I'm an Associate Professor of Evaluation at the University of Melbourne Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre. I'm also a co-founder and current chair of the International Society for Evaluation Education
https://www.isee-evaled.com/, a long-time member of the AES Pathways Committee (and its predecessors), and an architect of the University of Melbourne’s fully online, multi-disciplinary, Master and Graduate Certificate of Evaluation programs
https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/master-of-evaluation/ .
I practice, teach, and proselytize evaluation as a transdiscipline - that is, as a discipline of its own, and a tool used in all other disciplines.
My teaching and research are focused on creating clarity about what evaluation is and what good evaluation looks like: i.e., credible, systematic, and useful determinations of merit, worth or significance through the application of defensible criteria and standards to demonstrably relevant empirical facts. This means evaluation must surface and deal with values that underpin what good looks like, employ robust research to understand performance, and offer clear and transparent reasoning to arrive at judgements about how good that performance is. Following on from that, I am studying, thinking about, and experimenting with what people and organisations need to know and be able to do to deliver good evaluation, and what strategies will help them learn how to do good evaluation. I do all that because I'm pretty sure evaluation is essential if we’re going to save the world.
I'm a graduate of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation at Western Michigan University, where I learnt the logic of evaluation from Michael Scriven, the Program Evaluation Standards from Dan Stufflebeam, and Mainstreaming Evaluation from Jim Sanders. I'm a sociable introvert. Ask me about what I'm reading, or about the connections my brain is busy making among seemingly disparate things. See some of my stick people in my aes22 keynote here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1KJD-DY-lo. :)