Editorial
| DOI | 10.1177/1035719X20909721 |
| Author | Bronwyn Rossingh,Liz Gould,Carol Quadrelli |
| Date | 01 March 2020 |
| Published date | 01 March 2020 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
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Evaluation Journal of Australasia
2020, Vol. 20(1) 3 –5
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Editorial
Bronwyn Rossingh, Carol Quadrelli
and Liz Gould
Welcome to our first issue for 2020.
The field of evaluation has a breadth and depth that keeps on developing and grow-
ing. We are seeing this in the papers submitted to the Evaluation Journal of Australasia
(EJA) and presentations arising at the Annual International Evaluation Conferences
convened by the Australian Evaluation Society (AES). The range of topics, systems,
methods, industries and disciplines that feed into the evaluation space reflects a diver-
sity that continues to add dimension and new horizons for the EJA as it receives the
fruits of this burgeoning field. While we experience the diversity of submissions to the
EJA, part of the role of an issue editor is to find a degree of commonality that bonds
the articles together to create an interesting issue. This is part of the challenge and the
privilege of being an editor in bringing an issue together.
With each and every article published in the EJA, there may be three or four review-
ers that have helped to polish and shape each article. Reviewers are the behind-the-
scene supporters who silently and diligently work away at improving the quality of
articles published in the EJA. The editorial team really appreciates the cooperative and
‘attention to detail’ work that reviewers perform to support the journal, some having
done this for many years and others fairly new to it. Our editorial team is always look-
ing at ways to improve the experience for authors and reviewers so that we honour
each person’s contribution towards providing a quality journal that grows its national
and international authorship and readership. This has been a continuous quality
improvement area of the EJA pipeline, particularly since moving over to SAGE.
In this issue, we have three very interesting articles, two practice articles and one
academic article. All three are quite different – one of the practice articles is based on
lessons learned while evaluating a clinical research centre using a systems approach.
The second practice article is based on lessons learned while evaluating an Aboriginal-
led early intervention programme using culturally responsive frameworks. The
academic article for this issue is based on developing a theory-driven understanding of
how policies drive systems using complexity theory and post-structural policy analysis.
In this article, an evaluation tool is produced for all stakeholders involved in the
complex system of boarding school interventions. There are common threads between
all three articles in that two of the articles are based on Aboriginal interventions; two
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