Recent conference workshops

An introduction to theory-based randomised controlled trials

Beyond Box-Checking: Reflective Practice and Collaborative Deliberation for Socially Conscious Evaluation Work

Clearing the way for better evaluation - An introduction to practical ways of increasing credibility by identifying, managing and reducing error

Cultivating evaluation: Exploring an expanded garden of approaches for diverse contexts

Cultivating our bubble: Using developmental rubrics to enhance evaluation

Designing and using surveys in realist (and other theory based) evaluation

Evaluating place-based and system-wide approaches

Evaluation and action learning to support implementation

Evaluation and Philanthropy: Designing Funder Evaluations to Support Strategic Wayfinding

Evaluation and Value for Money - Shifting the locus of power to affected communities

Evaluation and value-for-money: An inter-disciplinary, participatory approach using evaluative reasoning and mixed methods

Getting below the surface: Qualitative methods in the evaluation context

Insights on Indigenous evaluation co-design in the Warlpiri Yitakimaninjaku, warrirninjaku, payirninjaku manu pina-jarrinjaku project

Introduction to evaluation: Core concepts and methods

Making it stick: Increasing the power of evaluation reports using easy-to-play principles, tools, tips and tricks

Mixed methods mastery: Practical approaches for evaluators

Navigating AI in Evaluation, from Basics to Advanced Applications

Planning impact evaluations of social policy: when to undertake, planning and avoiding common pitfalls

Practical approaches to evaluating impact without experiments: Contribution, analysis, process tracing and more 

Program logic and beyond: Whose is it and how do we engage with First Nations ways of learning, thinking and being?

Qualitative causal analysis and impact evaluation using the QuIP

Scaling Impact: New Ways to Plan, Manage, and Evaluate Scaling

Strong stories, strong outcomes: Narrative practice and strength based evaluation

Using behavioural science in evaluation

Using system dynamics for evaluations in complex systems

Wayfinding in Measurement, Evaluation and Learning - for New and Emerging Evaluators



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