The branch offers seminars and workshops periodically for AES members and others interested in evaluation. You are welcome to attend the next seminar and networking meeting.
Participatory clinic
Evaluation Dilemmas
Date: 14 September 2010
Presenter: Professor Elliot Stern, keynote speaker at the 2010 AES conference
Clinic fees: $410 AES members and those from non-government not-for-profit organisations, $553 non-members (incl. GST) 50% Discount for full time students
Workshop focus and approach
The workshop will adopt a 'clinic' type approach in which participants are encouraged to bring their real world evaluation dilemmas which will then be analysed together in small facilitated groups. Frameworks and alternative approaches will be presented and discussed alongside inputs from participants. The types of issues to be covered should draw on the following range:
- choosing methods
- relating to clients and stakeholders
- using frameworks, theories and concepts
- working with policy communities
- how conclusions are framed
The workshop is designed to enable participants to analyse a range of evaluation dilemmas in order to identify and clarify the issues involved and to examine possible options for addressing these issues and working through the dilemmas.
Who should attend
The expectation is that participants will be experienced evaluators generally familiar with the field and currently or recently involved in an actual evaluation from which they can share one or more evaluation dilemmas.
Commissioners of evaluations could also attend but the workshop is more likely to match the needs of practicing evaluators. Numbers will be limited to 25.
For more information on the clinic and presenter, and the registration form Download Flyer
| March 2 | Seminar | So what is ‘Realist Synthesis’, anyway? Dr Geoff Wong, University College London; GP Principal, Swiss Cottage, London Download Flyer |
| April 13 | Seminar | Qualitative Approaches to Evaluation of Communications for |
| May 4 | Seminar | Creating Capacity: New Approaches to Evaluation in Education |
| May 20 & 21 | Workshop | Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks Anne Markiewicz Download Flyer |
| June 30 | Workshop | Using purposeful program theory and logic models for evidence-based policy and practice Professor Patricia Rogers Download Flyer |
| July 6 | Seminar | Everything you always wanted to know about evaluation but didn’t know who to ask… |
| September 14 | Patricipatory Clinic | Evaluation Dilemmas |
2009 Program
| March 4 | Workshop |
End of Program Evaluation of ‘Our Rural Landscape' Dr Martin Andrew, URS Australia Slides of this presentation |
| April 21 | Launch of 2009 program |
On Track in Major Change? The Case of the Adelaide Zoo |
| May 12 May 13 (repeat) |
Workshop | Report by outcomes! Participatory Performance Story Reporting technique |
| May 26 | Seminar | Getting started in evaluation and experiences of recent students Dr Martin Andrew, Dr Colin Sharp, Alissa Smart & Dr Emily Moskwa Download Flyer |
| July 7 | Seminar | Large scale monitoring & evaluation – the case of
the Vietnam-Australia Monitoring & Evaluation
Support Program (VAMESP) |
| August 4 | Seminar | Evaluating to Bridge the Political Divide Professor Rick Sarre Download Flyer |
| August 13 & 14 | Workshop | Getting Real(ist) About Evaluating Community Services Dr Gill Westhorp |
| September 8 |
Seminar | Evaluation in a Data and Outcomes Vacuum Plus the opportunity for Feeback from the 2009 AES Conference |
| October | Seminar | Using Evaluation Evidence to Inform Health and Health Service Reform Prof Robyn McDermott, Prof Kerin O’Dea, and Prof Justin Beilby Download Flyer |
| November 10 | Seminar | What gets measured gets done. |
AES Workshop
Using purposeful program theory and logic models for evidence-based policy and practice
Presenter: Professor Patricia Rogers
30 June 2010
Presenter: Patricia Rogers
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AES Two Day Workshop
Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks
20 & 21 May 2010
Presenter: Anne Markiewicz
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AES Two Day Workshop
Getting Real(ist) About Evaluating Community Services
13 & 14 August 2009
Presenter: Dr Gill Westhorp
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AES One day workshop
Report by outcomes! Participatory Performance Story Reporting technique
12 May (repeat 13 May) 2009
Presenter: Dr Jessica Dart
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AES Two Day Workshop
October 2008
Introduction to Evaluation
Presenter: Dr Paul Chesterton
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December 2007 - Why evaluate Wine?
A light-Hearted Discussion with James Godfrey, Australia's leading fortified winemaker
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October 2007 - ‘The Best of the Best’ Highlights of the Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference
July 2007 - Building Evidence for Welfare Interventions: Evaluation, Programs and Policy Development
Ms Karen Grogan
Slides of this presentation
May 2007 - Program Evaluation for Healthier Communities
Dr
Michelle Phillips
Slides of this presentation (Ppt 5 Mb)
March 2007 - South Australian Government Reform: a Role for Evaluation?
Dr Tom Stubbs
Slides of this presentation
December 2006 - Oral History and Evaluation
Win Haseloff
Paper for this presentation
August 2006 - Challenges and Applications of Evaluation in Local Government
Debra Just, General Manager, Strategy and Policy, City of Onkapari
Slides of this presentation (pdf 3.8 Mb)
June 2006 – Assessing Progress on South Australia’s Strategic Plan
Tanya Smith, Executive Director, Office of the Executive Committee for Cabinet
Slides of this
presentation (PowerPoint, 485 kb)
April 2006 - Evaluating the Stronger Families & Stronger
Communities Strategy 2000-4:
A Case Study
Peter Tyler
Slides of this
presentation (pdf, 308kb)
February 2006 - First Seminar for the year - Evaluating Environmental Programs
Paul Laris
Slides of this
presentation (PowerPoint, 171kb)
Gill Westhorp (Regional Representative) email
Don Allan
Martin Andrew
Anne Bosio
John Collins
Peter Drake
John Goslino
Emily Moskwa
John Pilla
Colin Sharp