Strategic oversight and Advisory Board
An advisory board of sector and research professionals will provide governance, oversight and strategic advice in terms of the ethical and sustainable development of the organisation. The advisory board will ensure the company delivers on its commitments and works within the vision mission and values.
The advisory panel of research, academic and practitioner experts will provide practice advice to the board and collaborate on projects to ensure rigour and efficacy.
The managing director, who will be supported by an executive administrative officer, practice manager and communications advisor, will work with its auspicing partner, who will provide administrative support and hold regular monthly meetings with the director for a period of two years, until the organisation becomes a viable entity with a proven track record to operate on its own. Other partners, notably project steering committee members and sub-contractors will participate at the invitation of Centre for Multicultural Program Evaluation to contribute to the design and development of activities to be undertaken by the company.
Catherine Scarth
Catherine Scarth’s career has focussed on the design and implementation of innovative social programs and enterprises in Australia and the United Kingdom. She has achieved this through the creation of partnerships with government, employers and the community sector to deliver programs designed to increase the economic and social participation for newly arrived migrants and refugees.Ms Scarth is the Chief Executive Officer of AMES Australia, an organisation providing a wide range of interconnected settlement, education, vocational training and employment services in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Tasmania.
Ms Scarth is a member of the Settlement Services Advisory Council (SSAC) and a Board member of the Migration Council of Australia.
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Dr Irene Bouzo (PhD)
Dr Irene Bouzo (PhD) for The Centre for Multicultural Program EvaluationIrene has held leadership roles in multicultural policy, advocacy and language service provision with government and not for profit organisations in Victoria to improve the quality of life of people from culturally diverse backgrounds. She worked at Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, the peak body for ethnic and multicultural organisations, for 10 years and was the Executive Officer for several years. She was also an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher and held senior management roles at AMES. She is an Elder and Board member in the Temple Society Australia. Her doctorate (2008) from the University of New England (NSW) was in the areas of migration settlement, community building and transnational living. She has worked in culturally diverse aged care and was on the Board of the German-speaking Tabulam and Templer Homes for the Aged (TTHA). With a passion for social justice, Irene continues to be actively involved in supporting new and emerging communities and mentoring leaders in the culturally diverse sector.
Dr Irene Bouzo (PhD)
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Eva Sarr
Eva Sarr is the founder and Director of Centre for Multicultural Program Evaluation . Eva has worked as a monitoring and evaluation specialist for twelve years. Her work included large-scale complex system wide evaluations where change moves non-linearly and at a rapid pace; there are multiple stakeholders; outcome measures are developed as programs are designed and implemented; and evaluation literacy is variable.In her role as a monitoring and evaluation specialist, social scientist, program manager and communication for behaviour change specialist, Eva has co-designed formative and summative evaluations and program logics; and co-evaluated and implemented programs using quasi-experimental study designs and mixed methods.
She has lived and worked in Australia, Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Central, South and West Australia across Health Systems and Policy Research and Education having worked at the bi-lateral, multi-lateral, national and state levels. During this period, Eva has co-designed multiple program logics and evaluation plans for small, medium, large, simple, complicated and complex programs. She has also led the prototyping design, testing and implementation of programs, and has considerable experience in evaluation capacity building (ECB) with a number of international and Victorian state governments.
Her international experience brings a diverse range of skills in facilitation and pre-post training evaluations. One example is her work with the Global Fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Malaria partnership where she worked at the sub-regional level.
As an evaluator, her social justice values stem from her diverse cultural heritage, life and professional experiences. She is a sixth generation Scottish, Irish, African-Australian who was raised by a Muslim father and Catholic mother.
Eva’s passion lies in participatory approaches for programs and policies with a social justice view — ones that makes the world a fairer and more equitable place for all of us to live and prosper.
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Frank Piccolo
Frank Piccolo’s accounting and tax career has spanned over 20 years. He began his career with the ATO in Advising and Investigations before moving to a chartered firm where he stayed for seven years. In 1995, Frank started his own business, Frank Piccolo & Co. In 2012, he purchased Steve Dossis and Associates which has now grown into a successful boutique firm; PKD Partners Pty Ltd. Frank’s expertise extends to business reorganisations, tax planning and family business. His greatest achievements have been providing young accountants with a platform to launch their own successful careers, developing long term relationships with his clients to help them reach their financial and business goals. Frank holds a Bachelor of Business in Accounting from RMIT and is CPA qualified.
