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aes22 International Evaluation Conference

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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)John Pilla • Kiri Parata • Nan Wehipeihana • Uncle Frank Wangutya Wanganeen

11:00am ACST

Identifying unintended consequences through inclusive evaluative design Riverbank Room 1Nataly Bovopoulos • Niketa Kulkarni • Nikki Bartlett Committed to mentoring Riverbank Room 2Squirrel Main • Julie Elliott Evaluation in 12 Words and Pictures - A Game for all Players 9 to 99 Room E3John Stoney • Samantha Abbato Measuring Local Change - Stronger Communities for Children program Room E2Binod Nepal • Hyemi Jacka • Allison Stewart Overcoming culturally-biased methods: A step by step approach to applying culturally responsive evaluation to evaluation design Room E1Ellise Barley • Kathryn Dinh Telling Our Stories Our Way: Grounding First Nations Data Sovereignty Hall D (plenary)Kathleen Stacey • corrine Hodson • Peter Riley • Skye Trudgett • Jessie Sleep • Darren Clinch

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 1Nataly Bovopoulos • Valerie Prokopiv PDIA: A new fad or the future for capacity development programs? Riverbank Room 2Squirrel Main • Erin Blake

12:00pm ACST

Using Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning to support locally led systemic reform - the case of the Vanuatu Skills Partnership Riverbank Room 1Nataly Bovopoulos • Ellis Theodor Silas • Stuart Kinsella From Words to Wisdom - New Ways of Using Text Data to Inform Evaluation Room E2Binod Nepal • Mark Mackay Application of principles to practice: an examination of two rapid evaluations. Room E3John Stoney • Jane Howard • Diz McKinnon Evaluation 'drop in' Clinics Riverbank Room 2Delyth Lloyd Giving the Participant the Driver's Seat: Using Virtual Reality animation for Evaluation Riverbank Room 2Squirrel Main • Samantha Abbato How behavioural science can improve evaluation - 3 useful approaches Riverbank Room 2Squirrel Main • Kizzy Gandy New ways of weaving during a pandemic: Adapting to the dynamic flow of an evaluand Riverbank Room 2Squirrel Main • Natasha Moloczij Utility in practice, a prisons pilot project: maximising an evaluation to meet the needs of prisoners, the project implementation team and policymakers Room E1Ellise Barley • Sam McArdle

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Participatory Realist Evaluation in a large state government agency: weaving evaluation findings into policy and implementation Room E3Martina Donkers • Eleanor Kerdo A framework for evaluating in digital contexts Riverbank Room 2Kate Williams • Matt Healey • Mallory Notting 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 E1Doyen Radcliffe • Reno French • Lucas Moore New tools for supporting culturally safe evaluation and practice Room E2Florent Gomez • Rosemary Smith Showcasing evaluation through publication in the Evaluation Journal of Australasia Riverbank Room 1Susie Fletcher • John Guenther • Jeff Adams • Anthea Rutter • Kwadwo Adusei-Asante Relationships, reciprocity and trust: Centring First Nations people in evaluation to support effective co-design of financial governance training Hall D (plenary)Michael Pilbrow • Belinda Wayne • Samantha Togni • Karina Menkhorst • Peter Marin • Valerie Martin • Peggy Granites • Marjorie Brown

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Translating evaluation findings into practice‚ a partnership approach Room E3Martina Donkers • Cathy Stirling Taking a digital approach to impact reporting: Creating the Impact Hub Riverbank Room 2Kate Williams • Cliona Fitzpatrick • Bree Earle "- 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 E1Doyen Radcliffe • Jade Wilson • Nerissa Walton • Susan Rooney-Harding

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Weaving evaluation into program implementation: Using evaluation findings to inform program learning and decision making Room E3Martina Donkers • Jake Phelan Challenges and lessons learnt of establishing data sets for rapidly changing initiatives Riverbank Room 2Kate Williams • Geraldine Marsh • Danielle Siler Weaving a Rebalance of Power and Advancing Equity through Culturally Responsive and Equity-Oriented Evaluation Practises: A Case Example Room E2Florent Gomez • Eva Sarr • Veronica Thomas AES State of Evaluation Project Riverbank Room 1Susie Fletcher • Jade Maloney • Matt Wright • Lauren Bierbaum • Robert Sale 'Old Ways of Weaving' - evaluation perspectives from the oldest living Culture. Case studies from a Community-led evaluation. Hall D (plenary)Michael Pilbrow • Skye Trudgett • Tanisha Lovett • Tammy Bundle • Abbie Lovett

