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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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Kahiwa Sebire

University of Adelaide/University of Melbourne
Manager, Learning Design/MEval Student
Adelaide, Australia
Enthusiastic solution-finder and life-long learner. Exploring the possibilities of authentic learning experiences and technology with sticky notes and whiteboards in tow.
Studying MEval at UniMelb, interested in ECB, education, learning analytics, technology-enhanced practice, facilitation, systems thinking, equity, design thinking, innovation.
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

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

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

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 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 Whose outcome is it anyway? Using matrices to serve many masters. Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Nolan Stephenson

2:30pm AEST

Synthesising Kirkpatrick's four-levels Chancellor 4Noore Alam • Francesca Demetriou

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

4:30pm AEST

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
 
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

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

Freaking Super Sweet Webinars: learning new tricks from young guns (aka Webinars 101: AES webinar working group reports back) Conference centreFrances McMurtrie • Kara Scally-Irvine • Kahiwa Sebire • Liz Smith

12:00pm AEST

Evaluation capability building: Transforming evaluation culture or spinning wheels? Chancellor 4Claire Grealy • Martin Hall • Vanessa Hood • Megan Kerr • Delyth Lloyd • Kate Nichols • Amanda Reeves • Roberta Thorburn • Eleanor Williams

2:00pm AEST

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

4:00pm AEST

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

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

10:05am AEST

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

11:00am AEST

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

11:30am AEST

Transforming evaluation relationships: Evaluators as responsive and flexible mentors Chancellor 4Helen Watts • Tim Carey

12:00pm AEST

Evaluation fatigue and the tragedy of the commons: Are we plundering our participants' finite resources of patience and trust? Chancellor 4Helen Watts • Adrian Field 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

1:30pm AEST

Designing better surveys: from zero to hero Chancellor 6Tracey McMartin • Dan Borg Into the great wide open (data): Understanding and using big and open data in evaluations Conference centreKatherine Pontifex • Jessie Wilson

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