Evaluation training courses
Updated 4 July 2022
© Crown copyright 2022
This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3 or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: psi@nationalarchives.gov.uk.
Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned.
This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-training-courses/evaluation-training-courses
There are now a sizeable number of evaluation courses. We have listed some in this document, as a service to the evaluation community. Note that we have not necessarily tested all these courses.
If you run or have been on a good evaluation training programme that you would like to list here, please contact etf@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.
1. Civil Service
- Introduction to policy evaluation for analysts
- Introduction to policy evaluation for policy and delivery officials
2. BSG
- Evidence in public policy
3. Bond
- Introduction to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
- Theory of change essentials online
- Impact assessment and evaluation
- Planning and practice in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
- Tools and methods for monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
4. Social Research Association (SRA)
- Qualitative Data Analysis
- Impact Evaluation
- Conducting Focus Groups
- Questionnaire Design
- Data Visualisation
- Narratives And Storytelling
- Qualitative Interviewing
- Theory-Based Evaluation
5. Cemmap
- https://www.cemmap.ac.uk/courses/
- Policy Evaluation methods
- Reproducible Econometrics Using R
6. NatCen Social Research
- Analysis of qualitative data
- Introduction to evidence reviews
- Introduction to qualitative research
- Designing and moderating focus groups
- Reporting qualitative data
- (Non-)probability survey samples in scientific practice
- Questionnaire design
7. Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
- Handling Complexity in Policy Evaluation: Training and Support
8. NCRM
- Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) for quantitative social researchers
9. UK Evaluation Society
- Various evaluation training and professional development
Find UKES training and professional development.
10. Other evaluation training
-
Strategy and Evidence: Value-for-Money.
-
INTRAC: Monitoring and Evaluation Systems.
-
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab: J-PAL courses.
-
University of East Anglia: MSc in Impact Evaluation.
-
London International Development Centre (LIDC): Evaluation: from Innovation to Impact.
-
Evaluation.org: training, masterclasses and webinars on topics including Process Tracing, Bayesian Updating (Diagnostic Theory-Based Evaluation), Qualitative, Comparative Analysis (QCA), Discourse Analysis, and Ethics in Everyday Evaluation Practice.
-
LSR: Policy evaluation.