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David Roberts
David Roberts (MAsEval, BA.(Hons), QPR) is a self-employed consultant with over 35 years experience in evaluations. His evaluation experience encompasses a wide range of approaches and methods across diverse fields (e.g. health, education, counter-terrorism, project evaluations and organisational systems). In 2016, David was awarded the Ros Hurworth Prize for Best Conference Paper at the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) Conference in Perth, Australia.He is highly regarded in the evaluation profession and has held evaluation leadership positions in Australia and internationally. He is currently a Board member of the International Organization for Collaborative Outcome Management (IOCOM) and is on two AES committees.
From 2012 to 2014, David was President of the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES), a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) and a member of the Management Group of EvalPartners, an international collaboration of United Nations agencies, governments and evaluation societies. Other positions include Chair of the AES Awards Committee, Chair of the ACT Health Advisory Committee and Steering Committee, Hospital in the Home Evaluation, Canberra Hospital (1997-98)
David has training in Anthropology, Evaluation and Community Development. He has a Masters of Assessment and Evaluation. His thesis examined how cognitive structures inform and drive participant responses to elicitation (or projective) techniques. David has conducted workshops for over 30 years in areas such as Community Engagement, Participatory Research, Evaluation Design, Elicitation Techniques, Qualitative Methods and Program TheoryMAsEval, BA.(Hons), QPR) .
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Dr Donnel Briley (PhD)
Donnel Briley’s PhD is from Stanford University, where he also received a B.S. in mechanical engineering. In addition, he completed an M.B.A. at University of California, Berkeley and a post-graduate program in political economics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France. His research, which focuses primarily on the influence of culture and ethnicity on consumers’ judgments and decisions, has been published in top marketing and psychology journals, including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology and Social Cognition. In 2001, he won the award for best dissertation-base article in the Journal of Consumer Research.Donnel lived in North America, France and Hong Kong before coming to Sydney. He was on the faculty of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
Previously, Donnel was a management consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers, San Francisco, where he specialized in international strategy issues.
Editorial Board: Journal of Consumer Research (2008-present), Asian Journal of Social Psychology (2008-present)
Dr Donnel Briley (PhD)
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Professor Jennifer Greene
Jennifer C. Greene is a professor emerita of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BA in psychology from Wellesley College (1971) and her PhD in educational psychology from Stanford University (1976). Prior to Illinois, Greene held faculty positions at the University of Rhode Island and Cornell University. Greene’s work focuses on the intersection of social science methodology and social policy and aspires to be both methodologically innovative and socially responsible. Greene’s methodological research has concentrated on advancing qualitative and mixed methods approaches to social inquiry. In the field of evaluation, she has contributed both theoretical and practical scholarship in democratic and values-engaged approaches to evaluation.Greene’s evaluation scholarship is well anchored in her evaluation practice. From her early work evaluating local educational programs born in the Great Society era to numerous evaluations of NSF educational programs designed to enable all children to learn about STEM, Greene’s evaluation scholarship has been importantly grounded in her evaluation practice.
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Associate Professor Rebecca Wickes is a leading academic in the study of cohesion, resilience and migration. She is the Director for the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre and the Chair of Criminology at Monash University. Wickes’ research focuses on the community processes associated with social cohesion and inclusion. Dr Wickes is a lead investigator of the Australian Community Capacity Study, a multi-million, multi-site, longitudinal study of urban neighbourhoods. She is a quantitative analyst and has extensive experience working with state government, police, local councils, community stakeholders and community residents to better understand and resolve the concentration of social problems across a range of community contexts.
In addition to his academic leadership roles, he advises international organisations and governments on migration-related issues and provides commentary for global media outlets.
Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor of Language and Literacy Education in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, at the University of Melbourne, and a past president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He specialises in language policy studies, bilingualism and intercultural education and research and action on peace and conflict in multi-ethnic settings. He was author of the 1987 National Policy on Languages, recognised worldwide as the first multilingual policy in an English speaking society. He has been an invited consultant on solving language problems in education and in wider society in 25 countries since 1990 and led major language education writing teams and research for major international organisations in Europe and Asia, such as LUCIDE, a 12 country municipal level study of multilingualism for the European Commission. Since 2012 he has directed a multi-country project on language policy and social cohesion in conflict affected settings in SE Asia for UNICEF and conducted large scale policy workshops for high level policy officials across Asia, under the auspices of UNESCO. He has an extensive list of publications with a strong recent focus on social cohesion, peace and conflict mitigation in multi-ethnic settings.
