Speaker: Professor Janet Clinton
Professor Janet Clinton is the Director of the Centre for Program Evaluation and Director of the Teacher and Teaching Effectiveness Research Hub, at the University of Melbourne. She has wide national and international experience as an evaluator and educator, and has an extensive publication record. She teaches a number of post-graduate subjects and supervises a number of PhD students in the discipline of evaluation.

Janet has worked in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, and has been a principal investigator on many large complex evaluations and research projects. Overall, she has led over 100 national and international projects across multiple disciplines, in particular health and education. Her major interest in evaluation is the development of evaluation theory and methodologies. Her current evaluation work focuses on development of evaluation frameworks, measurement and implementation as well as using evaluation as a vehicle for change management and building capacity.

‘Becoming system architects’

The presentation will encompass

• leadership and big data
• thinking evaluatively
• architectural understanding
• evidence-informed
• learning system