anzea board members
Jo Adams
Associate portfolio - Branch development
I have been working as a public health researcher specialising in evaluation in various ways since I left the Com. Psych. Programme at Waikato
University in 1987. I cut my teeth on a formative evaluation based in a community development health promotion project (the North Shore Community
Health Network/Raeburn House). I have worked on numerous projects in Aotearoa including the evaluation of the early days of the Cervical Screening
Programme, sexual health promotion and HIV/AIDS prevention programmes, and treatments for low back pain. Since 2003 I have been based at AUT
University, working on an evaluation of the response of our health system to family violence, on contract to the Ministry of Health. I live on Waiheke
Island where I have a part time Body Work (Structural Integration) practice.
Will Allen
IT development portfolio
Associate portfolio - Branch development
Kia ora tatou. I am a participatory research specialist with more than15 years experience in natural resource management. I work for Manaaki Whenua -
Landcare Research, where I lead a social research group looking at ways of encouraging learning-based management approaches in organisations and
communities. I am particularly interested in how participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E), and knowledge management tools can help this. I also
have experience in public relations and the use of the Internet to support social networking. More information on my work and background can be found
from our Collaborative Learning for Environmental Management web pages http://social.landcareresearch.co.nz,and my own NRM-changelinks portal on
participation and change http://nrm-changelinks.net .I appreciate the opportunity that I have been given as an ANZEA Board member to contribute to
the development of evaluation in Aotearoa.
Jane Carroll
Communications portfolio
For the past three years I have been working with the Education Review Office evaluating the quality of education of schools and early childhood centres. Prior to this I taught for twenty years in both the primary and secondary sectors. I was a member of Auckland Evaluation Group for two years and have recently joined the anzea Branch Committee. I've enjoyed working with the team to arrange professional development events and to promote links between the different evaluation agencies represented in our Auckland membership. I enjoy meeting practitioners in the wider field of evaluation and learning about their methodology and work.
My study in the Post Graduate Diploma of Evaluation (Massey University) has broadened my theoretical and methodological understanding of evaluation. The literature has reinforced my belief that institutions benefit more from external evaluation if they have effective internal review. My professional mission is to foster evaluative thinking amongst the schools and centres we work with. What interests me in my work is that although each review is conducted using standard procedures and methodology schools are uniquely different. Their operation is driven within a context influenced by society, politics, ideology and culture.
'Innovation is a common experience shared by many and yet felt to be unique every time it happens.' Saville Kushner (2000, p.80)
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Conferences portfolio
Director - Evaluation Team, Research New Zealand.
I am an evaluation practitioner working in private practice in Wellington. I work with a small team of evaluators based within a large research agency. I
have worked on the ‘provider’ side of evaluation at Research New Zealand (previously BRC Marketing & Social Research) since the mid 1990s. For more
than fifteen years now I have worked in social research, with a sole focus on evaluation for the past nine years. As an evaluation practitioner I tend to
focus on evaluating of new initiatives, pilot programmes, and national strategies for the health, education and social sectors in New Zealand. For almost
all our evaluation projects we bring together a team of people of different ethnic groups and different disciplines from several organisations.
I have been involved in the evaluation community for a number of years primarily through networks the WEG, AES, and the national conferences at Tauhara. I am excited to be involved in anzea through being elected on to the new board. I see anzea as having an important role in further strengthening networks of people and organisations which will promote quality ‘New Zealand-style’ evaluation practice.
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Branch development portfolio
Associate portfolio - Māori evaluation development
Ngā mihinui kia koutou (Waikato, Maniapoto – Tainui). For the past three years I have been working in public health evaluation for the Waikato District
Health Board (Population Health Service) and prior to that worked in education at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa for two years. I have a Post Graduate
Diploma in Community Psychology and a Masters in Social Sciences from the University of Waikato. Over recent years I have led the co-ordination of
the Waikato Evaluation Group which has just devolved to become the newly established Waikato Bay of Plenty branch of anzea. My portfolio for the
anzea board is branch development and I am excited to be able to contribute to a dynamic and forward thinking evaluation association for Aotearoa.
My interests lie in the sharing of evaluation knowledge and skills, and working collaboratively across sectors and levels that can positively influence
public health. Māori evaluation capacity, capability, and development is a strong interest that I wish to continue to be involved in.
