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CECAN is hosting a variety of courses and seminars to which we welcome external participants from Government, academic and public sectors. If you would like to book on to any of our events please contact us early to avoid disappointment.

We also have a limited number of bursaries available to support early career researchers and PhD students working across the social and natural sciences to further develop their skills in policy evaluation methods from a complex systems perspective. Click here for details and to apply.

Future Courses

Past Courses

UKES / CECAN Online Masterclass - Process Tracing Introductory Course
Online, 28 Sep 2020, 09:30-17:00 | Corinna Elsenbroich

UKES / CECAN Online Masterclass – Process Tracing Introductory C…

UKES / CECAN Online Masterclass – Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Online, 18 May 2021, 09:30-17:00 | Corinna Elsenbroich

UKES / CECAN Online Masterclass – Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QC…

CECAN Syllabus CPD Workshop: Agent-Based Modelling for Policy Analysis
Guildford, 16 Jan 2019, 9.30am | Pete Barbrook-Johnson

CECAN Syllabus CPD Workshop: Agent-Based Modelling for Policy Analysis

CECAN Syllabus CPD Workshop: Evaluation Fundamentals - Choosing Appropriate Methods and Assessing Overall Quality of Evaluations
Guildford, 19 Nov 2018, 9.30am | Barbara Befani

CECAN Syllabus CPD Workshop: Evaluation Fundamentals – Choosing …

CECAN Syllabus CPD Workshop: Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Guildford, 19 Jun 2018, 11am | Dave Byrne

CECAN Syllabus CPD Workshop: Qualitative Comparative Analysis

CECAN Syllabus CPD Workshop: Designing Evaluations for Complex Policy Interventions
Guildford, 15 May 2018, 9am | Corinna Elsenbroich et al

CECAN Syllabus CPD Workshop: Designing Evaluations for Complex Policy …

CECAN Short Course: COMPLEX-IT and the SACS Toolkit: A Case-Based Computational Modeling Platform for Data Mining Complex Issues in Policy and Evaluation
Guildford, 7 Jul 2017, 9.30am | Brian Castellani and Corey Schimpf

CECAN Short Course: COMPLEX-IT and the SACS Toolkit: A Case-Based Comp…

CECAN Webinar – The benefits and challenges of conducting research with impact ‘built in’: reflections and findings from an evaluation of Electronic Monitoring with the Ministry of Justice, with Ian Brunton-Smith. 23 Jun, 1 - 2pm BST. Includes live Q&A! Register free: www.cecan.ac.uk/events/cecan...

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*New Resource* - 'Guidance on using large language models to extract cause-and-effect pairs from texts for systems mapping', written by Jordan White and Pete Barbrook-Johnson. See: www.cecan.ac.uk/resources/to...

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