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aes15 Program and abstract book
NOTES:
Only the first author has been listed below.
Not all presenters submitted presentations, or gave permission to publish.
Full text papers will be publsihed after review.
Keynote Addresses
- Emerging Evaluators - A Vision for Evaluation 2025
- Hattie, John - Challenging the narrative of evaluation
- Laubli Loud, Marlene - "Boundary Interactions; the bad and the ugly!"
- McKinley, Liz - "Why am I paying you to tell me what I already know?"
Presentations
- Abbato, Samantha - Your Shed and Dementia: From local stories to a National intervention
- Arbour, Ghislain - Project of terminological dictionary of evaluation: A much needed attempt at clarity
- Astbury, Brad - Misuse of evaluation tools and techniques
- Astbury, Brad - Twenty-five years in review: An analysis of the Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 1989-2014
- Aston, Ruth - Evaluating Collective Impact: Challenges and Opportunities
- B Nanda, Rituu - Bridging the boundaries and enriching evaluation: Conversations and experiences of a global online Community of Evaluation Practice
- Barboza, Eve - Evaluator Personality Preferences - Implications for influencing evaluation design and utilisation
- Bartley, Nicci - Evaluating the impact of cancer research funding: All together now
- Brosnan, Kylie - Take a ride in my Com-B with MEL and ToC: Measuring Social Capital and Collective Impact of Indigenous Organisations
- Brous, David - Animal Evaluation: How shoul the evaluator talk with the animals?
- Brown, Graham - From promise to practicalities: Applying complex systems concepts and methods in evaluation research with peer and community based programs
- Butler, Kerryn - Using multi-methods to evaluate clinical services: A case study.
- Cant, Sue - Politics at play: New imperatives in evaluating foreign aid interventions
- Chung, Sean - Measuring The Effectiveness Of Collaborative Capacity Builders: A Mental Health Case Study
- Cleland, Phoebe - Challenges of Evaluation within a Complex Setting with Diverse Populations
- Clinton, Janet - 'Visible Evaluation': Using embedded evaluation to bridge the gap between professional teaching quality standards and the classroom
- Cohen, Donna - An innovative online tool for expanding the utility of program logic maps
- Colvin, Albie - Publicising and Marketing your Work
- Crawford, Anne - Social return on investment: Reaching across the 'language of value' boundary
- Crinall, Karen - Adaptive evaluation: Reflections on a multi-layered, participatory action methodology to evaluate a partnership strategy for the prevention of men's violence against women in regional Victoria, Australia.
- Dabrowski, Anna - How can Evaluation contribute to policy reform? Lessons from the Evaluation of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
- Davis, Jennifer - Not another ECB story: Applying Cousins' Framework for organisational evaluation capacity to support the Australian Human Rights Commission preparations for the Enhanced Commonwealth Performance Framework.
- Dickinson, Pauline - Insights into the needs of teen parents: Conducting a needs assessment using Photovoice
- Donaldson, Stewart - "Reaching Across Boundaries with Exemplary evaluation in 2025: Will the World be Better Off?"
- Donnelly, John - Participatory monitoring - ensuring that all interested stakeholders have the opportunity to share in the decision making.
- Downing, Liam - Evaluation as an integrated management tool: Embedding an evaluator into a program
- Faisandier, Sally - Mirror mirror on the wall: Reflections on utilisation-focussed evaluation vs. implementation science.
- Farmer, Joanna - Finding Courageous Clients: an emerging evaluator's reflections on the balance between innovation and caution
- Garner, Susan - Two sides of the coin: Money stories from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of central Australia
- Gauthier, Benoît - "Canada 2025: what ought to be and what will be, and how to close the gap"
- Gauthier, Benoît - Impacts of the 2009 Government of Canada Policy on Evaluation on the federal government evaluation system
- Gauthier, Benoît - The Canadian Evaluation Society's Professional Designation Program: Views from Members
- Grealy, Claire - Describing is good: measuring is better. A new means of measuring the effectiveness of networks and simultaneously strengthening their function.
