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aes19 International Evaluation Conference

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Sean Chung

Paxton Partners
Director
Melbourne

Sean Chung is a Director of Paxton Partners, a specialist management consulting firm, focused exclusively on clients within the health and human services sectors. Sean has assisted clients across both Canada and Australia at multiple levels of the healthcare system - from federal government to local health services - to understand, evaluate, monitor and report on their performance.

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

Applying Systems Evaluation Theory C2.4Gill Westhorp • Brian Keogh • Ralph Renger • Lewis Atkinson

11:30am AEST

Contribution analysis: Evaluating the impact of intensive family services, applying theory in a real-world context. C2.5Squirrel Main • Jane Howard

12:00pm AEST

A trauma informed approach to capturing the voices of vulnerable children in Out-of-Home-Care evaluation C2.2Eleanor Williams • Dr. Suzanne Evas • Antoniette Bonaguro

1:30pm AEST

A Practical Application of a Realist Synthesis Method C2.5Ian Patrick • Jo Hall

2:00pm AEST

Frameworks for program evaluation: considerations on research, practice and institutions C2.5Ian Patrick • Ghislain Arbour

2:30pm AEST

Necessary components of a theory of change for system level interventions C2.5Ian Patrick • Nerida Rixon

2:40pm AEST

Using a template to collect interview notes for rapid upload and autocoding in NVivo C2.4Matt Healey • Carolyn Hooper

3:30pm AEST

Innovation in government program evaluation C2.5Sean Chung • Katherine Barnes • Angelina Bruno

4:00pm AEST

Knowing the value of knowledge: emerging approaches to evaluating research through end user perspectives. C2.5Sean Chung • Larissa Brisbane • Emily Prentice

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

12:05pm AEST

Alternate realities in evaluation: Possibilities for emerging tech in evaluation C2.4Anne Markiewicz • Matt Healey

12:10pm AEST

Collective impact evaluation in primary prevention of violence against women C2.4Anne Markiewicz • Louise Falconer

12:15pm AEST

Opening Up The Box: making evaluation useful to stakeholders C2.4Anne Markiewicz • Hwee Lee Seah

12:20pm AEST

Let's focus on the Big M and little e (Me) C2.4Anne Markiewicz • Damien Sweeney • Dave Green

1:30pm AEST

Lessons learned co-designing a program and its evaluation in an emerging policy landscape C2.5Andy Moore • Poppy Wise • Malcolm Haddon • Zainab Kadhim

2:00pm AEST

The retrospective development of a monitoring and evaluation framework for the Northern Territory chronic conditions prevention and management strategy: Unpacking the problems and possibilities C2.6Carolyn Hooper • James Smith • Jenny Summerville

2:30pm AEST

From impact evaluation to evaluating with impact: Trialling a new approach to increase uptake of evaluation results Pyrmont TheatreLee-Anne Molony • Kathryn Dinh • Peta Leeman

3:30pm AEST

Plenary 4: Gary VanLandingham "Evaluation in the age of evidence-informed policy-making -- opportunities, challenges and paths forward" Pyrmont TheatreGary VanLandingham

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

Front-end loading: The value of formative evaluation in setting program focus: a case study of the Australian Volunteers Program C2.6Kiri Parata • Keren Winterford • Farooq Dar • Anna Gero

11:00am AEST

Not champions, advocates! Supporting evaluation in non-profit organisations C2.5Anthea Rutter • Alison Rogers

11:05am AEST

Surprise! No one read your organisations annual corporate performance report. Now what? C2.6Kiri Parata • Brooke Edwards

11:10am AEST

He Whetū Arataki (Guiding Star) youth leadership programme evaluation C2.6Kiri Parata • Gill Potaka Osborne • Teresa Taylor

11:15am AEST

What's beyond the box: Learning from 'tribal' communities and encouraging community ownership of evaluation - a collaborative approach, building on translational research, using an implementation science evaluation... C2.6Kiri Parata • Robert Simpson

11:20am AEST

Design tips for visualising your data C2.6Kiri Parata • David Wakelin

11:30am AEST

A Primer on Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in Evaluation C2.4Natalie Fisher • Brad Astbury

11:35am AEST

The whole box and dice: economic evaluation trends and forecasts C2.6Kiri Parata • Mark Galvin • Alain Nader

11:40am AEST

Using e-diaries to collect evaluation data C2.6Kiri Parata • Carolyn Hooper

11:45am AEST

Lessons from the Dark Side: How Corporates do Client Experience C2.6Kiri Parata • Emily Verstege

12:00pm AEST

Evaluating system change: Exploring how project innovations transform business as usual C2.4Natalie Fisher • Julian King • Adrian Field

1:35pm AEST

Personality preferences - Implications for influencing evaluation design and utilisation C2.6Duncan Rintoul • Eve Barboza

1:40pm AEST

A live unboxing: The evaluation capacity building role C2.6Duncan Rintoul • Liam Downing

1:45pm AEST

Evolving from academic researcher to evaluator C2.6Duncan Rintoul • Natalia Krzyzaniak

1:50pm AEST

Getting past the imposter syndrome: you don't have to be an expert to help build evaluation capacity in your organisation. C2.6Duncan Rintoul • Margaret Moon

2:00pm AEST

The dance of evaluation: Engaging stakeholders to develop an evaluation framework across a highly diverse training organisation C2.6Duncan Rintoul • Racheal Norris • Linda Klein

2:30pm AEST

Operationalising systems-thinking approaches to evaluating health system innovations: The example of HealthPathways Sydney C2.6Duncan Rintoul • Carmen Huckel Schneider • Sarah Norris

3:00pm AEST

Closing plenary: Evaluation, un-boxed Pyrmont TheatreJade Maloney • Jane Davidson • David Fetterman • Gary VanLandingham • Kiri Parata • Gill Westhorp • Jo Farmer • Ben Barnes

My Chairs Sessions

3:30pm AEST

Innovation in government program evaluation C2.5Sean Chung • Katherine Barnes • Angelina Bruno

4:00pm AEST

Knowing the value of knowledge: emerging approaches to evaluating research through end user perspectives. C2.5Sean Chung • Larissa Brisbane • Emily Prentice