2018 AES International Conference - Launceston - Presentations

Program and abstract book

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NOTE:

• Only the first author has been listed below.
• Not all presenters submitted presentations, or gave permission to publish.
• Full text papers will be published in the EJA after review.

Keynote Addresses

• Quinn Patton, Michael – Getting real about transformational change: The Blue Marble Evaluation perspective
• Hagen, Penny – Scaling up, out and deep: What we are learning about social innovation for transformation
• Olejniczak, Karol – Transforming evaluation practice with serious games
• Gollan, Sharon and Stacey, Kathleen  – Cultural accountability in evaluating Aboriginal initiatives and programs

Presentations

• AES Advocacy Committee – Developing an AES Advocacy and Influence Strategy: A consultation and co-design session for AES members
• Arbour, Ghislain – Theories on and of: A systematic analysis of evaluation's domains of knowledge
• Askew, Deborah – Developmental evaluation, biostatisics, primary health care researcher and Indigenous voices: Culture clash or symbiotic relationship?
• Aston, Ruth – The Promise Design-thinking and Implementation Science holds for Social Impact Evaluation: Views from Practitioners and Evaluators
• Atkinson, Gerard – Leveraging publicly available longitudinal and transactional data sources to create comparison groups in quasi-experimental and natural experimental evaluation scenarios
• Atkinson, Lewis – Is this strategy working?: The systems thinking approach to investing for impact
• Atkinson, Gerard – Sizing up social campaigns - Evaluation in a market research world
• Atkinson, Gerard – Evolving the evaluation deliverable
• Bailey, Robyn – New words, old approaches: Weaving together foundational principles for contributing to transformation through evaluation
• Barnes, Ben – Big data, big possibilities, big challenges: Lessons from using quasi-experimental designs in evaluation of educational reforms
• Borg, Dan – Traps for young players: a panel session by new evaluators for new evaluators
• Borg, Dan – Designing better surveys: from zero to hero
• Carey, Timothy – Transforming evaluation relationships: Evaluators as responsive and flexible mentors
• Collazos, Maria – Youth Partnership Project: Applying place-based collective impact and evaluating for systems change
• Cuthbertson, Evie – For all in tents and porpoises: the use of spell check in evalaution
• Dart, Jess – Umbrellas and rain drops: Evaluating systems change lessons and insights from Tasmania
• Demetriou, Francesca – Synthesising Kirkpatrick's four-levels
• Denniss, Rebecca – What we wish we'd known: The experiences of new and emerging evaluators
• Dolman, Kevin – Evaluative study to assist a transformation of the Indigenous affairs system
• Downing, Liam – Bring a friend to work day: The value of dragging non evaluator colleagues along to the AES Conference
• Drake, Robert – Integrating evaluation and design roles: Innovations in recent NGO projects
• Ellinson, Alexandra – Exploring innovation in evidence-based programs
• Elliott, Julie – Transforming evaluation to better address complexity
• Farmer, Joanna – Evaluating influence
• Farmer, Joanna – Joining the dots: evaluation and strategy
• Farmer, Joanna – When an evaluator benefits: the challenges of managing values and power in evaluating with a lived experience
• Field, Adrian – Evaluation fatigue and the tragedy of the commons: Are we plundering our participants' finite resources of patience and trust?
• Frances, Kate – Reconciliation Action Plans as drivers of social change: The engagement process in the evaluation of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games RAP
• Gullickson, Amy – Values and Synthesis: Evaluation's Power Core
• Gullickson, Amy – Doing evaluation: Task analysis as a pathway to progress evaluation education
• Hassall, Keryn – Working with values in evaluation
• Healey, Matt – Learning from Failure: A Safe Space Session
• Healey, Matt – Just add water: The ingredients of an evaluation consultant
• Hogan, Amy – Integrated Care Maturity Model
• Hornby, Kristy – How algorithms shape our lives: evaluating the unseen
• Jackson, Cathy – Designing research and evaluation for a complex system: The Stronger Smarter Approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education
• Jones, Amanda – Visionary, maybe, but how viable? Understanding executive leaders' thinking about evaluation mainstreaming within child and family welfare
• Kearney, Sarah – Taking an intersectional approach to evaluation and monitoring: moving from theory to practice
• Kmit, Stefan – Principles before rules: Child-centred, family-focused and practitioner-led evaluation in child protection
• Kwan, Michelle – Improving the quality of suicide prevention programs: Strengthening the evidence-base with evaluation and collaborative partnerships
• Leahy, Sue – Using co-design to give voice to Aboriginal people in the design of a culturally appropriate infant maternal health service
• Leonard, Linda – Whose outcome is it anyway? Using matrices to serve many masters
• Leslie, Sarah – Maximising the Value Add of a Strategic Evaluation Function in an International Non-Government Organisation (NGO)
• Lewis, Virginia – Alcohol Culture Change: developing an overarching framework and method to evaluate activities under the VicHealth Alcohol Culture Change Initiative
• Lloyd, Delyth – Evaluation capacity building: Transforming evaluation culture or spinning wheels?
• Ludowyk, Natasha – Charting a course through unpredictable seas: How Amaze is using evaluative approaches to adapt to large-scale sector reform without losing sight of long term outcomes
• Maher, Louise – Buka Hatene - an innovative model promoting adaptive management for improved aid effectiveness in Timor-Leste
