aes22 International Evaluation Conference

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This program is a draft only and subject to change. All reasonable care has been taken by the Australian Evaluation Society, errors and omissions excepted.

9:00am ACST

Opening plenary: Welcome to Country, followed by Nan Wehipeihana "Evaluation in pursuit of Indigenous health equity. Weaving courage, evidence and evaluative insights in a funder-commissioned evaluation" Hall D (plenary)

11:00am ACST

Identifying unintended consequences through inclusive evaluative design Riverbank Room 1 Committed to mentoring Riverbank Room 2 Evaluation in 12 Words and Pictures - A Game for all Players 9 to 99 Room E3 Measuring Local Change - Stronger Communities for Children program Room E2 Overcoming culturally-biased methods: A step by step approach to applying culturally responsive evaluation to evaluation design Room E1 Telling Our Stories Our Way: Grounding First Nations Data Sovereignty Hall D (plenary)

11:30am ACST

Evaluation of Gippsland Aboriginal Advocacy Support Service (GAASS): Investigating the experiences of employees in preparation for work with NDIS clients, carers, families and Community Riverbank Room 1 PDIA: A new fad or the future for capacity development programs? Riverbank Room 2

12:00pm ACST

Using Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning to support locally led systemic reform - the case of the Vanuatu Skills Partnership Riverbank Room 1 From Words to Wisdom - New Ways of Using Text Data to Inform Evaluation Room E2 Application of principles to practice: an examination of two rapid evaluations. Room E3 Evaluation 'drop in' Clinics Riverbank Room 2 Giving the Participant the Driver's Seat: Using Virtual Reality animation for Evaluation Riverbank Room 2 How behavioural science can improve evaluation - 3 useful approaches Riverbank Room 2 New ways of weaving during a pandemic: Adapting to the dynamic flow of an evaluand Riverbank Room 2 Co-designing with Traditional Owners - the opportunity for system weaving at a program design and evaluation level Room E1 More than a self-licking ice cream Hall D (plenary)

1:30pm ACST

Participatory Realist Evaluation in a large state government agency: weaving evaluation findings into policy and implementation Room E3 A framework for evaluating in digital contexts Riverbank Room 2 Exploring Action Research as a method of creating evidence that is informed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of being, doing and knowing. Room E1 New tools for supporting culturally safe evaluation and practice Room E2 Showcasing evaluation through publication in the Evaluation Journal of Australasia Riverbank Room 1 Relationships, reciprocity and trust: Centring First Nations people in evaluation to support effective co-design of financial governance training Hall D (plenary)

2:00pm ACST

Translating evaluation findings into practice‚ a partnership approach Room E3 Taking a digital approach to impact reporting: Creating the Impact Hub Riverbank Room 2 "- Story Catching, Story Telling and Story Weaving - How story can be weaved into other programs and policies beyond the Monitoring and Evaluation of Indigenous programs." Room E1

2:30pm ACST

Weaving evaluation into program implementation: Using evaluation findings to inform program learning and decision making Room E3 Challenges and lessons learnt of establishing data sets for rapidly changing initiatives Riverbank Room 2 Weaving a Rebalance of Power and Advancing Equity through Culturally Responsive and Equity-Oriented Evaluation Practises: A Case Example Room E2 AES State of Evaluation Project Riverbank Room 1 'Old Ways of Weaving' - evaluation perspectives from the oldest living Culture. Case studies from a Community-led evaluation. Hall D (plenary)

3:00pm ACST

Ethical evaluation in 3 dimensions Room E1 The ins and outs of weaving a collaborative evaluation model alongside the development of a national workforce development strategy. Room E3 Towards better inclusion of gender and sexually diverse people in evaluation Room E1 Applying advanced technologies to evaluation Riverbank Room 2 Honouring our First Nations Children – Our Stories, Our Knowledge, Our Values - Our Evaluation Room E1 Sustaining Indigenous youth futures in urban and regional places through culturally based programs: The Ngaramura Program. Room E1

4:00pm ACST

Plenary two: community panel "Storytelling for systems change at community level: insights from the field" Hall D (plenary)

9:00am ACST

Plenary three: Katina D’Onise "Public health challenges and evaluative thinking: rapid responses in the time of Covid-19" Hall D (plenary)

10:30am ACST

Using outcome hierarchies to drive consistent and efficient evaluation planning for Government Portfolios Riverbank Room 1 Evaluation in regulatory contexts: Same same but different, with perspectives from the experts and practitioners Hall D (plenary) Weaving together or patching things up: Are commissioners, implementers, and evaluators partners or antagonists? Room E1 Citizen science: What is the value and the feasibility for evaluators and for our stakeholders? Room E3 Mind the innovation gap: the unfortunate tale of great programme design let down by traditional commissioning and contracting methods, and what this means for evaluators. Room E2 "...It's time we researched ourselves back to life" Riverbank Room 2

11:00am ACST

Weaving evaluation capability through public sector practice: a reflexive conversation Riverbank Room 1

