Take a look at our latest CECAN update to find out more about what we’ve been working on and activities coming soon.
What We’re Doing
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.
CECAN Webinar: Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis After COVID – the Role of Applied Social Science
On 24th May 2022, David Byrne (Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Applied Social Science, University of Durham) hosted a CECAN webinar.
Pluralistic evaluation framework published in Ecological Economics
Last month saw the publication of our paper outlining a new tool for evaluating policies and projects. This tool has been under development since my fellowship with CECAN in 2017-18, and its publication in the journal Ecological Economics is a milestone for our team.
CECAN Webinar: Evaluating government spending: Findings and recommendations from the latest National Audit Office report
On 15th March 2022, Phil Bradburn (National Audit Office) hosted a CECAN webinar.
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module One – Complexity and its Challenges for Policy and Evaluation
This first workshop focuses on material presented in the first two chapters of the Supplementary Guide, which describes key features of complex systems and the challenges these present both to policy makers, and to those planning, commissioning and undertaking evaluation of policy interventions.
Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation Online Workshop: Module Two – Commissioning and Managing a Complex Evaluation
This second workshop of the series will focus on material presented in chapter three of the Supplementary Guide and explore the particular challenges complexity presents to the management and commissioning of evaluation.