Evaluator Perspective
| Author | Anthea Rutter |
| DOI | 10.1177/1035719X21999573 |
| Published date | 01 March 2021 |
| Date | 01 March 2021 |
| Subject Matter | Evaluator Perspective |
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Evaluation Journal of Australasia
2021, Vol. 21(1) 54 –57
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Evaluator Perspective
Anthea Rutter
Anthea Rutter has an incredible background in evalua-
tion, working with many other like-minded and high-
profile evaluators over many years helping to shape the
evaluation landscape in Australia. Anthea is a fellow of
the AES and is a committed and dedicated person who
works tirelessly and is always willing to help others.
She is an Investigator in the Centre for Programme
Evaluation at the University of Melbourne and has
extensive experience working with a wide range of
community and national organisations. She is particu-
larly knowledgeable and experienced in social research including education, mental
health, police and military, emergency management and social welfare projects.
Anthea’s current projects include an evaluation of Club Respect for Victorian
Women’s Trust, the evaluation of Community Grants Programme for Melbourne
Disability Institute and the evaluation of VicHealth’s Arts Strategy.
How did you become involved in evaluation?
I think my experience would be similar to a lot of professionals in the evaluation
world. I did not have a light bulb moment and say, ‘I must be an evaluator’, but
rather slipped into it because of demands in the job world. I guess to pinpoint it,
my decision to move into evaluation came through a contact with Jerry Winston,
one of our Australian Evaluation Society (AES) Fellows. It was during my time at
Box Hill College of TAFE, around 1984/1985. I was asked to put together a
research project which involved evaluation. Jerry was doing some work for Box
Hill and we got talking about evaluation. So that was my entry into the field. I then
heard about Anona Armstrong who at that stage was running the AES out of her
own pocket and good will. I went to one of the first AES conferences and enjoyed
it and realised that I needed to know more! This was around the time when the
AES was officially formed, and I became a founding member. Again, like a lot of
evaluators, my career path has moved in and out of evaluation depending upon the
demands of a particular job.
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