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

Catherine Hastings

Macquarie University
PhD Candidate
Sydney, Australia

I am in my final year of a PhD developing explanations for Australian family homelessness. Prior to this, I worked as an applied social research and evaluation consultant. My interests are realist and complex evaluations in areas related to social equality and social justice.

9:00am

Principles-Focused Evaluation for Transformation (Michael Quinn Patton & Kate McKegg) Chancellor 6Kate McKegg • Michael Quinn Patton

9:00am

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

12:00pm

Transforming research organisations via monitoring, evaluation and learning: how can we evaluate our own work? Chancellor 3Anne Markiewicz • Larelle McMillan • Helen Percy • Toni White

1:30pm

Theories on and of: A systematic analysis of evaluation's domains of knowledge Chancellor 4Noore Alam • Ghislain Arbour

2:00pm

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

2:30pm

Leveraging publicly available longitudinal and transactional data sources to create comparison groups in quasi-experimental and natural experimental evaluation scenarios. Chancellor 5Eleanor Williams • Gerard Atkinson

3:30pm

Learning from Failure: A Safe Space Session Conference centreCatherine Hastings • Matt Healey

4:30pm

Values and Synthesis: Evaluation's Power Core Conference centreCatherine Hastings • Amy Gullickson • Kelly Hannum

8:00am

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

Realist axiology: A realist perspective on 'valuing' in evaluation Chancellor 4Catherine Manley • Gill Westhorp

11:00am

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

Working with values in evaluation Chancellor 6Kelly Tapley • Keryn Hassall

2:00pm

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

3:00pm

Just add water: The ingredients of an evaluation consultant Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Matt Healey

3:05pm

What happens when the public is not a monolithic audience? Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Judith Lovell

3:10pm

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

3:15pm

Sizing up social campaigns - Evaluation in a market research world Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Gerard Atkinson

3:20pm

If what you are doing scares you, you're probably on the right track: 5 things I've learned about how to co-design an evaluation Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Jenne Roberts

4:00pm

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

5:30pm

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

8:00am

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

9:00am

Designing research and evaluation for a complex system: The Stronger Smarter Approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. Chancellor 4Carol Vale • Jana Andrade • John Davis • Cathy Jackson

10:00am

Transforming evaluation to better address complexity Conference centreMatt Healey • Julie Elliott

11:00am

Doing evaluation: Task analysis as a pathway to progress evaluation education Chancellor 4Helen Watts • Amy Gullickson

12:00pm

Realist Evaluation: Tracing the Evolution of Realist Program Theory over the Years of the Resilient Futures Project in South Australia Chancellor 5Keren Winterford • Bronny Walsh

2:30pm

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

My Chairs Sessions

3:30pm

Learning from Failure: A Safe Space Session Conference centreCatherine Hastings • Matt Healey

4:30pm

Values and Synthesis: Evaluation's Power Core Conference centreCatherine Hastings • Amy Gullickson • Kelly Hannum