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aes17 Program and abstract book
NOTE:
- Only the first author has been listed below.
- Not all presenters submitted presentations, or gave permission to publish.
- Full text papers will be published in the EJA after review.
Keynote Addresses
- Fraser, Dugan - Better stewardship of evaluation capital can help deepen democracy
- Mathison, Sandra - Does evaluation contribute to the public good?
- Rowe, Andy - Evaluation for the Anthropocene
- Westhorpe, Gill - The practicality of good theory
- Weston, Richard - Evaluation is not life or death—it’s far more important than that
Presentations
- Adams, Jeffery - Challenging heterosexist bias in evaluation practice
- Arbour, Ghislain - Reviewing evaluation frameworks: A systematic approach
- Austin, Beau - Mobilising multiple knowledges to evaluate the effectiveness of Indigenous land; sea management in northern Australia.
- Averill, Kate - He KÄinga KÅrerorero participatory evaluation
- Averill, Kate - Integrated evaluation capital creation in a low capital environment: The design and use of an IT platform for evaluative management in the land of the unexpected (PNG)
- Bayley, Scott - How to manage for results in 10 minutes using common evaluation tools
- Bayley, Scott - I'm doing an impact evaluation, what evidence do I need?
- Bayley, Scott - Performance leadership: The key to strengthening evaluation systems and program outcomes
- Blake, Erin - Social Capital: A reflection on the theory, implications and use in evaluation
- Brosnan, Kylie - Family-centric evaluation for family led decision making: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Practice Reforms
- Brosnan, Kylie - Evaluating the evaluation - Stories from the Community Development Program
- Cave, Leah - Mission Australia's Room to Grow Program Evaluation: Evaluation of an intervention for hoarding disorder and domestic squalor in central Sydney
- Clarke, Yvette - Exploring the potential relevance of Sen's capability approach to evaluation.
- Cohen, Donna - Map-enabled experiential review: Enhancing the relevance of evaluation at the program delivery coalface
- Collins, Sandra - Using evaluation to influence policy and practice: Improving the Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour Service in New Zealand
- Cook, Brad - Evaluation and the enhanced Commonwealth performance framework: Opportunities for the evaluation community
- Dart, Jess - Stepping out: Evaluators working as designers
- Dawson, Georgia - Evaluation in the round: A 360-degree view of evaluation in educational reform
- Dibley, Rosalind - Maximising use: lessons from evaluating New Zealand's Aid Programme in the Pacific
- Dickenson, Jane - Australia’s Priority Investment Approach to welfare and the Try, Test and Learn Fund
- Donato-Hunt, Connie - Building a regional evaluation system for fisheries in the Pacific
- Downing, Liam - Evaluation and the creativity of constraint
- Eberhard, Rachel - A realist approach to evaluating the rationales and practices of collaborative governance
- Farmer, Joanna - I'm an evaluator, not a magician: designing evaluable programsFarmer, Joanna - I'm an evaluator, not a magician: designing evaluable programs
- Faure-Brac, Alison - Building robust evaluation systems in Indigenous health: Examples from the Tackling Indigenous Smoking Programme Evaluation
- Fisher, Karen - Inclusive evaluation through video as data and output
- Flavel, Catriona - Building on established community development theories to enhance the rigour and utility of program evaluation: a case study of the Fiji Community Development Program
- Fortunato, Renee - Working Towards Building an Evaluation System in NSW Health
- Gehrmann, Marc - Diverse identities, diverse design - Building an evaluation framework for two distinct program populations
- Goswami, Sarah - Building evaluation capital in government
- Gould, Martin - Evaluation-based advice with uncertain evidence: Examples from program and policy evaluations
- Grey, Kim - Growing impact: challenges in understanding impact in Indigenous affairs. Building demand, identifying gaps and highlighting progress in organisational and sectoral evaluation capacity.
- Grey, Kim - Repurposing substantive theories in evaluation: opportunities and risks in transferring formal theories into new domains.
- Gruen, Nicholas - Why Australia needs an Evaluator General
- Gullickson, Amy - What is Evaluation? Strengthening our Capital through Self-Definition
- Harrison, Nea - Testing value for money: Two case studies from a Pacific gender equality program
- Hawkins, Andrew - Intervention logic: putting the logic back in logic models
- Hawkins, Andrew - The fair price of causal information
- Healey, Matt - Better by design: A framework for bridging design thinking and evaluation
- Heath, Sarah - The Engagement of Youth in Program Evaluation: The Results of a Scoping ReviewHeath, Sarah - The Engagement of Youth in Program Evaluation: The Results of a Scoping Review
- Hems, Les - Evaluating the role for volunteers in public service reform and commissioning services: Case study of a volunteer home visiting service comprising the innovative combination of Randomised Control Trial and Social Return on Investment methodologies
- Hood, Vanessa - How might we change the AES so it is more relevant to you?
- Hooper, Carolyn - No more number-crunching! The 4E's approach to social return on investment
- Ingamells, Ann - Engaging Complexity: Developmental Evaluation in Remote Indigenous Australia
- Jabeen, Sumera - How do we know that our work works? Building an evidence base and evaluation capital.
- Jimenez, Fabio - Building evaluation capital in the environmental policy field: what do we have, what do we need? | Presentation 2 | Presentation 3
- Kennedy, Rob - Developmental evaluation: An emerging practice for informing policy
- Kon, Jew-Chung - Towards a more strategic and holistic system for evaluating public policies and programs
- Kotvojs, Fiona - The Capacity Development Evaluation Framework: providing value to users.
