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

Amanda Reeves

Department of Education Victoria
Senior Evaluation Officer

Amanda is an experienced evaluation practitioner and policy analyst at the Department of Education Victoria. Amanda has led evaluation projects in a variety of roles in government, the not-for-profit sector and as an external consultant in education, youth mental health and industry policy areas. Her approach is informed by a Master of Evaluation from the University of Melbourne as well as her experience working in public policy, program design and implementation. Amanda has a particular interest in evaluation theory and design, applying an interdisciplinary approach to evaluation and building organisational cultures that support the conduct and use of evaluation.

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

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

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

The offerings and challenges of transdisciplinarity for evaluation Chancellor 4Noore Alam • Keren Winterford

2:30pm

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

Is this strategy working?: The systems thinking approach to investing for impact Chancellor 6David Roberts • Lewis Atkinson

4:00pm

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

4:30pm

Values and Synthesis: Evaluation's Power Core Conference centreCatherine Hastings • Amy Gullickson • Kelly Hannum

8:00am

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

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

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

2:00pm

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

Youth Partnership Project: Applying place-based collective impact and evaluating for systems change Chancellor 5Rhianon Vichta • Maria Collazos

3:00pm

Transforming evaluation: Necessary but not sufficient to make a meaningful contribution to society Conference centreDwi Ratih S. Esti • Julie McGeary

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

Taking an intersectional approach to evaluation and monitoring: moving from theory to practice Chancellor 5Jenne Roberts • Loren Days • Sarah Kearney

10:00am

Visionary, maybe, but how viable? Understanding executive leaders' thinking about evaluation mainstreaming within child and family welfare Chancellor 6Stuart Raetz • Amanda Jones

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

Realist Evaluation: Tracing the Evolution of Realist Program Theory over the Years of the Resilient Futures Project in South Australia Chancellor 5Keren Winterford • Bronny Walsh

1:30pm

'Drive out fear': creating space for evaluative thinking and speculation for practitioners and organisations Chancellor 4Marion Norton • Susan Garner • Carolyn Page