Pre-conference Professional Development Workshops
As part of its 2024 biennial conference, the EES is delighted to invite you to attend pre-conference professional development workshops. These acclaimed and popular one day sessions will take place on 23 & 24 September 2024. They are a unique opportunity for the evaluation community to gain knowledge and training from experienced facilitators on a range of topics.
Workshop tickets are available for purchase during the on-line registration process.
Please note that the number of tickets is limited. Therefore, tickets are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Monday, 23 September
Time: 8:30 - 17:00
PDW 1:
Causal Mapping with Simple Tools
Steve Powell, Fiona Remnant and Gabriele Caldas Cabral
Meeting room: Borgo 1
PDW 2:
Principles For a Practical Approach to Co-implementing Feminist Evaluation
Donna Podems
Meeting room: Borgo 2
PDW 3:
Walking in the Mist: Combining Complexity Concepts and Stories to Better Understand Impact
Connor McMullen, Helen Kuyper and Nora Murphy Johnson
Meeting room: Parco 1
PDW 4:
Presenting Data Effectively
Stephanie Evergreen
Meeting room: Parco 2
PDW 5:
Towards Systemic Evaluation as a Collaborative Praxis: A practical introduction to three principles applied to evaluation practice based on Systems Thinking in Practice
Barbara Schmidt-Abbey and Martin Reynolds
Meeting room: Marina 1
PDW 6:
Developmental Evaluation: New Directions and Applications
Michael Quinn Patton
Meeting room: Marina 2
PDW 7:
Applying Foresight Methods to Evaluation Practice
Annette Lenore Gardner and Kathleen Sullivan
Meeting room: Faro
PDW 8:
Elevating the Transformative Power of Evaluation through Collaborative Action, Thinking, and Practice with PIALA
Adinda Van Hemelrijck, Jeremy Holland, Nicola Giordano and Andre Ling
Meeting room: Squero
PDW 9:
Evaluation Theories in Action
Brad Astbury and Lucio Naccarella
Meeting room: Bastioni
PDW 10:
Hacking Artificial Intelligence: Unleashing and understanding its potential for evaluation
Silva Ferretti
Meeting room: Orologio
Tuesday, 24 September
Time: 8:30 - 17:00
PDW 11:
Courageous Conversations: Using ‘Good Medicine’ to Transform Evaluation
Nicole Bowman, Larry Bremner, Carolee Dodge Francis and Linda Lee
Meeting room: Bastioni
PDW 12:
Mastering Mixed Methods: Theory and Practice
Catherine Elkins
Meeting room: Marina 1
PDW 13:
Rapid Economic Evaluation to Maximise Reach and Impact of Program Implementation per Unit Spending
Lucian Lee and Federico Ercolano
Meeting room: Breakout 6
PDW 14:
Responding to Wicked Problems with Systemic Evaluation
Anne Stephens, Ellen Lewis and Jill Thomas
Meeting room: Borgo 2
PDW 15:
Beyond the Basics: Hands-on Training in Outcome Harvesting
Goele Scheers and Richard Smith
Meeting room: Parco 1
IMPORTANT: This is a course at intermediate level aimed at those with at least 1-4 years field experience with Outcome Harvesting.
Workshop Abstract
Facilitator Biography/Biographies
PDW 16:
Blooming Perspectives: Practical Insights from the Garden of Evaluation Approaches
Lyssa Becho, Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead and Daniela Schröter
Meeting room: Parco 2
PDW 17:
Getting to Valuing; Critical Systems Heuristics in Evaluation Practice
Bob Williams
Meeting room: Faro
PDW 18:
Harnessing Real-Time Evaluation to Navigate Complexity
Scott Chaplowe
Meeting room: Vecchia Pescheria
PDW 19:
Evaluation Of Climate Change and Development
Martin Noltze, Alexandra Köngeter and Sven Harten
Meeting room: Marina 2
PDW 20:
Harnessing earth observations and data science to evaluate Socio-environmental issues
Zélie Marçais, Raghavan Narayanan, Dominik Naeher and Maximilian Reinke
Meeting room: Breakout 7
PDW 21:
Contribution Analysis in Practice
Thomas Delahais and Virginie Besrest
Meeting room: Orologio