- Laycock, Alison - Using developmental evaluation to strengthen the dissemination and use of quality improvement data from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare centres
- Leal, Nerida - Complex evaluations in the political context: Designing an evaluation framework for a whole-of-government reform program
- Madsen, Renee - Making the most of your internal evaluation capital using reflections meetings
- Main, Squirrel - Engaging with philanthropy: A funder's perspective on how to maximise the reach of your findings
- Maloney, Jade - Evaluation: What's the use?
- Mandla, Kathryn - Belling the Cat - Commissioning for outcomes and evaluating place-based initiatives
- Manley, Catherine - Evaluation system longevity and permanence: Using scenario thinking to build resilient evaluation capital.
- Markiewicz, Anne - Dilemmas in Evaluation Practice of an Ethical Kind
- McDiarmid, Tracy - Generating evaluation capital: Meta-evaluations as 'compound interest' evaluations
- McKegg, Kate - Professionalising evaluation - Propositions, tensions and opportunities
- McMartin, Tracey - Strengthening evaluation through evaluation: Driving improvement in the Australian aid program
- Meurk, Carla - Evaluating the success and failure of national policy reform: A meta-evaluation of Australia's National Mental Health Strategy (1992-2012)
- Miller, Phillip - Community Commissioned Evaluations: Taking downstream participation of communities to a new level
- Morgan, Elizabeth - Supporting country ownership of development outcomes: How monitoring and evaluation in a public-private partnership can contribute to evaluation capital
- Newcomer, Kathryn - Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Recommendations and Getting Them Implemented
- Nyatsanza, Roselyn - Using evaluation findings as an asset to inform future strategic choices for organizational and country projects: Learning from the rich experience of Oxfam's Securing Rights Programme's Evaluation Methodology and Results.
- O'Fallon, Carolyn - Creating credible findings in evaluating a complex programme: The New Zealand Prime Minister's Youth Mental Health Project
- O'Fallon, Carolyn - Building an evidence-based social sector in New Zealand: How to increase the validity and visibility of evidence and evaluation in Government decision-making
- Owen, John - AES Fellows Forum: Resolving conflict in evaluation practice: stories and scars from the field
- Palmer, Kathleen - The inside narrative: evaluation service and blueprint design.
- Patrick, Ian - Chains of Logic: Overcoming Limitations of Program Theory and its Use in Evaluation
- Peersman, Greet - Supporting managers to use evaluators more effectively: A Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation
- Peersman, Greet - Professionalisation of evaluation: Possible pathways within the AES context
- Peterson, Heidi - Youth participation in evaluation: Promoting inclusivity and building evaluation capital
- Pilkinton, Jayne - The Oxfam Asia MEL of Influencing Capacity Building Journey: A case study of evaluative capacity building in complex organisational and cultural contexts.
- Pryor, Reima - Building the evaluation capital of Australia's national Family and Children service sector, towards improved client outcomes, services and systems, and collective social impact.
- Rao, Shelley - Building evaluation capability to improve educational outcomes for at risk children and young people
- Rintoul, Duncan - The G.I. Joe Fallacy: Cognitive bias as a hook for engaging senior decision makers in evaluative thinking
- Roberts, David - Improving Validity: Asking the Right Questions in Evaluations
- Rogers, Patricia - Using innovative methods in evaluation - what is needed?
- Rossingh, Bronwyn - Evaluation and the Indigenous voice: Core values for legitimising ethical conduct
- Sann, Kari - Evaluating innovation - the start of a conversation…
- Scally-Irvine, Kararaina - Who owns the data? Considerations of governance, ethics, access and use of data for evaluators in 2017
- Siegmann, Lauren - Emotions, relationships, and politics between external evaluation consultants, program staff, and non-Indigenous organisational cultures in the conduct of evaluation of Indigenous programs.
- Slattery, David - Balancing learning and accountability: building an effective internal evaluation function for Australia's foreign aid program
- Smith, James - What do we know about evaluation in Indigenous higher education contexts in Australia?
- Stephens, Anne - The global political participation and leadership of women: Use of the ISE4GEMs approach to undertake a UN Women corporate evaluation
- Stevenson, Amanda - Evaluating large scale education reform in the delivery of initial teacher education in Australia.
- Street, Cat - Messy work! Combining participatory action research and developmental evaluation approaches in remote NT Indigenous communities.
- Sweeney, Damien - From theory of hope to theory of change: learning from behaviour change practice to strengthen project design and evaluation
- Togni, Samantha - Power and political positioning in Indigenous evaluation: Exploring the relationship between developmental evaluation and cultural responsiveness in evaluation
- Tulloch, Charlie - In the deep end? Evaluation 101 for new evaluators
- Turvey, David - Embedding evaluation systems into government
- Unger, Zita - How to be a Front-end Champion: Five principles for building evaluation capital
- Unger, Zita - Evaluation Capacity Building and Social Capital
- Vale, Carol - The value of incorporating Aboriginal cultural knowledge (human capital) into an Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Service evaluation to deliver credible and useable findings to both community and government.
- Vichta, Rhianon - What would we use and how would we use it? Can innovative digital technology be used to both enhance and evaluate wellbeing outcomes with highly vulnerable and disadvantaged young people?
- Watts, Helen - The benefits of independence to the use of findings for the evaluation of a long-term biodiversity monitoring program.
- Westhorp, Gill - Fidelity, contextualisation and sustainability: Demonstrating conceptual platforms in evaluation
- White, Toni - Hybrid evaluation in science organisations. A shared experience
- White, Toni - Applying a Theory of Change in a Developmental Evaluation project to influence system-level change in New Zealand's AgriculturaI Innovation System
- Williams, Kathryn - Evaluation of a settlement service delivery model for newly arrived refugees in Australia
- Winterford, Keren - One step removed: Making sense of evaluating a governance reform project for climate change and disaster risk management in the Pacific.