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aes18 International Evaluation Conference

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

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11:00am

Integrated Care Maturity Model Chancellor 3Anne Markiewicz • Amy Hogan • James Linden

11:30am

Beyond 'reach': Rethinking the evaluation of digital government Chancellor 3Anne Markiewicz • Tanja Porter

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 Size Matters: Quantifying the Size of the Challenge Through Big Data, Analytics and Evaluative Thinking Chancellor 5Keryn Hassall • Rico Namay Using co-design to give voice to Aboriginal people in the design of a culturally appropriate infant maternal health service Chancellor 4Liz Smith • Sue Leahy • Amanda Reeves

1:30pm

Theories on and of: A systematic analysis of evaluation's domains of knowledge Chancellor 4Noore Alam • Ghislain Arbour 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 Outcomes, dashboards and cupcakes Chancellor 5Eleanor Williams • Clare Davies • Jenny Riley

2:00pm

The offerings and challenges of transdisciplinarity for evaluation Chancellor 4Noore Alam • Keren Winterford Whose outcome is it anyway? Using matrices to serve many masters. Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Nolan Stephenson New evaluation techniques for the transformation of Melbourne. Time-and-place targeting technology and the decline of the 300-page evaluation report Chancellor 5Eleanor Williams • David Spicer

2:30pm

Synthesising Kirkpatrick's four-levels Chancellor 4Noore Alam • Francesca Demetriou Co-creating an evaluation of an innovative collective impact project: the Katherine Individual Support Program Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Jenne Roberts 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

Integrating evaluation and design roles: Innovations in recent NGO projects Chancellor 3Ian Patrick • Robert Drake • Vanessa Hood Buka Hatene - an innovative model promoting adaptive management for improved aid effectiveness in Timor-Leste Chancellor 5Helen McMahon • Louise Maher

4:00pm

Lessons on designing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting for policy influence programs Chancellor 5Helen McMahon • Rini Mowson • Byron Pakula

4:30pm

The Office of the Inspector-General's Cyclone Debbie Review: Lessons for delivering value and confidence through trust and empowerment Chancellor 6David Roberts • Michael Shapland The potential for system level change: Addressing political and funding level factors to facilitate health promotion and disease prevention evaluation Chancellor 5Helen McMahon • Joanna Schwarzman Inclusive and culturally safe evaluation capacity building Chancellor 4Lee-Anne Molony • Sharon Babyack • Doyen Radcliffe • Alison Rogers Values and Synthesis: Evaluation's Power Core Conference centreCatherine Hastings • Amy Gullickson • Kelly Hannum

9:30am

Ethics in evaluation: navigating ethical requirements and processes to improve the quality of evaluation Chancellor 6Clara Walker • Ellie McDonald • Eleanor Williams

10:00am

How algorithms shape our lives: evaluating the unseen Chancellor 6Clara Walker • Kristy Hornby

11:00am

When an evaluator benefits: the challenges of managing values and power in evaluating with a lived experience Chancellor 6Kelly Tapley • Joanna Farmer

11:30am

Sharing research results to shape future services Chancellor 6Kelly Tapley • Gill Potaka Osborne • Kiri Parata

2:00pm

Principles before rules: Child-centred, family-focused and practitioner-led evaluation in child protection Chancellor 5Rhianon Vichta • Stefan Kmit The Lived Experience Evaluators Project: Combining design thinking and innovation to build cultural capital in the evaluation sector Chancellor 3Christina Thornley • Anna Strempel

2:30pm

Youth Partnership Project: Applying place-based collective impact and evaluating for systems change Chancellor 5Rhianon Vichta • Maria Collazos In their own words: How we (the boring adults) worked with young people (the cool kids) in Papua New Guinea to develop a bilingual post-program survey, why we did it, and why it was a good idea Chancellor 3Christina Thornley • Junior Muke • Lauren Siegmann

3:00pm

Transforming evaluation: Necessary but not sufficient to make a meaningful contribution to society Conference centreDwi Ratih S. Esti • Julie McGeary From outputs to outcomes: A system transformation approach for the Victorian child and family service sector Chancellor 5Rhianon Vichta • Emily Mellon The promise and practice of partner-led evaluation: a policy research programme case study Chancellor 6Anthea McClintock • Jess Dart • Stuart Raetz

10:00am

Transforming evaluation to better address complexity Conference centreMatt Healey • Julie Elliott Visionary, maybe, but how viable? Understanding executive leaders' thinking about evaluation mainstreaming within child and family welfare Chancellor 6Stuart Raetz • Amanda Jones "It's about involving Aboriginal people in every aspect of decision making": Understanding the enablers and drivers of evaluation in Indigenous higher education in Australia Chancellor 4Carol Vale • Kim Robertson • James Smith Q: Can realist evaluations be designed to be more suitable for use in Indigenous contexts? (A: It depends) Chancellor 5Jenne Roberts • Kevin Dolman • Emma Williams

11:00am

Doing evaluation: Task analysis as a pathway to progress evaluation education Chancellor 4Helen Watts • Amy Gullickson Total value measurement: Are we counting what actually counts? Chancellor 3Kitty te Riele • Les Trudzik "Stories for Purpose" – transforming the use of documentary film, participatory media and participatory forums in Monitoring and Evaluation, in order to create evidence based visual reports Chancellor 6Ruth McCausland • Margaret Howard • Susan Rooney-Harding Evaluation Ready: Transforming government processes and ensuring evaluability Chancellor 5Keren Winterford • Lyn Alderman • Ruth Pitt • David Turvey

11:30am

Reconciliation Action Plans as drivers of social change: The engagement process in the evaluation of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games RAP Chancellor 3Kitty te Riele • Kate Frances • Ross Williams Transforming evaluation relationships: Evaluators as responsive and flexible mentors Chancellor 4Helen Watts • Tim Carey

12:00pm

Evaluation fatigue and the tragedy of the commons: Are we plundering our participants' finite resources of patience and trust? Chancellor 4Helen Watts • Adrian Field Why do well designed M&E systems seldom inform decision making? Chancellor 6Ruth McCausland • Byron Pakula • Damien Sweeney 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 Inclusive Systemic Evaluation: Gender equality, Environments, Marginalised voices for Social justice (ISE4GEMS) - A New UN Women Approach for the SDG Era Conference centreJoanna Farmer • Kathryn Meldrum • Jill Thomas