Conference structure
   
   
  The conference will take place from Thursday 23 October to lunchtime on Friday 24 October with pre-conference Training and Professional Development Workshops held on Wednesday 22 October.  Friday afternoon is available for UKES business meetings, professional network meetings and additional conference discussions according to demand.  This allows for three half-day sessions which will be organised so as to allow for discussions among professional peers, moving to discussions within broad programmatic areas of action, and to discussions around evaluation as a service to government, citizenry and institutions.
   
     
    Draft programme
     
   
       
  Wednesday 22 October:
Pre-Conference Professional Workshops
 
       
    Workshop presenters:  
       
   
  • Professor Saville Kushner
    University of the West of England
    Making the most of your evaluation: Addressing the big issues in small-scale evaluations
 
   
  • Anita Gulati
    Inperspective UK Limited
    Evaluation as R&D for the public sector: Using systems theory and chaos theory as diagnostic tools
 
   
  • Professor Gary Henry
    University of North Carolina ( tbc )
 
   
  • Professor Danny Burns
    SOLAR ( tbc)
 
       
  Thursday 23 October:
Conference
 
       
  08.30

Registration

 
  09.15

Introduction to the conference
Professor Saville Kushner , Conference Chair

 
  09.30

Keynote presentation:
Matthew Taylor
Chief Executive ,Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts; Ex-Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister; Ex-Director, Institute for Public Policy Research

 
  10.15

Discussion groups on keynote themes

 
  10.45

Q&A session with Matthew Taylor

 
  11.15
Coffee
 
  11.30
Seminar sessions
 
  13.00

Lunch and Annual General Meeting of the UKES

 
  14.00

Seminar sessions

 
  15.00

Coffee

 
  16.00

Seminar sessions

 
  18.30

Close

 
  20.00
Conference dinner
 
   

 

 
  Friday 24 October:
Conference
 
       
  09.00

UKES Presidential address and introduction to
keynote speaker

 
  09.15

Keynote presentation:
Professor Gary Henry
School of Education , University of North Carolina , USA ;
Ex-President of the American Evaluation Association
Q&A session

 
  10.30

Coffee

 
  11.00

Seminar sessions

 
  12.30

Lunch with discussion and demonstration drop-in sessions

 
  14.00

Expert lectures on key contemporary themes in evaluation

 
   

Evaluation under New Labour: Learning for the future
Professor Helen Sullivan
University of the West of England

 
   

Evaluation independence and good governance
Robert Picciotto
Kings College London

 
   

Rights, complexity and the citizen: Putting humanity back into evaluation
Professor Saville Kushner
University of the West of England

 
  15.00

Endnotes:
Professor Gary Henry reflects with his ‘overseas eye’ on conference discussions
Professor Saville Kushner , Conference Chair closes the conference.

 
  15.30

Post-conference amenities:
UKES Regional Co-ordinators meeting , networking opportunities.

 
 
17.00

Close

 
       
       
 

Seminar sessions (provisional)

There will be seminar sessions on the following themes:

  • Issues in the commissioning, contracting and governance of evaluation
  • Participation, stakeholder engagement and evaluation as social capital
  • Evaluation and evidence-based policy – problems and learning
  • Evaluation and international development
  • Issues in evaluation process, evaluation practice and the utilisation of evaluation
  • How evaluators learn
  • Evaluation in the criminal justice sector (policing evaluation and evaluation of legal practices)
  • Evaluating behavioural change programmes: problems and issues

…and more