aes24 International Evaluation Conference

Conference hashtag #aes24MEL

11:00am AEST

Design-stage evaluative thinking: helping NGOs and grant makers learn to love evaluation from the start 103Christina Kadmos • Duncan Rintoul • Claire Grealy • Jacqueline Webb • Virginia Poggio • Kirsty Burrow • Luciana Campello The psychology of evaluation capacity building: Finding the way with the rider, elephant and the pathway 106Anthea Rutter • Samantha Abbato Innovating Value for Money: Finding Our Way to Greater Value for All 105Jade Maloney • Julian King • John Gargani • Farida Fleming

1:30pm AEST

Sign here: Supporting Deaf participation in evaluation 103Squirrel Main • Susie Fletcher Link-Up Services and wayfinding: Co-creating and navigating a culturally safe national monitoring and evaluation strategy Plenary 1Kathleen Stacey • Raelene Rosas • Patricia Thompson AM

2:30pm AEST

Elevating evaluation: practical insights for supporting systems transformation 101-102Nick Field • Kathryn Erskine • Michael Maher

4:30pm AEST

Evaluation Lab: Using design to solve evaluation challenges Plenary 1Duncan Rintoul • Matt Healey • Shani Rajendra

11:00am AEST

Culturally inclusive evaluation with culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia 101-102Caitlin Vaughan • Lena Etuk

11:30am AEST

Bringing the "human" into measurement: From in-depth inquiry to systemic change 104Su-Ann Drew • Julia Suh • JESSICA LEEFE A new tool for participatory evaluation: A case study of the process of conducting online workshops with young creators with disabilities to tell stories using virtual reality animation 103Michael Amon • Samantha Abbato

12:00pm AEST

Systems evaluation to the rescue!: How do we use systems evaluation to improve societal and planetary wellbeing? 104Su-Ann Drew • Kristy Hornby • Tenille Moselen Optimising Evaluations of Wellbeing Programs in Schools 105Charlie Tulloch • Tamara Van Der Zant • Dr Katherine Dix

1:30pm AEST

Scaling Impact: How Should We Evaluate the Success of a Scaling Journey? 106Carolyn Wallace • John Gargani The Art of Qualitative Sensemaking: Exploring New Methods 105Janet Conte • Matt Healey • Sharon Marra_Brown • Monica Wabuke • Alli Burness

2:30pm AEST

Monitoring and Evaluation Journeys: Making footprints, community-based enterprise in Australian First Nations contexts 104Kathleen Stacey • Sharon Babyack • Donna-Maree Stephens A long road ahead: Evaluating long-term change in complex policy areas. A case study of school active travel programs in the ACT 106Carolyn Wallace • Mallory Notting

3:30pm AEST

Reflections by a non-analyst on the use of state-wide data sets and modelled data in evaluation 104Claire Grealy • Gabby Lindsay-Smith

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 To tinker, tailor, or craft from scratch? The tension in using validated tools in novel contexts 104Phillip Belling • Matt Healey • Tenille Moselen • Alicia McCoy The Road Home - an evaluation journey to discover and demonstrate a new and exciting way to deliver a crisis housing response. 105Robert Sale • Anne Smyth • Lesley Thornton • Kym Coupe • Caroline Lynch Walking together: First Nations participation, partnerships and co-creation in Evaluation. 106Rachel George • Tony Kiessler • Alice Tamang • Nicole Tujague

11:00am AEST

Value Propositions: Clearing the path from theory of change to rubrics Plenary 1Laura Bird • Julian King • Adrian Field

11:30am AEST

Reflections on a Developmental Evaluation of a traditional healing service model for the Kimberley region of Western Australia 106Rachel George • Tammy Solonec • Gillian Kennedy • Eva Nargoodah Gamified, flexible, and creative tools for evaluating a support program for palliative children and their families 104Phillip Belling • Erika Fortunati

1:30pm AEST

Learning from the past: Reflections and opportunities for embedding measurement and evaluation in the national agenda to end Violence against Women and Children 106Milena Gongora • Lucy Macmillan • Tessa Boyd-Caine • Micaela Cronin • Tiffiny Lewin Measuring Impact Through Storytelling: using Most Significant Change to evaluate the effectiveness of QHub for LGBTIQA+ young people. 103Carina Calzoni • Gina Mancuso • Arielle Donnelly Putting values on the evaluation journey map 103Carina Calzoni • Samantha Abbato Squaring up with rubrics 103Carina Calzoni • Josh Duyker

2:00pm AEST

A practical approach to designing and implementing outcome measures in psychosocial support services. 101-102James Copestake • Lauren Gibson Introducing a trauma informed AI assessment tool for evaluators of AI (artificial intelligence) assisted programs and services. 104Kira Duggan • Lyndal Sleep