aes24 International Evaluation Conference

Conference hashtag #aes24MEL

Amy Vassallo

Health ERA

Principal Consultant

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9:00am AEST

Opening plenary: Welcome to Country followed by June Oscar "Wiyi Yani U Thangani - re-imagining evaluation with a gender justice lens" Plenary 1Jess Dart • June Oscar AO • Kiri Parata

11:00am AEST

Innovating Value for Money: Finding Our Way to Greater Value for All 105Jade Maloney • Julian King • John Gargani • Farida Fleming

12:00pm AEST

Navigating collaborative practice - the role of evaluation in brokering shared outcomes 106Anthea Rutter • Caroline Crothers Enhancing Stakeholder Engagement Through Culturally Sensitive Approaches: A Focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities 105Jade Maloney • Carol Vale • Mark Power

10:30am AEST

Commissioning evaluations - finding the way from a transactional to a relational approach Plenary 1Vanessa Hood • Eleanor Williams • Skye Trudgett • George Argyrous • Josephine Norman • Luke Craven • Kristy Hornby

11:30am AEST

Social Impact Measurement & Evaluation – the similarities & differences that complement our journey to more fit-for-purpose destinations. 106Mary Ann Wong • Caitlin Barry • Elliott Tester • Gerard Atkinson • Paula Simões dos Santos • Sandra Opoku Navigating complex government reforms: a tool to examine program theory. How complete and relevant is government program theory? 105Charlie Tulloch • Nerida Rixon

12:00pm AEST

Getting to the value add: Timely insights from a realist developmental evaluation Plenary 1Vanessa Hood • Phillip Belling

1:30pm AEST

The Art of Qualitative Sensemaking: Exploring New Methods 105Janet Conte • Matt Healey • Sharon Marra_Brown • Monica Wabuke • Alli Burness

2:30pm AEST

Our new ways: Reforming our approach to impact measurement and learning 105Janet Conte • Kaitlyn Scannell

3:30pm AEST

Constructing a Wisdom Base: A Hands-On Exploration of First Nations Knowledge Systems 106Sandra Ayoo • Skye Trudgett • Levi McKenzie-Kirkbright • Haley Ferguson • Tara Beattie • Jess Dart

10:30am AEST

Involving children and young people in evaluations: Equity through active participation Plenary 1Laura Bird • Sharon Marra_Brown • Moya Johansson • Mitchell Rice-Brading Following the (matched) data to understand impact: adventures in quasi-experimental evaluation 101-102Allison Clarke • Kira Duggan • Mohib Iqbal • Ben McNally

11:00am AEST

Value Propositions: Clearing the path from theory of change to rubrics Plenary 1Laura Bird • Julian King • Adrian Field Impact evaluation: bringing together quantitative methods and program theory in mixed method evaluations 101-102Allison Clarke • Peter Bowers • Vera Newman

12:00pm AEST

If the destination is improvement, recommendations are the signpost 106Rachel George • Larissa Brisbane • Laura Baker

1:30pm AEST

Navigating ethics dilemmas when evaluating for government: The good, the bad and the ugly Plenary 1Sally Clifford • Mandy Charman • Kristy Hornby • Eleanor Williams

2:00pm AEST

A practical approach to designing and implementing outcome measures in psychosocial support services. 101-102James Copestake • Lauren Gibson

2:30pm AEST

Closing plenary: Panel, John Gargani "Finding Our Way to the Future Profession of Evaluation" Plenary 1Amy Gullickson • Indy Johar • John Gargani • James Copestake • Doyen Radcliffe • Elizabeth Hoffecker • Kiri Parata