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UKEvaluation Society Annual Conference 2001
Evaluation and Transition: devolution, diversity and evidence based change
5-7 December 2001, W5, Queen's Island, Belfast

Keynote speakers:
*       Phil Davies, Deputy Director, Centre for Management and Policy Studies, Cabinet Office
*       Jim Connell, IRRE, Philadelphia, USA
*       Mike Morrissey, University of Ulster
*       Sandra Nutley, Department of Management, St Andrews University
Conference Theme
The theme of this year's conference addresses issues of social and political transition and change occurring in the UK and internationally. There has been a growing awareness of the role that evaluation might play in supporting and developing capacity during periods of rapid change. Making sense of the change process, including a variety of stakeholding perspectives in policy reflection and providing participants with resources to create "provisional stability" during the change process are among the activities evaluation might enable.
The theme of the conference will be approached through three broad strands:
*       Devolution - How to build capacity and strengthen devolved institutions through evaluation?
*       Evidence based policy and practice - Whose evidence? What kind of evidence? How might evidence feed into decision making processes? Through which agencies?
*       Diversity - issues of community, plurality and methodological developments. Is there such a thing as 'inclusive evaluation'? What about the power dimension? Who pays? What are the implications of collaborative approaches?

Register online for the UKES Annual Conference 2001 <https://www.dnet.co.uk/happen/ukes_reg.htm>


Professor Ian Sanderson
Policy Research Institute
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