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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

Kirsten Sterling

NPS MedicineWise
Program Evaluation Officer
Sydney

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

11:00am

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

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

1:30pm

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

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

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

9:30am

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

11:00am

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

11:30am

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

12:00pm

Ethical Dilemmas in Evaluation Practice Conference centreFrances McMurtrie • Anne Markiewicz

2:00pm

Challenging the status quo: the emerging evaluators panel Chancellor 6Anthea McClintock • Skye Bulleen • Nathan Delbridge • Francesca Demetriou • Joanna Farmer • Sarah Leslie • Rini Mowson • Eunice Sotelo 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

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

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

3:05pm

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

3:15pm

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

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

9:00am

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

10:00am

Realities of monitoring and evaluation in a not-for-profit Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Eboni Tiller

10:10am

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

11:00am

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

11:30am

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

1:30pm

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

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