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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 16 December 2014 7:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Heather Gridley<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Call for proposals open for AES 2015 International Evaluation Conference<br>
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CALL FOR CONFERENCE PRESENTATION AND PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS</h2>
<p>Whatever your role, interest and experience in evaluation we invite you to submit a proposal for a conference presentation or pre-conference workshop and join us in Melbourne to debate, discuss, share knowledge and experiences, network and learn about what
is happening in evaluation, and evaluation-related fields, in the Australasian region and across the world.</p>
<p>The theme of 2015's Conference is <a href="http://www.aes.asn.au/index.php?subid=5254&option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=1162&mailid=588" style="color:#408080; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold" target="_blank">
<em><strong>Reaching across boundaries</strong></em></a>.</p>
<p>Evaluation spans the lines we draw between ourselves – across sectors, disciplines, organisations, cultures, political borders, layers of hierarchy. It has the power to integrate values horizontally (among peers) and vertically (across levels of authority).
Over the past several decades its use has moved from proving to improving, from measuring to mainstreaming, from education to all sectors and disciplines.</p>
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2015" style="margin-left:5px; margin-bottom:5px; float:right" height="117" width="150">The UN's designation of 2015 as the
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International Year of Evaluation</a> advocates and promotes evaluation and evidence-based policy making at international, regional, national and local levels. The AES 2015 International Evaluation Conference provides a platform to engage with that global dialogue.
Together we will use evaluation to bring together our values, hopes, thinking, skills, and experiences in pursuit of a better tomorrow.</p>
<p>We welcome proposals that speak to the diversity of contexts evaluators work in--arts and culture, corporate social responsibility, market research, community and workplace safety, education reform, health and wellbeing, Indigenous environments, international
development, natural resource management, organisational development, poverty, refugee assistance, and more.</p>
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<span style="color:#006699">Keynote speaker profile: Marlène Läubli Loud</span></h3>
<p style="font-size:11px"><img align="left" hspace="5" src="cid:867195a1479e328036df80a151b62026" alt="mloud" style="margin:0px 5px 5px 0px; float:left">Marlène Läubli Loud (DPhil) is currently an independent consultant and trainer in public sector evaluation.
She has over 25 years of experience in various aspects of private and public sector evaluation in the following fields; small-to-medium enterprises, higher education, youth unemployment, public health, environmental health, community services and impact of
communication and information technology on society.</p>
<p style="font-size:11px">Marlène has worked in several countries including Algeria, Switzerland, the UK, and Italy. She was also part-time Director of the European Office of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War—winner of the 1985 Nobel
Peace Prize.</p>
<p style="font-size:11px">Projects that she is currently working on or has recently completed include: developing competency framework for professional evaluation management; evaluation of cantonal information system for coordinating placements in Medicalised
Homes, training in strategies and measures for capacity building in organisations. Marlène is co-editor of the book
<em>Enhancing evaluation use: Insights from internal evaluation units</em> together with John Mayne (SAGE,2014).</p>
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<p>The conference will be held in Melbourne Australia from 7 to 9 September 2015 at the
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Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre</a>, South Wharf. The conference will be preceded by two days of pre-conference workshops on 5 and 6 September at
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The University of Melbourne</a>, Parkville.</p>
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Proposal submission deadline</h3>
<p>The deadline to submit conference presentation proposals and pre-conference workshop proposals is
<strong>6 March 2015</strong>.</p>
<p>We invite you to <a href="http://www.aes.asn.au/index.php?subid=5254&option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=1165&mailid=588" style="color:#408080; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold" target="_blank">
submit a proposal</a> for delivering a presentation at the conference and/or pre-conference workshop. For more information about the conference and the submission process, go to
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http://conference2015.aes.asn.au/</a></p>
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Interested in reviewing conference and workshop proposals?</h3>
<p>We are seeking your assistance to review the conference and pre-conference workshop proposals. The call for proposals closes on 6 March 2015. The Program Committee is looking to allocate proposals for review in early April 2015. The deadline for the review
process is 4 May 2015.</p>
<p>This year's conference proposals review will be a double-blind process. This means that author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The review process is fully automated and anonymous. You will be provided
with instructions to guide your review and an online assessment form which will need to be completed. We will also be offering Reviewers Training webinars from 20 to 27 March 2015. Reviewer's names will be published in the conference abstract book. If you
are interested, please <a href="http://www.aes.asn.au/index.php?subid=5254&option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=1167&mailid=588" style="color:#408080; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold" target="_blank">
register here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Early bird conference registrations open 29 January 2015.</strong></p>
<p><em>Anthea Rutter</em><br>
Conference Program Committee Chair</p>
<p><em>Janet Clinton</em><br>
Conference Convenor</p>
<p><em>Bill Wallace</em><br>
Conference Director</p>
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