ABM for the Social Scientist: A Practical Guide to Model Building and NetLogo, with Corinna Elsenbroich (CECAN Ltd) and Jen Badham (Durham University)
CPD Courses
CECAN Webinar – Integrating Health, Wellbeing, Nature and Sustainability (HWNS) into local, strategic planning: learning from the co-development of a practical systems approach to place-making
Natural England, with partners including the Environment Agency, Local Partnerships, What Works Wellbeing and Local Authorities, have been co-developing and testing a systems approach that aims to support better outcomes across health, wellbeing, nature and sustainability (HWNS) through local place-making.
CECAN Webinar – Navigating System Change Evaluation: reflections on how to know you are making progress in shifting systems
Social Finance, in partnership with the System Innovation Initiative, spent 12 months between 2022 and 2023 exploring how evaluation works for system change.
Looking Back and Looking Forward: Closing the loop from evaluation to policy making (Hybrid Event)
You are warmly invited to attend CECAN’s conference, ‘Looking Back and Looking Forward: Closing the loop from evaluation to policy making’ on Tuesday 4th June 2024.
Can we generate value profiles from policy documents?
What kinds of value do policies seek to deliver? A trivial answer would be “value for money”, but this doesn’t say anything about the kinds of value that we seek to maximise with respect to expenditure.
CECAN Update (July 2023)
Take a look at our latest CECAN update to find out more about what we’ve been working on and activities coming soon.
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Three – Commissioning and Managing a Complex Evaluation
The ‘Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation’ workshop series provides you with knowledge and practical advice to allow you to deal with complexity in policy analysis and evaluation.
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Two – Selecting an Appropriate Evaluation Approach
The ‘Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation’ workshop series provides you with knowledge and practical advice to allow you to deal with complexity in policy analysis and evaluation.
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module One – Complexity and its Challenges for Policy and Evaluation
The ‘Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation’ workshop series provides you with knowledge and practical advice to allow you to deal with complexity in policy analysis and evaluation.
UKES / CECAN Online Masterclass – Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
This course is an introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). QCA is a method for the comparative study of cases and is used to analyse qualitative social data systematically.
CECAN Webinar: New Economic Models of the Energy Transition
This webinar will present work from the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition (EEIST) project, a Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation funded project applying complexity and systems approaches in ex ante appraisal of energy and climate policy.
CECAN Webinar: Setting Boundaries in Evaluation; The role of Critical Systems Heuristics
This interactive presentation will use a case example to explore the use of Critical Systems Heuristics in evaluation design, implementation and reporting.
CECAN Project Report (February 2023)
The CECAN Progress report (March 2016 – February 2023) provides an overview of the project, its findings, and impacts.
CECAN Webinar: Reflecting and Learning: Using Contribution Analysis
On 18th January 2023, Catherine Currie (Independent Evaluation Consultant) hosted a CECAN webinar.
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Three – Commissioning and Managing a Complex Evaluation
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Three – Commissioning and Managing a Complex Evaluation
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Two – Selecting an Appropriate Evaluation Approach
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Two – Selecting an Appropriate Evaluation Approach
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module One – Complexity and its Challenges for Policy and Evaluation
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module One – Complexity and its Challenges for Policy and Evaluation
CECAN Webinar: Reflecting and Learning: Using Contribution Analysis
CECAN Webinar: Reflecting and Learning: Using Contribution Analysis
CECAN Webinar: Cynefin – Navigating Uncertainty
On 18th October 2022, Dave Snowden (Director & Founder – The Cynefin Centre) hosted a CECAN webinar.
Health CASCADE Workshop: Co-producing complex systems interventions for public health
On 28th and 29th Sept 2022, Brian Castellani (CECAN Partner and Professor of Sociology, University of Durham) had the opportunity to present on Co-producing complex systems interventions for public health.
Health CASCADE Workshop: Co-producing complex systems interventions for public health
By Brian Castellani, Professor of Sociology (University of Durham).
BOOK LAUNCH: Systems Mapping: how to build and use causal models of systems by Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alexandra Penn
On 27th September, a virtual book launch was held for the new open access book on systems mapping by CECAN members Dr Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Dr Alexandra Penn.
It’s time for the UK government to embrace systems mapping
By Pete Barbrook-Johnson, co-author of Systems Mapping: How to build and use causal models of systems (Palgrave, 2022)
BOOK LAUNCH: Systems Mapping: how to build and use causal models of systems by Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alexandra Penn
Please join us for this virtual book launch for the new open access book (i.e. free PDF available) on systems mapping by CECAN members Dr Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Dr Alexandra Penn.
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module One – Complexity and its Challenges for Policy and Evaluation
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module One – Complexity and its Challenges for Policy and Evaluation
UKES / CECAN Online Masterclass – Process Tracing
Process Tracing is a method used to understand causal chains in single case analysis settings. It is the systematic analysis of contribution claims through explicit investigation of how pieces of evidence support or undermine a particular hypothesis or claim.
CECAN Webinar: Cynefin – Navigating Uncertainty
This presentation will outline a new process for mapping strategic opportunities based on the guide, along with the core steps needed to build a future-fit organisations.
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Two – Selecting an Appropriate Evaluation Approach
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Two – Selecting an Appropriate Evaluation Approach
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Three – Commissioning and Managing a Complex Evaluation
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Three – Commissioning and Managing a Complex Evaluation
CECAN Webinar: An update of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Framework for Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions
On 15th June 2022, Kathryn Skivington & Laurence Moore (MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow) hosted a CECAN webinar.