Professor Greg Barton- Chair of Global Islamic Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.
Adjunct Research Fellow, Dr Sara Maher (Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre) is a specialist in post-settlement issues for African migrant women, including the relationship between low literacy and poverty, transnationalism and belonging. She is a Churchill Fellow, and her work is grounded in a previous career in the refugee settlement sector in Melbourne. Recently she has contributed to the State government’s African Communities Action Plan and the African Taskforce Implementation Plan
Sue Cant is a Social Accountability Adviser to World Vision International. Sue has more than 12 years experience working in international development on policy, technical advisory and evaluation in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. For the past 10 years she has specialised in social accountability approaches aimed at improving front-line health and education services. Sue provides technical advice to World Vision’s global social accountability approach, now used in 400 programs in 48 countries.
Viv McWaters has worked in communications, community education, participatory evaluation, social history and strategy development. She now specialises in facilitation and designs workshops, conferences and training programs that encourage others to go think laterally and make discoveries and breakthroughs.
Helen Marshall learned how to handle qualitative data under the supervision of Lyn Richards, a world-renowned qualitative research expert. Helen’s PhD study of voluntarily childless couples used interview data analysed on handwritten index cards. It was published as Not Having Children (OUP 1993). Lyn Richards is a co-creator of NVivo software, so once the program became publicly available it was a natural progression for Helen to move from index cards to NVivo. She is now a
Associate Professor Felicity Allen is a quantitative research specialist with expertise in multivariate and univariate statistical techniques; statistical methods for social research; and data collection and evaluation methods for program evaluation. She wrote Health Psychology and Behaviour in Australia (2010). She was a senior academic at Monash University and is currently Director of RADAC PL. She has worked with a range of clients including government, semi-government departments, the Department of Justice, the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Community Renewal Project Evaluation, and the Mildura East Aboriginal Community Profile Partnership. As a registered psychologist, she brings a strong emphasis on understanding the drivers of behaviour and the influence of different communities on the actions of individuals and their sense of identity. Particularly at Lake Tyers, the intervention to up skill and empower the community was successful.
Ismaela ABUBAKAR is an Information system Developer having worked with Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia as a senior data manager for 17 years and now with Liverpool School of tropical medicine, Liverpool, UK. Ismaela is expert in the following software systems: REDCap, OpenClinical, MS Access and VBA, STATA, SPSS, ODK and High chart. Ismalea designs and develops database across multiple devices, performs data analysis, creates Dashboard and reports.
Andrew is a specialist in strategic monitoring and evaluation, program logic and evaluation methodology. Andrew’s strength lies in delivering credible and useful evidence for decision-making. This springs from his commitment to understanding the needs of his clients, and the nature of evidence in complex systems, including the appropriate use of experimental, quasi-experimental, realist and other methods for testing program theory.
Brad has deep expertise in leading multidisciplinary teams, engaging stakeholders and combining multiple forms of evidence to improve both the quality and utility of evaluation. He has managed and conducted organisational reviews, needs assessments, process and impact studies and theory-driven evaluations across a wide range of policy areas for industry, government, community and not-for-profit clients.
Janice Brown offers both evaluator and social worker qualifications and capabilities. She has immense experience of policy development and program management for the Australian Government, and for State and Territory Governments. She has also worked extensively at the coalface as a child protection worker and youth worker. 
David Roberts (MAsEval, BA.(Hons), QPR) is a self-employed consultant with over 35 years experience in evaluations. His evaluation experience encompasses a wide range of approaches and methods across diverse fields (e.g. health, education, counter-terrorism, project evaluations and organisational systems). In 2016, David was awarded the Ros Hurworth Prize for Best Conference Paper at the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) Conference in Perth, Australia.
Kate McKegg Kate is one of the pre-eminent practitioners and trainers of Developmental Evaluation1 in the Southern Hemisphere. Kate has over 25 years’ experience in evaluation, research, organisational development, policy development, leadership and strategy. The focus of much of her evaluation work is the development of evaluation capacity, supporting government and non-government clients to build evaluation frameworks and systems. The Kinnect Group works at the cutting edge of evaluation practice and theory. They work in challenging spaces of complexity, innovation and ambiguity using complexity and systems thinking approaches, logic models, theory of change and outcome frameworks.