- Grey, Kim - The untapped potential of social science theory in evaluation and knowledge development - a case study of recent Indigenous evaluation studies
- Guijt, Irene - Evaluating impact when you have no counterfactual and a fuzzy program
- Gullickson, Amy - Formative Assessment for Evaluation: Collaborative, community-based design of evaluation tools and systems
- Hampshire, Anne - Improving children's early numeracy: An evaluation of the Let's Count program
- Hickman, Alison - What characteristics of evaluation reports make them 'useful' to decision makers?"
- Hong, Bev - Braiding across cultural paradigms
- Hunter-Xenie, Hmalan - Getting ethics clearance and consent on projects undertaken with community based Aboriginal research practitioners - The ARPNet experience on the Bushfires CRC project in the Top End
- Jones, Glenys - Building an evaluation system that is relevant, reliable, accessible and resilient. Case study: The monitoring and reporting system for Tasmania's national parks and reserves.
- Kelly, Gail - Measuring the effectiveness of the 'whole of system' response to family violence: A 'proof-of-concept' project
- Keogh, Brian - Are we being heard? Adventures from the frontline of evaluation capacity building
- King, Julian - Getting to the real value in 'value for money': Using economics evaluatively
- Kirby, Tim - What auditors are saying about evaluation
- Larson, Ann - Evaluation amidst complexity: why complexity is important and what to do about it
- Lloyd, Delyth - Using digital technology across the range of tasks in evaluation
- Lucks, Dorothy - Evalyear 2015 - A watershed for the evaluation sector
- Markiewicz, Anne - Developing Cascading Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks: A Case Study of a Pacific Multi-Country program
- McCausland, Ruth - The role of evaluation in reducing the over-representation of Indigenous Australian women in prison
- McGeary, Julie - Performance measurement: Exploring the gap between promise and practice, using Client Satisfaction as a case study
- McKegg, Kate - "Unpacking the invisible knapsack - power, privilege and professionalisation"
- McKegg, Kate - Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Learning from 'down under' and around the globe.
- McKegg, Kate - Reaching across boundaries - evaluation of high stakes collaboration
- McKenzie, Rosemary - Tweeting for help - the utility of social media and digital technology in modern evaluation practice
- McKinley, Liz - Evaluation:enabling stronger and better communities
- Michaux, Annette - Evaluating inquiry-led policy reform in Australia
- Milne, Chris - Getting serious about evaluation capacity building: lessons from a large government agency that did it strategically then evaluated it.
- Nandi, Rajib - Gender Responsive Evaluation for non-gendered programs: Challenges of including a gendered lens in evaluation processes in India
- Narayan, Sarita - Plan-deliver-learn: Driving an evaluative mindset
- Nunns, Heather - Evaluative reasoning: How are we doing? Can we do better?
- Oakden, Judy - So now you've got the data, what next? Collaborative sensemaking to navigate diversity
- O'Connor, Timoci - Crossing virtual boundaries - The potential of information communication technology in evaluation
- Owen, John - Use of Evaluation to Consolidate the Adoption of Innovatory Programs
- Parsons, Ro - Sharpening the Focus of Evalaution Practice on Outcomes for Diverse Learners
- Peersman, Greet - Avoiding doing too little, too late about impact: Planning and implementing an impact-oriented monitoring and evaluation system
- Peeters, Manuel - The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation's local prevention program
- Percy, Helen - Breaking down the boundaries of perception: Introducing monitoring and evaluation frameworks within a science organisation
- Pilkinton, Jayne - Gender justice: Evaluation across levels and dimensions of power, inequality and change
- Pilkinton, Jayne - Building a framework for organisation-level monitoring, evaluation and learning: Measuring Oxfam Australia's 'Right to be Heard' active citizenship outcomes
- Planigale, Mark - The right framework for the job: developing client outcomes models within the housing and homelessness sector
- Pope, Suzanne - Foundations for evaluation: piloting a targeted evaluation capacity development program with a NSW Government agency
- Rapson, Lara - Moller's Maze: Understanding positionality
- Read, Clancy - Showcasing the application of theory-driven evaluation for a stepped-wedge, community-randomised trial to improve delivery of secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease
- Redman, Anne - Improving the evidence for communities and policy makers to assist in addressing Indigenous disadvantage in the criminal justice system
- Redman, Anne - The role of evaluators in supporting the development and continuation of Indigenous programs in an era of funding uncertainty
- Reedy, Alison - Evaluating e-learning: Indigenous learners crossing higher education boundaries
- Renals, Sarah - Building a Bridge: Participatory evaluation with vulnerable communities on a small budget: Evaluating an innovative community engagement project with people of refugee background in Brisbane.
