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

Jasper Odgers

ARTD Consultants
Manager
Sydney, Australia

Jasper has been studying and working in quantitative research and data analysis for the past eight years. He manages online surveys, quantitative data analysis and data visualisation for all of ARTD’s reporting. He has recently managed several stakeholder surveys for NSW Government and Commonwealth Government agencies, which involved complex survey coding, strategies to increase response rates, and factor analysis. He brings a strong understanding of dynamic survey management, processes to ensure data quality and strategies for boosting response rates.

9:00am AEST

Interview Skills: listening to understand (Jade Maloney and Kerry Hart) Chancellor 4Kerry Hart • Jade Maloney

1:30pm AEST

Questionnaire design: asking the right questions (Andrew Hawkins and Jasper Odgers) Chancellor 4Andrew Hawkins • Jasper Odgers

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

Big data, big possibilities, big challenges: Lessons from using experimental designs in evaluation of system-level educational reforms Chancellor 5Keryn Hassall • Ben Barnes • Duncan Rintoul • Ian Watkins

12:00pm AEST

Size Matters: Quantifying the Size of the Challenge Through Big Data, Analytics and Evaluative Thinking Chancellor 5Keryn Hassall • Rico Namay

1:30pm AEST

What we wish we'd known: The experiences of new and emerging evaluators Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Nerida Buckley • Rebecca Denniss • Amy Gullickson • Sally Hartmanis • Matt Healey • Liz Smith Outcomes, dashboards and cupcakes Chancellor 5Eleanor Williams • Clare Davies • Jenny Riley

2:30pm AEST

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 AEST

Integrating evaluation and design roles: Innovations in recent NGO projects Chancellor 3Ian Patrick • Robert Drake • Vanessa Hood

4:00pm AEST

Between the known and the unknown: exploring innovation in evidence-based programs Chancellor 3Ian Patrick • Alexandra Ellinson

9:30am AEST

Realist axiology: A realist perspective on 'valuing' in evaluation Chancellor 4Catherine Manley • Gill Westhorp Strengthening the professionalisation of evaluation in Australia, workshop 1 Chancellor 3Amy Gullickson • Sue Leahy • Delyth Lloyd 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

10:00am AEST

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

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The Enhanced Commonwealth Performance Framework - the opportunity for the Australian evaluation community Chancellor 5John Stoney • Lyn Alderman • Brad Cook • David Morton • David Roberts • David Turvey When an evaluator benefits: the challenges of managing values and power in evaluating with a lived experience Chancellor 6Kelly Tapley • Joanna Farmer

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

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

3:05pm AEST

Measuring a healthy workplace environment in 10 questions: Developing a rapid environmental audit tool for Victorian workplaces Chancellor 3Christina Thornley • Clara Walker

3:10pm AEST

Evaluation and Transformation: It's the Politics Stupid Chancellor 3Christina Thornley • Chris Roche

4:00pm AEST

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

9:00am AEST

Evaluation reports: Writing, editing and wrangling Word Chancellor 6Stuart Raetz • Ruth Pitt 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

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

10:10am AEST

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

11:00am AEST

"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 Total value measurement: Are we counting what actually counts? Chancellor 3Kitty te Riele • Les Trudzik

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

12:15pm 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

Designing better surveys: from zero to hero Chancellor 6Tracey McMartin • Dan Borg

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