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aes19 International Evaluation Conference

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George Argyrous

Institute for Public Policy and Governance, UTS
Research and evaluation manager
Tower 1, 15 Broadway, Ultimo

https://uts.edu.au/staff/george.argyrous

9:00am AEST

Opening plenary: Welcome to Country, followed by Tracy Westerman "Without measurability there is no accountability. Why we are failing to gather evidence of what works" Pyrmont TheatreUncle Charles (Chicka) Madden • Tracy Westerman

11:00am AEST

Integrating Behavioural Insights into Evaluation C2.2Eleanor Williams • Georgia Marett • Jack Cassidy

11:30am AEST

Early insights from evaluating post-disaster community recovery C2.6Larissa Brisbane • Claire Grealy • Christina Bagot

12:00pm AEST

Unpacking the skills required for an evaluator - Learning from the past to prepare us for the future C2.3Sarah Renals • Anthea Rutter

9:00am AEST

Plenary 3: What’s beyond the box of program evaluation and what does this mean for us? Pyrmont TheatreEmily Verstege • Jacqueline (Jax) Wechsler • Jenny Riley • Jess Dart • Kate McKegg • Adrian Field

11:00am AEST

The challenges of establishing and growing an internal evaluation unit: Experiences from two large state government departments C2.6Florent Gomez • Eleanor Williams • Josephine Norman • Amanda Reeves Rubrics - a tool for unboxing evaluative reasoning Pyrmont TheatreRonelle Hutchinson • Julian King • Nan Wehipeihana • Judy Oakden • Kate McKegg • Adrian Field

12:00pm AEST

Internal Evaluation Capacity Building: Unpacking what works in a (very) large government department C2.6Florent Gomez • Liam Downing • Rydr Tracy

1:30pm AEST

"Catching the MEL bug": Using an evaluation needs assessment to unpack evaluation capacity C2.6Carolyn Hooper • Mark Planigale

9:00am AEST

Plenary 5: Jane Davidson "Unboxing the core like our lives depend on it – because they do" Pyrmont TheatreJane Davidson

10:30am AEST

Inside, outside, all around: Three perspectives on evaluation capacity building C2.1Kerrie Ikin • Stewart Muir • Alisha Heidenreich • Nerida Joss • Mandy Charman

11:30am AEST

Evaluation: What is the value in the box? Pyrmont TheatreGhislain Arbour • Laurence Denholm • Anthea McClintock • Lyn Alderman • Geoff Gallop • Nicholas Gruen • William Murphy • Simon Smith • Jonathan Wheaton

1:30pm AEST

Unboxing the Inquiry - the Independent Inquiry into the Australian Public Service and its implications for evaluation Pyrmont TheatreSusan Garner • John Stoney • Mary Welsh • Alexandra Ellinson • Andrew Hawkins

My Chairs Sessions

1:30pm AEST

Digital Disruption - the next industrial revolution is here. What does this all mean for evaluators? Pyrmont TheatreGeorge Argyrous • Jenny Riley • Kristi Mansfield • Reuben Stanton • Chris Newman • Jess Dart

2:30pm AEST

Machine-assisted qualitative analysis in Evaluation Pyrmont TheatreGeorge Argyrous • Georgia Marett • Jasper Odgers • David Wakelin