- Rhodes, Deborah - The relevance of cross-cultural understanding for evaluations in development practice
- Rice, Sue - Using a monitoring and evaluation framework to overcome the barriers to delivering services to families impacted by drought.
- Rogan, Melissa - Process Flow mapping for Evaluating Systems
- Rogers, Alison - Empowering organisations - Building evaluation capacity in a cross-cultural context
- Roorda, Mathea - Defensible evaluative criteria for public sector evaluations: What do Australasian evaluators think this looks like?
- Rose, Vanessa - The ties that bind: establishing common measures for outcome evaluation across government and not-for-profit services
- Rossingh, Bronwyn - Evaluating as an Outsider or an Insider: A Two-way Approach guided by the Knowers of Culture
- Sann, Kari - How to build a good performance framework
- Scally-Irvine, Kara - Improving tertiary education through strengthened evaluative self-assessment
- Seed, Natalie - Photovoice: A participatory approach to disability service evaluation
- Stone-Jovicich, Samantha - A flexible, multi-purpose monitoring, evaluation, and learning system to support Australian agriculture international aid and development programs: theories, practices, and lessons learned
- Stoney, John - An old idea still good? A discourse on Owen's Forms and Approaches model
- Straton, Ralph - The Validity of Evaluation Information: The Achilles Heel of Evaluation?
- Thomas, Julian - Drawing out the values: Social Return on Investment and Public Value discourse lenses
- Thompson, Cristina - Evaluating a national workforce reform initiative: Lessons from the Australian experience with expanded scopes of practice in - primary care physiotherapy, emergency nursing, nurse endoscopy and extended care paramedicine.
- Togni, Samantha - Opening our eyes: The importance of language, concepts and ways of knowing in reaching across boundaries to develop evaluation capacity with senior Aboriginal women in remote Australia
- Tolmer, Zazie - Why does monitoring not deliver?
- Trudzik, Les - Architectural lessons from complex cross-government evaluations
- Tulloch, Charlie - Qualitative event evaluation: the AES Darwin 2014 Conference
- Unger, Zita - Become a Front-End Champion: Five principles for effective evaluation analysis and design.
- valentine, kylie - Keep Them Safe: lessons from a large scale evaluation of child welfare reform
- van Moort, Jan Paul - Rural R&D evaluation in Australia
- Wallace, Alison - Breaking Bad (Boundaries): It's all about the meth(odology)
- Walton, Mat - Applying complexity theory to evaluation: Reflecting on research to inform practice
- Weir, Annie - Evaluating across organisational boundaries: Utilising roundtable evaluation
- Westhorp, Gill - Realist Meta-evaluation: New kid on the block?
- White, Toni - Experiencing developmental evaluation - the case of co-innovation in New Zealand's primary sector.
- Wilkinson, Rebecca - A whole-of-agency perspective on evidence-based policy making
- Williams, Emma - Competencies across boundaries: applying a Canadian tool to Australasian competences
- Winterford, Keren - The Theory of Change approach in practice: lessons learned in evaluating an international advocacy campaign