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

Louise Maher

M&E House (Buka Hatene)
Team Leader
Timor-Leste

Louise Maher is the Team Leader of M&E House, which supports the Australian development program in Timor-Leste to tell a clear results story. Louise has a background in physiotherapy, public health, and international development. She is interested in building organisational motivation, capacity, and systems to generate and use great evidence for better results.

9:00am AEST

The basics of systems thinking and its application to systems evaluation (Ralph Renger) Chancellor 3Ralph Renger

9:00am AEST

Principles-Focused Evaluation for Transformation (Michael Quinn Patton & Kate McKegg) Chancellor 6Kate McKegg • Michael Quinn Patton

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

Thinking local and global: Tasmanian lessons in pursuit of Transformational Systems Change Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Catherine Manley • Anna Powell • Ebeny Wood 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

Transforming research organisations via monitoring, evaluation and learning: how can we evaluate our own work? Chancellor 3Anne Markiewicz • Larelle McMillan • Helen Percy • Toni White 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

2:00pm AEST

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 Maximising the Value Add of a Strategic Evaluation Function in an International Non-Government Organisation (NGO) Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Peta Leeman • Sarah Leslie

3:30pm AEST

Learning from Failure: A Safe Space Session Conference centreCatherine Hastings • Matt Healey

4:00pm AEST

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

4:30pm AEST

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

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

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 Transforming evaluation culture and systems within the Australian aid program: Embracing the power of evaluation to promote learning, transparency, and accountability. Chancellor 5Michael Shapland • Tracey McMartin

11:00am AEST

Evaluative thinking and strategic learning - nice words, do they make any difference? Chancellor 4Claire Grealy • Meg Beilken • Hayley Rose • Zazie Tolmer • Mila Waise

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 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 AEST

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 AEST

The promise and practice of partner-led evaluation: a policy research programme case study Chancellor 6Anthea McClintock • Jess Dart • Stuart Raetz

4:00pm AEST

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

8:00am AEST

Plenary four: Sharon Gollan & Kathleen Stacey "Cultural accountability in evaluating Aboriginal initiatives and programs" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Sharon Gollan • Kathleen Stacey

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 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

Why do well designed M&E systems seldom inform decision making? Chancellor 6Ruth McCausland • Byron Pakula • Damien Sweeney 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