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Welcome cocktail reception, Tuesday 18 September 6:00–8:00pm, open to all delegates! Venue:
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Monday
, September 17
Chancellor 3
9:00am •
The basics of systems thinking and its application to systems evaluation (Ralph Renger)
Chancellor 4
9:00am •
Making it stick - Creating an evaluation report for impact and use (Samantha Abbato)
Chancellor 5
9:00am •
Valuing social outcomes to demonstrate impact (Taimur Siddiqi)
Chancellor 6
9:00am •
Codesign and evaluation for social innovation (Penny Hagen)
Tamar Room, Clarion Hotel City Park Grand
9:00am •
Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks (Anne Markiewicz)
Tuesday
, September 18
Chancellor 3
9:00am •
Understanding evaluation contexts (Sarah Mason)
1:30pm •
From Data to Learning - How to run an effective Reflection Workshop (Byron Pakula)
Chancellor 4
9:00am •
Interview Skills: listening to understand (Jade Maloney and Kerry Hart)
1:30pm •
Questionnaire design: asking the right questions (Andrew Hawkins and Jasper Odgers)
Chancellor 5
9:00am •
Behaviour architects: a game that applies behavioural insights to improve policy solutions (Karol Olejniczak)
Chancellor 6
9:00am •
Principles-Focused Evaluation for Transformation (Michael Quinn Patton & Kate McKegg)
Tamar Room, Clarion Hotel City Park Grand
9:00am •
Conflict resolution skills: A toolbox for evaluators (Ruth Pitt)
Wednesday
, September 19
Chancellor 3
11:00am •
Integrated Care Maturity Model
11:30am •
Beyond 'reach': Rethinking the evaluation of digital government
12:00pm •
Transforming research organisations via monitoring, evaluation and learning: how can we evaluate our own work?
1:30pm •
What we wish we'd known: The experiences of new and emerging evaluators
2:30pm •
Maximising the Value Add of a Strategic Evaluation Function in an International Non-Government Organisation (NGO)
2:35pm •
Evaluative study to assist a transformation of the Indigenous affairs system
2:40pm •
Strengthening program impact on systems and building evaluation into systems
2:45pm •
Evaluating influence
2:50pm •
Systemic transformation in action: Turbo-charging evaluation and impact in the New Zealand science system
3:30pm •
Integrating evaluation and design roles: Innovations in recent NGO projects
4:00pm •
Between the known and the unknown: exploring innovation in evidence-based programs
Chancellor 4
11:00am •
The STrengthening Evaluation Practices and Strategies (STEPS) in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand Project: Next "steps" in the journey.
12:00pm •
Using co-design to give voice to Aboriginal people in the design of a culturally appropriate infant maternal health service
1:30pm •
Theories on and of: A systematic analysis of evaluation's domains of knowledge
2:00pm •
The offerings and challenges of transdisciplinarity for evaluation
2:30pm •
Synthesising Kirkpatrick's four-levels
3:30pm •
Personal and professional transformation through cultural safety training: Learnings and implications for evaluators from two decades of professional development
4:30pm •
Inclusive and culturally safe evaluation capacity building
Chancellor 5
11:00am •
Big data, big possibilities, big challenges: Lessons from using experimental designs in evaluation of system-level educational reforms
12:00pm •
Size Matters: Quantifying the Size of the Challenge Through Big Data, Analytics and Evaluative Thinking
1:30pm •
Outcomes, dashboards and cupcakes
2:00pm •
New evaluation techniques for the transformation of Melbourne. Time-and-place targeting technology and the decline of the 300-page evaluation report
2:30pm •
Leveraging publicly available longitudinal and transactional data sources to create comparison groups in quasi-experimental and natural experimental evaluation scenarios.
