Editorial
| Author | Bronwyn Rossingh |
| Published date | 01 December 2018 |
| Date | 01 December 2018 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/1035719X18804397 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
https://doi.org/10.1177/1035719X18804397
Evaluation Journal of Australasia
2018, Vol. 18(4) 197 –200
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Editorial
Bronwyn Rossingh
We are very proud to present this December issue to round off another wonderful and
productive year for the Evaluation Journal of Australasia and its even wider member-
ship and readership as part of the SAGE partnership. This issue has important and
valuable contributions including a new feature titled ‘Evaluation Perspectives’. The
‘Evaluation Perspectives’ section will bring inspiring stories about one of our many
‘evaluation heroes’; a person who has contributed greatly to evaluation within the
Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) membership and broader.
We are very excited about this new feature and feel very proud to commence with
a conversation-styled interview with one of our most revered evaluators who sadly
passed away in 2012 – Ros Hurworth. Some of our readers were fortunate in knowing
her, some may be familiar with her work and some may have heard of the ‘Ros
Hurworth Prize’, awarded for the best conference paper at the annual International
Evaluation Conference conducted by the AES. Our appreciation to Anthea Rutter for
sharing this valuable interview to inaugurate this feature. For all evaluators thinking of
publishing a conference paper at future AES conferences – you need to read this inspir-
ing story about the ‘name behind the Ros Hurworth Prize’. So far there have been four
Winners of the Ros Hurworth Prize as follows:
2014: Stephen McGrail, ‘Rethinking the Roles of Evaluation in Learning How to Solve
“Wicked” Problems: The Case of Anticipatory Techniques Used to Support Climate Change
Mitigation and Adaptation’
2015: Liam Downing and Sue Rogan, ‘Evaluation as an Integrated Management Tool:
Embedding an Evaluator Into a Program’
2016: David Roberts: ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So: Eliciting Knowledge and the Role of
Schemata in Data Collection’
2018: David Morton and Brad Cook: ‘Evaluators and the Enhanced Commonwealth
Performance Framework’
We congratulate the authors of our most recent Ros Hurworth Prize winning paper
for 2018, by David Morton and Brad Cook. This paper was published in the September
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