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Welcome cocktail reception, Tuesday 18 September 6:00–8:00pm, open to all delegates! Venue: Penny Royal
 
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Alison Rogers

The Fred Hollows Foundation
Development Effectiveness Coordinator
Darwin
As the Development Effectiveness Coordinator with The Fred Hollows Foundation's Indigenous Australia Program, I support embedding evaluative thinking within the program. I have a background in nutrition and dietetics and community development with Masters degrees in Public Health and Evaluation. I have recently commenced a PhD through the University of Melbourne. My special interest area is evaluation capacity building.
Wednesday, September 19
 

9:00am AEST

Opening plenary: Welcome to Country; Michael Quinn Patton "Getting Real about Transformational Change: The Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Lyn Alderman • Aunty Nola Hooper • Kate McKegg • Michael Quinn Patton

11:00am AEST

In the deep end? Evaluation 101 for new evaluators Conference centreDan Borg • Charlie Tulloch

12:05pm AEST

Economic evaluation of justice support: Transforming life pathways for people with intellectual disability Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Ruth McCausland • Rebecca Reeve

12:10pm AEST

Joining the dots: evaluation and strategy Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Joanna Farmer

12:15pm AEST

Using systems theory to explore the impacts and outcomes of a research and evaluation capacity building partnership Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Rochelle Tobin

12:20pm AEST

Designing a transformative evaluation framework Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Sarah Stamp

1:30pm AEST

The Promise Design-thinking and Implementation Science holds for Social Impact Evaluation: Views from Practitioners and Evaluators Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Rachel Aston • Ruth Aston • Robbie Francis • Timoci O’Connor

2:00pm AEST

The offerings and challenges of transdisciplinarity for evaluation Chancellor 4Noore Alam • Keren Winterford

2:30pm AEST

Maximising the Value Add of a Strategic Evaluation Function in an International Non-Government Organisation (NGO) Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Peta Leeman • Sarah Leslie

2:35pm AEST

Evaluative study to assist a transformation of the Indigenous affairs system Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Kevin Dolman

2:40pm AEST

Strengthening program impact on systems and building evaluation into systems Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Jade Maloney • Katherine Rich

2:45pm AEST

Evaluating influence Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Joanna Farmer

2:50pm AEST

Systemic transformation in action: Turbo-charging evaluation and impact in the New Zealand science system Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Helen Percy • Toni White

3:30pm AEST

Personal and professional transformation through cultural safety training: Learnings and implications for evaluators from two decades of professional development Chancellor 4Lee-Anne Molony • Sharon Gollan • Kathleen Stacey

4:30pm AEST

Inclusive and culturally safe evaluation capacity building Chancellor 4Lee-Anne Molony • Sharon Babyack • Doyen Radcliffe • Alison Rogers
 
Thursday, September 20
 

8:00am AEST

Plenary two: Penny Hagen "Scaling up, out and deep: What we are learning about social innovation for transformation" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Penny Hagen

9:30am AEST

Evaluation literacy: Exploring the skills needed to motivate and enable others to access, understand and use evaluation information in non-government organisations Conference centreDiz McKinnon • Leanne Kelly • Alicia McCoy • Alison Rogers

11:00am AEST

Developmental evaluation in Indigenous contexts: transforming power relations at the interface of different knowledge systems Chancellor 3James Smith • Kate McKegg • Samantha Togni • Nan Wehipeihana

12:00pm AEST

Developmental evaluation, biostatisics, primary health care researcher and Indigenous voices: Culture clash or symbiotic relationship? Chancellor 3James Smith • Deborah Askew • Philip Schluter • Samantha Togni

2:00pm AEST

Evaluative Rubrics: A tool for making explicit evaluative judgements Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Kate McKegg • Nan Wehipeihana

3:00pm AEST

Transforming evaluation: Necessary but not sufficient to make a meaningful contribution to society Conference centreDwi Ratih S. Esti • Julie McGeary

3:10pm AEST

'Bring a friend to work day': The value of dragging non evaluator colleagues along to the AES Conference Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Liam Downing

4:00pm AEST

Plenary three: Karol Olejniczak "Transforming evaluation practice with serious games" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Karol Olejniczak

5:30pm AEST

AES Annual General Meeting & 'What could the Romans actually do for us?' - an interactive Forum on the concept of an Evaluator-General and what it could mean for AES members Conference centreLyn Alderman
 
Friday, September 21
 

8:00am AEST

Plenary four: Sharon Gollan & Kathleen Stacey "Cultural accountability in evaluating Aboriginal initiatives and programs" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Sharon Gollan • Kathleen Stacey

9:00am AEST

Traps for young players: a panel session by new evaluators for new evaluators Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Dan Borg • Victoria Cook • Ellie McDonald • Jen Thompson

10:00am AEST

Realities of monitoring and evaluation in a not-for-profit Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Eboni Tiller

10:05am AEST

When do we have enough evidence!!! Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Zazie Tolmer

10:10am AEST

We should be democritising evalution, not sanctifying it Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Duncan Rintoul

10:20am AEST

TLDR (too long, didn't read): Let's knife evaluation reports Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Liz Smith

11:00am AEST

We are Women! We are Ready! Amplifying our voice through Participatory Action Research Conference centreJoanna Farmer • Tracy McDiarmid • Alejandra Pineda

12:00pm AEST

For all in tents and porpoises: the use of spell check in evalaution Chancellor 3Kitty te Riele • Evie Cuthbertson

12:05pm AEST

Charting a course through unpredictable seas: How Amaze is using evaluative approaches to adapt to large-scale sector reform without losing sight of long term outcomes Chancellor 3Kitty te Riele • Braedan Hogan • Natasha M Ludowyk

12:10pm AEST

Alcohol Culture Change: developing an overarching framework and method to evaluate activities under the VicHealth Alcohol Culture Change Initiative Chancellor 3Kitty te Riele • Virginia Lewis

12:15pm AEST

Improving the quality of suicide prevention programs: Strengthening the evidence-base with evaluation and collaborative partnerships Chancellor 3Kitty te Riele • Michelle Kwan

1:30pm AEST

Strengthening the professionalisation of evaluation in Australia, workshop 2 Chancellor 5Amy Gullickson • Sue Leahy • Delyth Lloyd

2:30pm AEST

Closing plenary: It’s the AES18 Great Debate and it’s going to be huge! Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Lyn Alderman • Penny Hagen • Kate McKegg • Karol Olejniczak • Gill Westhorp