Heather Lees
Professional Development
portfolio
Heather Lees is the Research & Development Manager for the Electrotechnology Industry Training Organisation (ETITO) in New Zealand. She has a PhD in Human Resource Management. In her work Heather has consulted and facilitated training and development in a wide range of vocational areas, and brings experience from previous work in the UK and Asia.
Kate McKegg
Deputy Convenor; Strategic relationship development portfolio
Kia ora tatou. I feel very honoured to be elected a founding member of the anzea board. It is particularly exciting to me to have the opportunity to work with and
alongside the experience and expertise that the other board members and membership bring to this brand new organisation.
I have been working in the field of evaluation for the past 15 years. I have a Masters of Social Policy from Massey University and am a PhD candidate with Victoria University. Until 2002, my evaluation experience was as an evaluator, and a manager of evaluation in the public sector. Since 2002, I have run my own evaluation consultancy. In 2003, I co-edited New Zealand’s first evaluation text, Evaluating Policy and Practice, a New Zealand Reader. In 2004, I began teaching Monitoring and Evaluation at Victoria University, in the Masters of Public Management and Masters of Applied Public Policy. And this year, I will also be teaching a Masters paper in evaluation for Massey University, at the Albany campus.
It is my hope that anzea will be the catalyst for raising the bar in terms of evaluation capacity and capability in New Zealand. I am particularly interested in ensuring that here in Aotearoa/New Zealand we boldly and confidently build evaluation theory and practice that has a spirit and core that is uniquely ours.
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Convenor; Communications portfolio
Associate portfolios – Strategic planning and policy development Conferences; Special Projects
Kia ora tatou. It’s an honour for me to have been elected to this role for the first two years of anzea's development, and a fantastic challenge. I’m also
privileged to be working with a highly talented and dedicated new Board, as well as with energetic Branch Committee members. I have been working in
evaluation for the past 15 years, the last 10 as an independent evaluator/researcher. Before that I worked in tertiary education and research, teaching
in both undergraduate and graduate programmes sequentially at the Universities of Massey, Auckland and Waikato. In the 1970s and 80s I had 15 years
in frontline social services work in both Aotearoa and Far North Queensland, in areas of child and family welfare, mental health, corrections and
disability. My formal qualifications are in psychology and law (and more recently in cameleering). I have a particular interest in evaluation ethics, safety
and accountability, and in developing new evaluation models relevant to Aotearoa.
I see anzea’s development as being essentially about self-determination for Aotearoa New Zealand evaluation. I believe that it’s important that the next stage of anzea development use evaluation’s own effective practice principles – consultation, sound strategic planning and logic modelling, an outcomes focus, strategic links with other associations and agencies – to ensure that over the next two years anzea provides its members with evidence of the association’s value and good reasons to keep on belonging. My personal priorities are for anzea to be developing some really accessible professional support services for evaluation practitioners, and growing national evaluation conferences to meet the needs of a wider audience.
TopLaurie Porima
Māori evaluation development portfolio
He hōnore he korōria ki te atua. He maungarongo ki te whēnua. He whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa. Tihei mauri ora.
Ki to tātou atua, to tatou kaiwhakaora kei runga ra, he mihi kau atu ki a koe, kei te mihi. Ki o tātou aitua kua mene ki te po, moe mai ra, whakahoki atu
ra. Huri noa, huri noa ki a tātou, te hunga ora, kua mahue nei, tena tātou katoa.
My tribal affiliations are Ngati Hikairo, Tainui on my father’s side and Ngati Manawa, Ngai Tuhoe and Ngā Puhi on my mother’s side. I am an independent Research and Evaluation specialist working primarily in the field of social science research and evaluation. I have been working in the area of evaluation for the past six years. Before that I worked for a number of government agencies including: The Ministry of Defence, Housing Corporation New Zealand, The Department of Justice and then its successor The Department of Corrections. My particular interests are in helping develop evaluation capacity not only with individuals but also with organisations private and public. I believe that anzea can be but one of the vehicles to increase, improve and maintain evaluation capacity and capability globally. Naku noa nei.
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Treasurer; Pacific evaluation development
Associate portfolios - Resourcing and Funding; Conferences
Talofa Lava, Malo e Lelei, Kia Orana, Fakalofa lahi atu, Taloha Ni, Ni sa Bula.
