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CECAN Webinar: Developing Systems Approaches in the Water Sector

CECAN Webinar: Developing Systems Approaches in the Water Sector

Tuesday 21st September 2021, 13:00 – 14:00 BST Presenter: Brendan Bromwich, Principal Engineer, Asset Management and Investment Planning, Mott MacDonald Webinar Overview: There is a consistent appeal for a systems approach to be applied to water and environmental...

Evaluation as a Pathway to Transformation for a Sustainable Future

Evaluation as a Pathway to Transformation for a Sustainable Future

In June 2021, the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021) held a series of online workshops as part of its “Transformations Conference 2021: Enabling Positive Tipping Points”. This post shares the learning from one workshop, “Evaluation as a Pathway to Transformation for a Sustainable Future.”

The Participatory System Mapper, PRSM

The Participatory System Mapper, PRSM

CECAN has been developing a new app, called PRSM, which runs in a web browser and which helps groups of people collaboratively develop networks or ‘maps’ of policy and other systems online.

CECAN Special Issue of the Journal ‘Evaluation’: Policy Evaluation for a Complex World

CECAN Special Issue of the Journal ‘Evaluation’: Policy Evaluation for a Complex World

CECAN recently guest edited a special issue of the leading evaluation journal ‘Evaluation’. The issue, written by members of CECAN and some of its collaborators, aims to bring together a set of ideas and methods for handling complexity in evaluation based on extensive practical experience in addressing these issues, from a research perspective, in UK central government evaluation.

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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