the challenge now is how to harness the breadth of quantitative and qualitative data to create meaningful value. ➡️ Over three days, you will hear perspectives and ideas that push the boundaries on how we think about and use data in evaluation and the impact of new and emerging technologies. 🌟 Book your ticket today - early bird pricing ends midnight tonight! 🌟 May 19 - Online May 21 & 22 in-person in Glasgow Secure your place now >> https://lnkd.in/eVrzjPn4 #DataInFocus #Evaluation2025 #Evaluation #EvaluationConference

It's not too late to submit an abstract for the largest UK evaluation conference of 2025! Papers chosen for presentation will give speakers access to significantly discounted tickets of £200. Interested? Find out more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e6A_JxxR #UKES2025 #DataInFocus #Evaluation #EvaluationExcellence #EvaluationConference2025

Wishing you a joyful and peaceful festive season, and a New Year filled with hope and happiness from all the the UK Evaluation Society. 🎄 We will be closed from 24 December and re-open on Thursday 2 January 2025. If you contact us during this time we will get back to you as soon as possible in the New Year.

🎤 Over the last week we have announced some incredible keynote speakers for Data in Focus: driving evaluation excellence. But we're not done yet! We'll be announcing more keynotes in the New Year to complete what promises to be an exceptional line-up! 🎫 Have you got your ticket for the biggest UK evaluation conference of 2025? Book an early ticket before 6 January 2025 for the biggest savings >>https://lnkd.in/eVrzjPn4

🗝️ Announcing Data in Focus keynote speaker: Professor Jess Deighton is Director of Applied Research and Evaluation at Anna Freud and Professor of Child Mental Health and Wellbeing at UCL, and Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit. Her expertise focus on: 1) factors that promote or undermine resilience in children and young people; 2) the evaluation of interventions to support mental health and well-being, particularly in educational settings; 3) the interplay between mental health and educational outcomes. She has caried out some of the largest trials and evaluation projects mental health and wellbeing of young people in the school context, including leading the DfE funded Educational for Wellbeing programme and the National lottery funded HeadStart Learning Programme, and co-leads the research programme for #BeeWell. 🎤 Read about all our keynote speakers here >> https://lnkd.in/ePfX4E5F ⏳ Early bird tickets close soon – secure your spot before 6 January 2025! 📝 Are you ready to share new research or a ground-breaking idea? Submit your abstract by 13 January at 1200 GMT #UKES2025 #DataInFocus #Evaluation #EvaluationExcellence #EvaluationConference2025

🗝️ Announcing Data in Focus keynote speaker: Claudia Ibargüen is a highly accomplished evaluation professional with over 15 years of experience in the United Nations system, specialising in advancing evidence-based decision-making and global development. Currently, she serves as Vice Chair of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), promoting high-quality evaluation practices across UN agencies. For the past five years, Claudia has been the Head of Evaluation at UNESCO in Paris, where she leads evaluations of large corporate programmes and strategic issues. She also supports decentralised evaluations of projects implemented across UNESCO’s 54+ field offices. 🎤 Read Claudia's full bio here >> https://lnkd.in/ePfX4E5F ⏳ Early bird tickets close soon – secure your spot before 6 January 2025! 📝 Are you ready to share new research or a ground-breaking idea? Submit your abstract by 13 January at 1200 GMT #UKES2025 #DataInFocus #Evaluation #EvaluationExcellence #EvaluationConference2025 #InternationalDevelopment

🗝️ Announcing Data in Focus keynote speaker: Dr Luke Roberts Dr Luke Roberts (Complexity Thinking) started out as an evaluator working on education, health and community-based projects. Since then, with a focus on conflict resolution and systems thinking, Luke has worked with the NHS Leadership Academy, the Home Office, the Prison and Probation Service, currently chairs the research and evaluation committee at the charity SHiFT and is a Governor of the Ambitious Together Multi-academy Trust. 🎤 Read Luke's full bio here >> https://lnkd.in/ePfX4E5F ⏳ Early bird tickets close soon – secure your spot before 6 January 2025! 📝 Are you ready to share new research or a ground-breaking idea? Submit your abstract by 13 January at 1200 GMT #UKES2025 #DataInFocus #Evaluation #EvaluationExcellence #EvaluationConference2025

🗝️ Announcing Data in Focus keynote speakers: Dr Ailsa Cook & Dr Sarah Morton have pioneered outcome-focused impact assessment through their company Matter of Focus [certified B Corporation]. They have worked with hundreds of organisations, from the public and third sectors to help them set out theories of change, use data and evidence well, embed evaluation and report in an outcome and impact-focused way. Dr Cook has internationally recognised expertise in data and information, evaluation methods, action research, outcomes and evidence to action along with two decades of experience of working with organisations delivering complex change. Dr Morton has 30 years of experience in facilitation and has pioneered using contribution analysis for this kind of work. Sarah is internationally recognised for her work developing innovative approaches to ensure that decision-makers have access to the best evidence for taking organisations, policies and practices forward. 🎤 Read Ailsa and Sarah's full bio here >> https://lnkd.in/ePfX4E5F ⏳ Early bird tickets close soon – secure your spot before 6 January 2025! 📝 Are you ready to share new research or a ground-breaking idea? Submit your abstract by 13 January at 1200 GMT #UKES2025 #DataInFocus #Evaluation #EvaluationExcellence #EvaluationConference2025