CECAN exhibited at the UKES Conference on 10th-11th May with the primary goal of making strong connections in the evaluation community. It was an incredibly valuable two days spent absorbing information from evaluation experts, but also promoting the Centre and networking with enthusiastic people over future opportunities.
The theme of the conference was to explore the current uses of evaluation. Evaluation is a common term in the English language and means different things to different people. It is used in many different ways. The conference explored these issues and in particular how evaluation can become more useful to its commissioners, to the subjects of the evaluation, and to society more widely.