3:30pm •
Buka Hatene - an innovative model promoting adaptive management for improved aid effectiveness in Timor-Leste
4:00pm •
Lessons on designing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting for policy influence programs
4:30pm •
The potential for system level change: Addressing political and funding level factors to facilitate health promotion and disease prevention evaluation
Chancellor 6
11:00am •
Thinking local and global: Tasmanian lessons in pursuit of Transformational Systems Change
12:00pm •
Embracing the "Fish out of Water" – a novice evaluators' experience introducing reflective practice to influence systems transformation
12:05pm •
Economic evaluation of justice support: Transforming life pathways for people with intellectual disability
12:10pm •
Joining the dots: evaluation and strategy
12:15pm •
Using systems theory to explore the impacts and outcomes of a research and evaluation capacity building partnership
12:20pm •
Designing a transformative evaluation framework
1:30pm •
The Promise Design-thinking and Implementation Science holds for Social Impact Evaluation: Views from Practitioners and Evaluators
2:00pm •
Whose outcome is it anyway? Using matrices to serve many masters.
2:30pm •
Co-creating an evaluation of an innovative collective impact project: the Katherine Individual Support Program
3:30pm •
Is this strategy working?: The systems thinking approach to investing for impact
4:30pm •
The Office of the Inspector-General's Cyclone Debbie Review: Lessons for delivering value and confidence through trust and empowerment
Conference centre
9:00am •
Opening plenary: Welcome to Country; Michael Quinn Patton "Getting Real about Transformational Change: The Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective"
11:00am •
In the deep end? Evaluation 101 for new evaluators
1:30pm •
New words, old approaches: Weaving together foundational principles for contributing to transformation through evaluation
3:30pm •
Learning from Failure: A Safe Space Session
4:30pm •
Values and Synthesis: Evaluation's Power Core
Thursday
, September 20
Chancellor 3
9:30am •
Strengthening the professionalisation of evaluation in Australia, workshop 1
11:00am •
Developmental evaluation in Indigenous contexts: transforming power relations at the interface of different knowledge systems
12:00pm •
Developmental evaluation, biostatisics, primary health care researcher and Indigenous voices: Culture clash or symbiotic relationship?
2:00pm •
The Lived Experience Evaluators Project: Combining design thinking and innovation to build cultural capital in the evaluation sector
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
3:05pm •
Measuring a healthy workplace environment in 10 questions: Developing a rapid environmental audit tool for Victorian workplaces
3:10pm •
Evaluation and Transformation: It's the Politics Stupid
3:15pm •
Transforming the experience of seriously ill children, young people and their families - A real life example of evaluation in action
Chancellor 4
9:30am •
Realist axiology: A realist perspective on 'valuing' in evaluation
11:00am •
Evaluative thinking and strategic learning - nice words, do they make any difference?
12:00pm •
Evaluation capability building: Transforming evaluation culture or spinning wheels?
2:00pm •
Evaluative Rubrics: A tool for making explicit evaluative judgements
3:00pm •
Just add water: The ingredients of an evaluation consultant
3:05pm •
What happens when the public is not a monolithic audience?
3:10pm •
'Bring a friend to work day': The value of dragging non evaluator colleagues along to the AES Conference
3:15pm •
Sizing up social campaigns - Evaluation in a market research world
3:20pm •
If what you are doing scares you, you're probably on the right track: 5 things I've learned about how to co-design an evaluation
Chancellor 5
9:30am •
Transforming evaluation culture and systems within the Australian aid program: Embracing the power of evaluation to promote learning, transparency, and accountability.
11:00am •
The Enhanced Commonwealth Performance Framework - the opportunity for the Australian evaluation community
12:00pm •
Developing an AES Advocacy and Influence Strategy: A consultation and co-design session for AES members
2:00pm •
Principles before rules: Child-centred, family-focused and practitioner-led evaluation in child protection
2:30pm •
Youth Partnership Project: Applying place-based collective impact and evaluating for systems change
3:00pm •
From outputs to outcomes: A system transformation approach for the Victorian child and family service sector
Chancellor 6
9:30am •
Ethics in evaluation: navigating ethical requirements and processes to improve the quality of evaluation
10:00am •
How algorithms shape our lives: evaluating the unseen
11:00am •
When an evaluator benefits: the challenges of managing values and power in evaluating with a lived experience
11:30am •
Sharing research results to shape future services
12:00pm •
Working with values in evaluation
2:00pm •
Challenging the status quo: the emerging evaluators panel
3:00pm •
The promise and practice of partner-led evaluation: a policy research programme case study
Conference centre
8:00am •
Plenary two: Penny Hagen "Scaling up, out and deep: What we are learning about social innovation for transformation"
9:30am •
Evaluation literacy: Exploring the skills needed to motivate and enable others to access, understand and use evaluation information in non-government organisations
11:00am •
Freaking Super Sweet Webinars: learning new tricks from young guns (aka Webinars 101: AES webinar working group reports back)
12:00pm •
Ethical Dilemmas in Evaluation Practice
2:00pm •
'What about me?': A campfire session to co-design transformational self-care guidelines for evaluators
3:00pm •
Transforming evaluation: Necessary but not sufficient to make a meaningful contribution to society
4:00pm •
Plenary three: Karol Olejniczak "Transforming evaluation practice with serious games"
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
Friday
, September 21
Chancellor 3
9:00am •
Traps for young players: a panel session by new evaluators for new evaluators
10:00am •
Realities of monitoring and evaluation in a not-for-profit
10:05am •
When do we have enough evidence!!!
