Conference fees for the AES conference in Wellington are pretty hefty for many evaluators, so anyone eligible may want to check out the following offer:
The Australasian Evaluation Society is pleased to invite emerging Indigenous evaluators from Australia and New Zealand and emerging evaluators from South East Asia and the Pacific to apply for financial assistance to support their attendance at the 2010 AES International Conference. The AES will provide support with applications on request. Requests should be received no later than 21 May 2010
Roger Maaka, an academic who has studied and advised on indigenous issues internationally.
Donna Mertens is past president of the American Evaluation Association and editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, as well as a professor at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.
Thomas Schwandt is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a member of a standing committee of the National Research Council of the US National Academies of Sciences.
Elliot Stern is Professor of Evaluation Research at Lancaster University and the current editor of Evaluation: the international journal of theory, research and practice.
Jane Davidson, formerly the Associate Director of the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, Jane now heads an evaluation consulting firm in Auckland, New Zealand.
