Centre for Evaluation Retreat 2016
Centre for Evaluation Retreat 2016
Improving global health practice through evaluation
Thursday 10th November
We encourage you to register soon as spaces are filling up!
Register at https://evaluationretreat2016.eventbrite.co.uk.
If you are unable to cover the registration cost from grant or department funding, please email evaluation@lshtm.ac.uk.
The 2016 LSHTM Centre for Evaluation Retreat will be held in London on 10th November 2016 (during reading week). All LSHTM staff and research degree students who are members of the Centre for Evaluation are invited to attend. (If you have not joined the Centre yet, simply add your email to the Sympa mailing list here)
Present your work at the retreat
We will have a series of speed talks (strictly five minutes with 1-2 slides) on the following two topics and strongly encourage applications from LSHTM staff and research degree students who would like to present their work:
1. Assessing context and its influence on outcomes
2. Opportunistic evaluations of programmes and systems (using quasi-experimental methods or natural experiments)
This is a great opportunity to highlight your work and please feel free to interpret the session titles loosely. If you would like to give one of these talks, please send an outline of up to 100 words in length to evaluation@lshtm.ac.uk with “2016 Retreat speed talks” in the subject line, including the name of the presenter.
The deadline for submission is the end of October. Please feel free to email any questions (including whether your work fits within these topics) to evaluation@lshtm.ac.uk, again with “2016 Retreat speed talks” in the subject line.
Programme
This will be a full day focussed on a range of topics within Evaluation, including “the role of evaluation in policy development”, “assessing context and its influence on outcomes” and “opportunistic evaluations of programmes and systems”.
Speakers include Howard White (Campbell Collaboration), Chris Bonell (LSHTM), Helen Burchett (LSHTM), Edoardo Masset (3ie) and Laurence Moore (Glasgow). There will be lots of time for discussion and it will end with drinks and canapés. It will be held at Prospero House in Borough. The detailed agenda will be released in due course.
Registration
To register for the event please use this link https://evaluationretreat2016.eventbrite.co.uk.
The cost for us to put on the retreat is about £100 per person and the Centre is seeking to find fair ways to maximise the cost-recovery. Several groups/departments have agreed to cover the cost of their staff to attend, so please contact your group/department head to see if this is the case. If you are unable to cover the cost of the retreat from department funds, please email evaluation@lshtm.ac.uk.
However, places at the retreat are limited to 90 attendees and so first priority will go to those who are able to cover the £100 cost for their attendance. If more than 90 people are able to cover their costs, then priority will go to those who registered first. If fewer than 90 people are able to cover their cost, then registration will be allocated to those who cannot cover their cost, in order of date of email received. Those who are unable to cover their cost will be notified if their registration was successful after the 1st November.
AGM on the 11th November:
The Centre for Evaluation AGM will be held on the following morning. It is aimed at all those who would like to contribute to the running and strategy of the Centre, with a particular focus on plans for the next year. It will be held in Jerry Morris A&B at Tavistock Place from 10am to 1pm.