10:10am •
We should be democritising evalution, not sanctifying it
10:20am •
TLDR (too long, didn't read): Let's knife evaluation reports
11:00am •
Total value measurement: Are we counting what actually counts?
11:30am •
Reconciliation Action Plans as drivers of social change: The engagement process in the evaluation of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games RAP
12:00pm •
For all in tents and porpoises: the use of spell check in evalaution
12:05pm •
Charting a course through unpredictable seas: How Amaze is using evaluative approaches to adapt to large-scale sector reform without losing sight of long term outcomes
12:10pm •
Alcohol Culture Change: developing an overarching framework and method to evaluate activities under the VicHealth Alcohol Culture Change Initiative
12:15pm •
Improving the quality of suicide prevention programs: Strengthening the evidence-base with evaluation and collaborative partnerships
1:30pm •
Umbrellas and rain drops: Evaluating systems change lessons and insights from Tasmania
Chancellor 4
9:00am •
Designing research and evaluation for a complex system: The Stronger Smarter Approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education.
10:00am •
"It's about involving Aboriginal people in every aspect of decision making": Understanding the enablers and drivers of evaluation in Indigenous higher education in Australia
11:00am •
Doing evaluation: Task analysis as a pathway to progress evaluation education
11:30am •
Transforming evaluation relationships: Evaluators as responsive and flexible mentors
12:00pm •
Evaluation fatigue and the tragedy of the commons: Are we plundering our participants' finite resources of patience and trust?
1:30pm •
'Drive out fear': creating space for evaluative thinking and speculation for practitioners and organisations
Chancellor 5
9:00am •
Taking an intersectional approach to evaluation and monitoring: moving from theory to practice
10:00am •
Q: Can realist evaluations be designed to be more suitable for use in Indigenous contexts? (A: It depends)
11:00am •
Evaluation Ready: Transforming government processes and ensuring evaluability
12:00pm •
Realist Evaluation: Tracing the Evolution of Realist Program Theory over the Years of the Resilient Futures Project in South Australia
1:30pm •
Strengthening the professionalisation of evaluation in Australia, workshop 2
Chancellor 6
9:00am •
Evaluation reports: Writing, editing and wrangling Word
10:00am •
Visionary, maybe, but how viable? Understanding executive leaders' thinking about evaluation mainstreaming within child and family welfare
11:00am •
"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
12:00pm •
Why do well designed M&E systems seldom inform decision making?
1:30pm •
Designing better surveys: from zero to hero
Conference centre
8:00am •
Plenary four: Sharon Gollan & Kathleen Stacey "Cultural accountability in evaluating Aboriginal initiatives and programs"
9:00am •
Evolving the evaluation deliverable
10:00am •
Transforming evaluation to better address complexity
11:00am •
We are Women! We are Ready! Amplifying our voice through Participatory Action Research
12:00pm •
Inclusive Systemic Evaluation: Gender equality, Environments, Marginalised voices for Social justice (ISE4GEMS) - A New UN Women Approach for the SDG Era
1:30pm •
Into the great wide open (data): Understanding and using big and open data in evaluations
2:30pm •
Closing plenary: It’s the AES18 Great Debate and it’s going to be huge!
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