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Ethical evaluation in 3 dimensions Room E1Doyen Radcliffe • Keryn Hassall The ins and outs of weaving a collaborative evaluation model alongside the development of a national workforce development strategy. Room E3Martina Donkers • Claire Marsh • Kerryn Garner Towards better inclusion of gender and sexually diverse people in evaluation Room E1Doyen Radcliffe • Jeff Adams Applying advanced technologies to evaluation Riverbank Room 2Kate Williams • Ethel Karskens Honouring our First Nations Children – Our Stories, Our Knowledge, Our Values - Our Evaluation Room E1Doyen Radcliffe • Candice Butler • Eva Ruggiero Sustaining Indigenous youth futures in urban and regional places through culturally based programs: The Ngaramura Program. Room E1Doyen Radcliffe • Selai Storer • Michelle Wilson

4:00pm ACST

Plenary two: community panel "Storytelling for systems change at community level: insights from the field" Hall D (plenary)Rachel Fyfe • Thea Snow • Jane McCracken • Alistair Ferguson

5:30pm ACST

AES 2022 Annual General Meeting Hall D (plenary)Kiri Parata

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)Katina D'Onise

10:30am ACST

Using outcome hierarchies to drive consistent and efficient evaluation planning for Government Portfolios Riverbank Room 1Rae Fry • Jasper Odgers • Bethany Hanson Evaluation in regulatory contexts: Same same but different, with perspectives from the experts and practitioners Hall D (plenary)Carina Calzoni • Dana Cross Weaving together or patching things up: Are commissioners, implementers, and evaluators partners or antagonists? Room E1Michael Amon • Gordon Freer 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 E2Gerard Atkinson • Judy Oakden • Julie Elliott Fellows forum: The Role of Evaluation in a Complicated World Room E3Ghislain Arbour • Rick Cummings • Nan Wehipeihana • Alan Woodward • Gill Westhorp "...It's time we researched ourselves back to life" Riverbank Room 2Lena Etuk • Amunda Gorey • Jen Lorains

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Weaving evaluation capability through public sector practice: a reflexive conversation Riverbank Room 1Rae Fry • Ruth Nicholls • Anne Fordham

11:30am ACST

"Evaluation Readiness Weaving evaluative inquiry through the fabric of policy/program design, delivery, and performance" Room E1Michael Amon • John Stoney • Michael Cole 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 1Rae Fry • Liesl Harrold • Robert Grimshaw Found in translation Riverbank Room 2Lena Etuk • Susan Garner The great debate: should evaluation be the central source of evidence for government decision-making? Hall D (plenary)Catriona Flavel • Delyth Lloyd • George Argyrous • Eleanor Williams Developmental Evaluation Demystified Room E2Gerard Atkinson • Jess Dart If you build it, they will come: Building organisational evaluative practice and capacity Room E3Ghislain Arbour • Georgina Roberts

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 E1Michael Amon • Evie Cuthbertson Innovative practices to support ex-post CBA evaluation Riverbank Room 1Rae Fry • Danielle Spruyt • Aditya Prasad Valuing Collecting Institutions in the Northern Territory: Weaving Evaluation into the Sector Riverbank Room 2Lena Etuk • Alison Reedy

1:30pm ACST

The Power of Many: How collaboration can strengthen evaluations Riverbank Room 1Laura Baker • Ruth Nicholls • Cara Donohue Slow cooking and weaving evaluation into a 12-year community-led initiative Room E1Emily Yorkston • Jess Dart • Victoria Halburd • Jess Decampo • Melinda Chiment • Mutsumi Karasaki Citizen science: What is the value and the feasibility for evaluators and for our stakeholders? Room E3Joanne Porter • Yvonne Laird • Katherine Pontifex Rapid Insight Cycles: Generating usable insights 'on-the-run' for equity-focused decision-making at policy and operational levels Hall D (plenary)Judy Gold • Judy Oakden • Nan Wehipeihana • Kahiwa Sebire Rapid prototyping evaluation Room E2Kylie Berg • Matt Healey AES Diversity and Inclusion Policy Riverbank Room 2Duncan Rintoul • Eleanor Williams • Florent Gomez

2:00pm ACST

Tackling seven common challenges facing internal evaluators in education: A discussion on process, impact, and team culture Riverbank Room 1Laura Baker • Lisa Walker • Christopher Banks • Julia Siddiqui

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Plenary four: government panel "Weaving Evaluation in policy and program development" Hall D (plenary)Suzanne Butler • Jessica Hartmann • Danielle Spruyt • Eleanor Williams

