Our 2025 conference will bring together a diverse mix of speakers to spark new ideas, explore the latest trends, and share insights.
Offering a rich programme covering a wide range of data related topics and thought-provoking sessions, there is something for everyone.
Expert speakers will unpack the complexities of data in evaluation, covering everything from infrastructure implications and effective methodologies to strategic considerations.
Authorities on the critical issue of data ethics will present the latest thinking about data ownership, data misuse, addressing potential biases and ways to ensure ethical standards are upheld in a world where big data and AI are everywhere.
The conference covers five primary themes:
Exploring data types: Exploring rich and diverse sources of data, including surveys, experimental designs, numbers, words, images, attitudes, perceptions, behaviours, interviews, observations, case studies, and focus groups, document reviews, big data, and administrative data.
Leveraging data (methodologies): Examining qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation and mixed methods, impact and process, alongside innovative and traditional methods.
Data innovation and evaluation stages: Looking at infrastructure from commissioning to analysis, collecting and reporting data, monitoring/administrative data, data dashboards, and the pros and cons of AI data analysis.
Data in context: Transforming raw data into meaningful insights, crafting reports, narratives and case studies to bring data to life, tackling the challenge of reporting timelines and reflective evaluation in a fast-moving environment, and implementing change for continuous improvement.
Data integrity and ethics: Whose data is it anyway and what’s your bias? Including data standards and processes, privacy, and data misuse.
This list is not exhaustive and we invite your contributions on additional data related topics to broaden the scope and conversation on data further. A full list of speakers will be published in January.
Abstracts
Are you ready to share your research or a groundbreaking idea? Our Call for Papers is now open and we invite you to submit your proposals and contribute to a compelling programme of sessions and discussions.
Closing date for submissions: Monday 13th January 2025.