Meet our sponsors
ARTD
ARTD is a medium-sized Australian-owned company that supports government agencies and not-for-profits to use evaluative thinking to design and refine action for the public good. We are collaborative, creative, and critical thinkers who deliver evaluations that are engaging, robust and impactful. From co-designed and lived experience led evaluations to causal inference and experimental designs, we have the technical expertise and experience to tailor to your specific needs. When you choose to work with ARTD, you tap into over 35 years of strategic evaluation experience across the policy spectrum and the wisdom and passion of our team.
Rooftop Social
Rooftop Social is a leading provider of evaluation, research, and facilitation services across Australia.
Our expertise includes:
- designing evaluation frameworks, systems, and tools
- building evaluation capacity through training and coaching
- facilitating participatory design for social innovation
Since 2013, our 'evidence for good' mission guides:
- who we partner with – government and for-purpose organisations
- our inclusive, flexible, and transparent approach
- our focus on education, justice, environment, health, and human services
- taking on projects where we make meaningful contributions to important causes
Our core team is based in NSW and Victoria, with a network of subject matter experts and colleagues nationwide.
Whereto | Ipsos
Whereto | Ipsos has provided high-quality social research and evaluation services and directional, effective advice to governments for over 20 years. We pride ourselves in taking our clients further — we don’t just deliver reports, we articulate ‘where to next’.
Our team has a strong commitment to social impact, collaborative learning, and trauma informed, culturally responsive and participatory evaluative approaches.
Our partnership with Ipsos Global Public Affairs brings to bear expertise working across government and the civil sector worldwide, addressing pressing complex policy challenges, and the full range of experimental design and economic evaluation services.
Grosvenor
At Grosvenor, we deliver program evaluation done right — rigorous on paper, practical in practice. Our independent, practical approach is led by experienced specialists who help teams clearly understand what’s working, what isn’t, and where to focus next.
We partner with you to develop fit-for-purpose frameworks and evaluation plans that define what success looks like and how to measure it so you can deliver with confidence. Beyond assessment, we focus on building lasting capability. Through tailored systems and learning supports, we strengthen performance and embed evidence-informed practice across organisations.
We are proud to sponsor the aes26 International Evaluation Conference and have supported this important event for many years. Our ongoing partnership with the evaluation community reflects our commitment to advancing better practice, sharing knowledge, and contributing to stronger outcomes across the public sector. We are honoured to support the Australian Evaluation Society because we genuinely want to help the evaluation community thrive. The result is evaluation that not only provides assurance, but drives better decisions, stronger programs, and improved outcomes for the communities you serve.
Bellberry
Driven by two key objectives, to protect the welfare of research participants and improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of research, Bellberry provides high-quality, time-efficient, and internationally accredited scientific and ethical review of research projects.
Established in 2004, Bellberry is Australia’s single largest reviewer of clinical research, providing specialist HREC oversight to approximately 40% of CTN registered clinical trials across all phases of clinical and device trials as well as for social and behavioural studies.
In 2024, Bellberry was honoured as the national winner of the Telstra Best of Business award for Championing Health highlighting its support of advancing research. Participant wellbeing is at the centre of all that Bellberry does. Unique within the research sector, Bellberry reinvests the surplus funds generated by the activities of its HRECs back into the Australian medical research community through philanthropy and education.
It is the only organisation in Australia to gain the “gold seal” of accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) for excellence and ethically sound processes in running HRECs.
Iris Ethics
Iris Ethics is Australia’s leading open-access Human Research Ethics Committee specialising in the review of projects spanning the evaluation, social research, and market research industries. The firm is grounded in an understanding of what is relevant for projects and methods in these industries, delivered by people who are actively involved in the research and evaluation community.
Our committee operates on an on-demand basis, and we incorporate you into the discussion process. This means we can give you a 10-business day turnaround for full committee Reviews, and 5 business day turnaround for lower risk applications. We also host a freely accessible resource library for the community to build collective capacity and to support our goal of empowering ethical practice.
Program Evaluation Services
Program Evaluation Services (PES) is a small consulting business based in Perth Western Australia run by Prof Rick Cummings. It provides evaluation services at state and national level as well as training in evaluative thinking, program logic, monitoring, and evaluation.
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