11:30am ACST

"Evaluation Readiness Weaving evaluative inquiry through the fabric of policy/program design, delivery, and performance" Room E1 Weaving evaluation into a large government agency: Sharing the ATO Evaluation Hub's favoured methods, tools and activities to facilitate learning by current and emerging evaluators Riverbank Room 1 Found in translation Riverbank Room 2 The great debate: should evaluation be the central source of evidence for government decision-making? Hall D (plenary) If you build it, they will come: Building organisational evaluative practice and capacity Room E3 Rapid prototyping evaluation Room E2

12:00pm ACST

Weaving a Theory of Change into complex corporate, policy and program settings for better practice performance information and reporting: A Commonwealth perspective Room E1 Innovative practices to support ex-post CBA evaluation Riverbank Room 1 Valuing Collecting Institutions in the Northern Territory: Weaving Evaluation into the Sector Riverbank Room 2

1:30pm ACST

The Power of Many: How collaboration can strengthen evaluations Riverbank Room 1 Slow cooking and weaving evaluation into a 12-year community-led initiative Room E1 Help! I'm doing an impact evaluation, what evidence do I need? Room E2 Rapid Insight Cycles: Generating usable insights 'on-the-run' for equity-focused decision-making at policy and operational levels Hall D (plenary) AES Diversity and Inclusion Policy Riverbank Room 2 Fellows forum Room E3

2:00pm ACST

Tackling seven common challenges facing internal evaluators in education: A discussion on process, impact, and team culture Riverbank Room 1

3:00pm ACST

Plenary four: government panel "Weaving Evaluation in policy and program development" Hall D (plenary)

9:00am ACST

Plenary five: Amy Gullickson "Soul and Maturity: On Being Evaluators" Hall D (plenary)

10:30am ACST

Completing the picture: Building the tools to weave Indigenous paradigms into evaluation practice Room E1 Learning together - Reflections on the evaluation of the Victorian place-based suicide prevention trial from the community, the policy maker and the evaluator Hall D (plenary) Rapid, rigorous, resource lite: Impact measurement for anyone Riverbank Room 2 Amplify Social Impact Online- An introduction to CSI's survey design, distribution and analysis platform. Riverbank Room 1 Problem-solving ethics: Weaving resources and strategies into navigating ethics in evaluation Room E3 How we can address environmental sustainability in our evaluations? Room E2

11:00am ACST

Culturally adaptive governance for culturally safe evaluation: Lessons from an Aboriginal majority owned consulting firm Room E1

11:30am ACST

Designing for impact with multicultural community-led projects: Evaluation of a Cancer screening grants program Riverbank Room 1 "The boys have as much say as what we do around what happens": Co-design in indigenous youth programmes and evaluation design" Room E1 Evaluating place-based approaches in schools: Reflections from evaluators and practitioners in Schools as Community Hubs Hall D (plenary) Beyond justification: The potential of program theories and its radical implications for evaluation practice and program planning Room E3 Advances in rubric implementation Riverbank Room 2 Where to next? Weaving values into evaluation practice Room E2

12:00pm ACST

Measuring community resilience after disasters Riverbank Room 1 Whose theory anyway? Riverbank Room 1 Assessing Evaluation Capacity: Introducing the Evaluation Capacity Health Check Riverbank Room 1 Cake and competencies: how we evaluated ourselves and reinvigorated our professional development as self-taught evaluators Riverbank Room 1 Cumulative evaluation in practice: Sharing the power of systematically evaluating small community events and activities to increase evaluators' ability to report on project outcomes. Riverbank Room 1 Weaving together - learnings from the field when working with diverse knowledges towards transformative practice Room E1

1:30pm ACST

Providing a pathway through complexity: using 'simple rules' to guide evaluation of a transformational change program in mental health care Riverbank Room 2 Process tracing as an evaluation tool Room E1 Weaving greater equity into evaluation practice Room E2 Evaluating contribution from the ground up Riverbank Room 1 Evaluator Competencies: Self-Assessment Room E3 Collaborating with people with lived experience in evaluation: a practical framework and perspectives Hall D (plenary)

2:00pm ACST

COVID-19 Vaccination - Integrating evaluation, continuous improvement and delivery during a one in one-hundred-year event Riverbank Room 2 "Social media as an evaluation listening and monitoring tool Case study: Instagram, Australian farming women, social media and climate change" Room E1

2:30pm ACST

Collaborating on evaluation guidance: building the NSW government evaluation guidelines Room E3 Using evaluation to shine bright at the Starlight Children's Foundation Riverbank Room 2 Zero Suicide Healthcare: program evaluation for improved suicide care and prevention Room E1 Speed vs evidence: A digital evaluator's perspective Riverbank Room 1 Comic-based digital storytelling: An innovative tool in the Evaluator's toolkit Room E2

3:00pm ACST

Plenary six: "Unfolding the conference tapestry" Hall D (plenary)