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

Kathryn Meldrum

James Cook University
Educational Designer
Cairns

Kathryn is an emerging evaluator drawing on close to twenty years of project conceptualisation, design, conduct and reporting experience. She has worked in the education, health and crime prevention sectors.

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 The STrengthening Evaluation Practices and Strategies (STEPS) in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand Project: Next "steps" in the journey. Chancellor 4Liz Smith • Margaret Cargo • Sharon Clarke • Lynley Cvitanovic • Jenni Judd • Gill Potaka-Osborne • Lisa Warner

12:00pm AEST

Embracing the "Fish out of Water" – a novice evaluators' experience introducing reflective practice to influence systems transformation Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Sophie McEniry 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 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

4:30pm AEST

Inclusive and culturally safe evaluation capacity building Chancellor 4Lee-Anne Molony • Sharon Babyack • Doyen Radcliffe • 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

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

2:30pm AEST

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

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

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

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