• Maloney, Jade – Strengthening program impact on systems and building evaluation into systems
• Manley, Catherine – Thinking local and global: Tasmanian lessons in pursuit of Transformational Systems Change
• Markiewicz, Anne – Ethical Dilemmas in Evaluation Practice
• McCausland, Ruth – Economic evaluation of justice support: Transforming life pathways for people with intellectual disability
• McDiarmid, Tracy – We are Women! We are Ready! Amplifying our voice through Participatory Action Research
• McDonald, Ellie – Ethics in evaluation: navigating ethical requirements and processes to improve the quality of evaluation
• McEniry, Sophie – Embracing the"Fish out of Water"; - a novice evaluators' experience introducing reflective practice to influence systems transformation
• McGeary, Julie – Transforming evaluation: Necessary but not sufficient to make a meaningful contribution to society
• McKegg, Kate – Evaluative Rubrics: A tool for making explicit evaluative judgements    Presentation 2
• McMartin, Tracey – Transforming evaluation culture and systems within the Australian aid program: Embracing the power of evaluation to promote learning, transparency, and accountability
• McMillan, Larelle – Transforming research organisations via monitoring, evaluation and learning: how can we evaluate our own work?
• Meldrum, Kathryn – Inclusive Systemic Evaluation: Gender equality, Environments, Marginalised voices for Social justice (ISE4GEMS) - A New UN Women Approach for the SDG Era
• Mellon, Emily – From outputs to outcomes: A system transformation approach for the Victorian child and family service sector
• Moeller, Sarah – Transforming the experience of seriously ill children, young people and their families - A real life example of evaluation in action
• Morton, Dave – The Enhanced Commonwealth Performance Framework - the opportunity for the Australian evaluation community
• Mowson, Ikarini – Lessons on designing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting for policy influence programs– 
• Page, Carolyn – 'Drive out fear': creating space for evaluative thinking and speculation for practitioners and organisations
• Pakula, Byron – Why do well designed ME systems seldom inform decision making?
• Parata, Kiri – Sharing research results to shape future services
• Percy, Helen – Systemic transformation in action: Turbo-charging evaluation and impact in the New Zealand science system
• Pitt, Ruth – Evaluation Ready: Transforming government processes and ensuring evaluability  Presentation 2
• Pitt, Ruth – Evaluation reports: Writing, editing and wrangling Word
• Porter, Tanja – Beyond 'reach': Rethinking the evaluation of digital government
• Raetz, Stuart – The promise and practice of partner-led evaluation: a policy research programme case study
• Riley, Jenny – Outcomes, dashboards and cupcakes
• Roche, Chris – Evaluation and Transformation: It's the Politics Stupid
• Rogers, Alison – Evaluation literacy: Exploring the skills needed to motivate and enable others to access, understand and use evaluation information in non-government organisations
• Scally-Irvine, Kara – Freaking Super Sweet Webinars: learning new tricks from young guns (aka Webinars 101: AES webinar working group reports back)
• Schwarzman, Joanna – The potential for system level change: Addressing political and funding level factors to facilitate health promotion and disease prevention evaluation
• Shapland, Michael – The Office of the Inspector-General's Cyclone Debbie Review: Lessons for delivering value and confidence through trust and empowerment
• Siegmann, Lauren – In their own words: How we (the boring adults) worked with young people (the cool kids) in Papua New Guinea to develop a bilingual post-program survey, why we did it, and why it was a good idea
• Smith, Elizabeth – TLDR (too long, didn't read): Let's knife evaluation reports
• Smith, James – "It's about involving Aboriginal people in every aspect of decision making": Understanding the enablers and drivers of evaluation in Indigenous higher education in Australia
• Sotelo, Eunice – Emerging evaluators panel: Evaluators in transition in the way they think about and do M&E
• Stacey, Kathleen – Personal and professional transformation through cultural safety training: Learnings and implications for evaluators from two decades of professional development
• Stamp, Sarah – Designing a transformative evaluation framework
• Strempel, Anna – The Lived Experience Evaluators Project: Combining design thinking and innovation to build cultural capital in the evaluation sector
• Tiller, Eboni – Realities of monitoring and evaluation in a not-for-profit
• Togni, Samantha – Developmental evaluation in Indigenous contexts: transforming power relations at the interface of different knowledge systems
• Tolmer, Zazie – Evaluative thinking and strategic learning - nice words, do they make any difference?
• Tolmer, Zazie – When do we have enough evidence!!!
• Trudzik, Les – Total value measurement: Are we counting what actually counts?
• Walker, Clara – Measuring a healthy workplace environment in 10 questions: Developing a rapid environmental audit tool for Victorian workplaces
• Walsh, Bronny – Realist Evaluation: Tracing the Evolution of Realist Program Theory over the Years of the Resilient Futures Project in South Australia
• Westhorp, Gill – Realist axiology: A realist perspective on 'valuing' in evaluation
• Williams, Emma – 'What about me?': A campfire session to co-design transformational self-care guidelines for evaluators
• Williams, Emma – Q: Can realist evaluations be designed to be more suitable for use in Indigenous contexts? (A: It depends)
• Wilson, Jessie – Into the great wide open (data): Understanding and using big and open data in evaluations
• Winterford, Keren – The offerings and challenges of transdisciplinarity for evaluation