The 2024 Emerging New Talent Award has been awarded to two emerging evaluators, both already recognised by their peers for their contributions.
Carla Pozo Jeria
Carla (photo left) is clearly recognised by her peers as an expert in qualitative methods and has worked in a very difficult area of 'working with children' which is seldom done in evaluation studies.
Carla has moved up very quickly to managing evaluation studies at prestigious research organisations (Melbourne University Center for Program Evaluation (CPE), and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI). She has developed some very professional tools and practices in working with children which would be usefully made available more widely. Her references are extensive and consistently very positive. Carla has already published in the children's health research area, delivered training in qualitative methods, and presented at conferences.
Martina Donkers
Martina's (photo right) contributions to the AES are many and varied including workshop facilitation, the AES Peer-Group Mentoring Program Working Group, the aes25 Canberra Committee, co-authorship on an EJA article (Turner, et. al., 2024), and conference presentations.
She has completed a Masters at The University of Melbourne with 1st Class honours. There is excellent feedback on an AES workshop that she delivered. Martina has conducted a wide range of evaluations for an emerging evaluator. There is strong evidence of good use of evaluation theories and approaches.
About the Emerging New Talent Award
This Award recognises emerging evaluators who have been working in the field of evaluation for fewer than five years. In this time, they will have made a significant contribution to the profession or practice of evaluation and will have demonstrated both quality and effectiveness in their work. Contributions may include evidence of leadership in professional activities or substantial accomplishments in their work and voluntary activities.