9:00am ACST

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

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Completing the picture: Building the tools to weave Indigenous paradigms into evaluation practice Room E1Alison Reedy • Sara Hudson • Rachel Bertram • Bronwen Dalton 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)Michaela Sargent • Anne Redman • Merryl Whyte • Andrew Dare Rapid, rigorous, resource lite: Impact measurement for anyone Riverbank Room 2Mathea Roorda • Min Seto Amplify Social Impact Online- An introduction to CSI's survey design, distribution and analysis platform. Riverbank Room 1Eden Robertson • Elizabeth-Rose Ahearn Problem-solving ethics: Weaving resources and strategies into navigating ethics in evaluation Room E3Emma Williams • Samantha Abbato • Lisette Kaleveld How we can address environmental sustainability in our evaluations? Room E2Julie Elliott • Patricia Rogers

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Culturally adaptive governance for culturally safe evaluation: Lessons from an Aboriginal majority owned consulting firm Room E1Alison Reedy • Belinda Kendall • Cat Street • Lauren O’Flaherty

11:30am ACST

Designing for impact with multicultural community-led projects: Evaluation of a Cancer screening grants program Riverbank Room 1Eden Robertson • Tove Anderson "The boys have as much say as what we do around what happens": Co-design in indigenous youth programmes and evaluation design" Room E1Alison Reedy • Hayden Clifford Bradley • Wheturangi Walsh - Tapiata • Gill Potaka Osborne Evaluating place-based approaches in schools: Reflections from evaluators and practitioners in Schools as Community Hubs Hall D (plenary)Michaela Sargent • Ruth Aston • Janet Clinton • Hayley Paproth • Katina Tan Beyond justification: The potential of program theories and its radical implications for evaluation practice and program planning Room E3Emma Williams • Ghislain Arbour Advances in rubric implementation Riverbank Room 2Mathea Roorda • Julian King • Gerard Atkinson • Jack Rutherford Where to next? Weaving values into evaluation practice Room E2Julie Elliott • Amy Gullickson • Allison Clarke • Jill Thomas

12:00pm ACST

Measuring community resilience after disasters Riverbank Room 1Eden Robertson • Michael Pilbrow • Sarah Dyer Assessing Evaluation Capacity: Introducing the Evaluation Capacity Health Check Riverbank Room 1Eden Robertson • Judy Gold • Emma Thomas Cake and competencies: how we evaluated ourselves and reinvigorated our professional development as self-taught evaluators Riverbank Room 1Eden Robertson • Kate Williams • Darcy Morris 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 1Eden Robertson • Madeleine Bing-Fish Weaving together - learnings from the field when working with diverse knowledges towards transformative practice Room E1Alison Reedy • Stephanie Harrison

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 2Jess Dart • Kate Williams Process tracing as an evaluation tool Room E1Graham Smith • Richard Bell Weaving greater equity into evaluation practice Room E2Kahiwa Sebire • Erin Blake Evaluating contribution from the ground up Riverbank Room 1Laura Manrique • Roxanne Bainbridge • Mathea Roorda • Dr Sara Lystlund Hemi Evaluator Competencies: Self-Assessment Room E3Amanda Jones • Amy Gullickson • Taimur Siddiqi Collaborating with people with lived experience in evaluation: a practical framework and perspectives Hall D (plenary)Allison Clarke • Jade Maloney • Alexandra Lorigan • Sharon Marra-Brown • Kirsty Rosie • Eila Lyon • Rosie Dale

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COVID-19 Vaccination - Integrating evaluation, continuous improvement and delivery during a one in one-hundred-year event Riverbank Room 2Jess Dart • Jo Norman "Social media as an evaluation listening and monitoring tool Case study: Instagram, Australian farming women, social media and climate change" Room E1Graham Smith • Amy Samson

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Collaborating on evaluation guidance: building the NSW government evaluation guidelines Room E3Amanda Jones • Danielle Spruyt Using evaluation to shine bright at the Starlight Children's Foundation Riverbank Room 2Jess Dart • Eden Robertson Zero Suicide Healthcare: program evaluation for improved suicide care and prevention Room E1Graham Smith • Alan Woodward Speed vs evidence: A digital evaluator's perspective Riverbank Room 1Laura Manrique • Anna Kean Comic-based digital storytelling: An innovative tool in the Evaluator's toolkit Room E2Kahiwa Sebire • Hilary Davis More than a self-licking ice cream Hall D (plenary)Allison Clarke • Donna Stephens • Sharon Babyack

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