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CECAN addresses the tension between developing evaluation methodologies and ensuring their take up, by scoping complex policy ‘case studies’ with co-funders. CECAN has been developing new evaluation approaches and tools on specific policy areas chosen by government departments, facilitating experimentation and giving space for innovation.

CECAN encourages interaction and learning amongst co-funders, policymakers, social scientists and other experts, to form a ‘community of practice’ across Nexus domains.

Browse through a few of the CECAN Case Studies we are able to share publicly.

Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

The Industrial Strategy established Grand Challenges to “put the UK at the forefront of the industries of the future, ensuring that the UK takes advantage of major global changes, improving people’s lives and the country’s productivity”. These are developments in technology that are set to transform industries and societies around the world, and in which the UK has the opportunity to play a leading global role. The Future of Mobility is one of these Grand Challenges, with the aim of the UK becoming a world leader in the way people, goods and services move.

BEIS Energy Innovation Programme

BEIS Energy Innovation Programme

On 25th April 2018, BEIS and CECAN held a workshop bringing together members of the CECAN team with analysis and policy leads in BEIS, responsible for this £505 million programme.  The workshop explored options for the development of an evaluation strategy for the programme; it is the first activity in the ongoing support CECAN will offer in this key policy area. The programme is made of many projects with diverse aims and contexts, and has key objectives around energy innovation, meaning there are many evaluation challenges.

BEIS and the Renewable Heat Incentive: Understanding Complex Applications

BEIS and the Renewable Heat Incentive: Understanding Complex Applications

The aim of the case study was to apply Participatory Systems Mapping to support the current evaluation, and specifically to understand the causal and stakeholder relationships underpinning applications to the RHI to install biomethane and biogas plants, and their outcomes. BEIS and CAG Consultants, the evaluation contractors, believed that the approach would be particularly useful in this context as biomethane and biogas plants typically operate within a wide network of actors, stakeholders and beneficiaries.

BEIS Energy Trilemma

BEIS Energy Trilemma

The aim of the case study was to explore, via CECAN’s approach to participatory systems mapping, the energy trilemma policy landscape. Specifically, it was to map relevant policies, their interaction, context, and impact on the trilemma, and to highlight: the impacts of policies on the three ‘legs’ of the trilemma; potential common and/or contradictory aims and mechanisms amongst policies; and uncertainty and evidence gaps.

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