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.

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Please note that the number of tickets is limited. Therefore, tickets are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Monday, 23 September

Time: 9:00 - 17:00 (subject to change)

Workshop 1:
Causal Mapping with Simple Tools
Steve Powell, Fiona Remnant and Gabriele Caldas Cabral

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 2:
Principles For a Practical Approach to Co-implementing Feminist Evaluation
Donna Podems

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 3:
Walking in the Mist: Combining Complexity Concepts and Stories to Better Understand Impact
Connor McMullen, Helen Kuyper and Nora Murphy Johnson

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 4:
Presenting Data Effectively
Stephanie Evergreen

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 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

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 6:
Developmental Evaluation: New Directions and Applications
Michael Quinn Patton

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 7:
Applying Foresight Methods to Evaluation Practice
Annette Lenore Gardner and Kathleen Sullivan

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 8:
Elevating the Transformative Power of Evaluation through Collaborative Action, Thinking, and Practice with PIALA
Adinda Van Hemelrijck, Jeremy Holland, Nicola Giordano, Verena Dolabella and Eva Wuyts

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 9:
Evaluation Theories in Action
Brad Astbury and Lucio Naccarella

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 10:
Hacking Artificial Intelligence: Unleashing and understanding its potential for evaluation
Silva Ferretti

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Tuesday, 24 September

Time: 9:00 - 17:00 (subject to change)

 Workshop 11:
Courageous Conversations: Using ‘Good Medicine’ to Transform Evaluation
Nicole Bowman, Larry Bremner, Carolee Dodge Francis and Linda Lee

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 12:
Mastering Mixed Methods: Theory and Practice
Catherine Elkins

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 13:
Rapid Economic Evaluation to Maximise Reach and Impact of Program Implementation per Unit Spending
Lucian Lee and Federico Ercolano

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 14:
Responding to Wicked Problems with Systemic Evaluation
Anne Stephens, Ellen Lewis, Jill Thomas and Juanita Bernal

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 15:
Beyond the Basics: Hands-on Training in Outcome Harvesting
Goele Scheers and Richard Smith

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 16:
Blooming Perspectives: Practical Insights from the Garden of Evaluation Approaches
Lyssa Becho, Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead and Daniela Schröter

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 17:
Getting to Valuing; Critical Systems Heuristics in Evaluation Practice
Bob Williams

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 18:
Harnessing Real-Time Evaluation to Navigate Complexity
Scott Chaplowe

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 19:
Evaluation Of Climate Change and Development
Martin Noltze, Alexandra Köngeter and Sven Harten

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 20:
Harnessing earth observations and data science to evaluate Socio-environmental issues
Zélie Marçais, Raghavan Narayanan, Dominik Naeher and Alexander Stepanov

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies

Workshop 21:
Contribution Analysis in Practice
Thomas Delahais and Virginie Besrest

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Facilitator Biography/Biographies