I have a Private Sector background in Market Research and Business Development. I have my own consultancy firm and my clients are all government
agencies who span the Health, Business Development, Education, Social Services, Aid and Trade sectors. My consultancy focus is on Strategy Analysis
and Development, High Impact Program Design and Organisational Strengthening. My consultancy experience has covered contracts in social
marketing, strategic planning, outcomes frameworks and strengthening organisations. I have a particular focus on Pasifika communities both in New
Zealand and the Pacific Region and development sector evaluation. My other areas of interest are in learning partnerships and developing agency
specific models and frameworks for analysis.
I see my contribution to anzea will be made by using my business background and national and international networks to both inform and support the associations capacity to increase its 'visibility, accessibility and leadership' of a true Aotearoa-New Zealand style of evaluation, which is steeped in community development with strong social inclusion values. Aotearoa New Zealand evaluation has a contribution to make to the global evaluation community and should be of interest of all evaluators who see their roles as ultimately 'improving people's lives'. I believe anzea has a role to play in bringing greater understanding of enabling active participation in any social and economic change process through appropriate methodologies in order to achieve the desired sustainable impact. My role as a Pacific person is to help the association to build stronger bridges into the Pacific communities that reside in Aotearoa New Zealand and across the Pacific in order to support the growth of an evaluation culture and to build evaluation capacity.
TopRachael Trotman
Secretary and Membership Secretary
Kia ora tatou, greetings to all
Based in Auckland, I am currently self-employed as a consultant, specialising in qualitative research, evaluation, strategic planning and policy
development that supports a sustainable development agenda. My academic background includes a Masters (Hons) in Sociology (1992) and a Post
Grad Diploma in Human Ecology (2004, Edinburgh). I have a strong local government background and I am employed by a range of local authorities,
NGOs and central government departments. I have a particular interest in reviewing what we value and measure as a society (see for example the
Genuine Progress Index), in how evaluation can support a more sustainable future, and in participatory evaluation approaches.
I am interested in how anzea can influence what we measure, including the development of strong indicators of our health and sustainability as a nation. This is an exciting and vibrant organisation with huge expertise within its rapidly growing membership. I look forward to meeting all of our members and working with you to effect real and lasting change.
TopMelissa Weenink
Professional Development
portfolio
Melissa Weenink works as Principal Research and Evaluation Analyst in the Ministry of Education, within the Research Division. She is responsible for leading the implementation of the Ministry of Education's Evaluation Strategy - a strategy focused on building evaluation capability and quality within the organisation. Melissa has worked public sector research and evaluation for nearly 15 years, in the social policy, health, and education fields. She is the Ministry of Education's representative on the Social Policy Evaluation and Research (SPEAR) Committee. She is a member of the American Evaluation Association, the Canadian Evaluation Society, and the Australasian Evaluation Society. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Victoria University of Wellington.
Tania Haerekiterā Wolfgramm
Māori & Pacific evaluation development
Associate portfolios - Resourcing and Funding; Website development
E ngā reo, e ngā mana, e ngā iwi o te motu, otirā ki ngā hau e whā, tēnā koutou. Tēnei te mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa. Tihei mauri ora. Malo e lava mai. Warm greetings to you all.
I am privileged to be part of this visionary, exciting, multi-cultural, and multi-talented anzea team. I am passionate about and have expertise in action
research, evaluation and consultation across the fields of health and wellness, education, justice, arts and tourism, language and identity, and
socio-economic development. I synergise evaluation processes that value, respect and uphold the spirit and wellbeing of all persons involved and
affected by the evaluation project. My academic degrees span psychology, sociology, criminology, philosophy and law. My current projects, the design
and development of transformative solutions utilising both traditional and contemporary technologies (Pou Kapua – the largest Māori/Pacific carving in
the world; and the Hakamana Māori Keyboard) manifest my research interests and innovative evaluation methodologies in (re)establishing unique
expressions of identity and models sustainable self-determination.
I believe that anzea will provide strong leadership, vision and direction in the field of evaluation. Acknowledging and harnessing the expertise and skills of our people, we will work hard to build evaluation skills and capacity within our whānau, groups, communities and organisations in Aotearoa, the Pacific and internationally, to support their aims and aspirations for a healthy, prosperous, and vibrant future.
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