Day 2 Agenda

8:30 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND NETWORKING

9:00 WELCOMING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR
Bradley Smith
Executive Director
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FAST)

9:10 SPECIAL ADDRESS: THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR EBP
• advice in assisting the formulation of EBP directed at national needs
• The role of economic modelling as “evidence”
• Stakeholder engagement as a method for obtaining evidence
• The role of risk perceptions in assessing evidence
 Blair Comley
Deputy Secretary
Department of Climate Change

9:50 SPECIAL ADDRESS: DRIVING PARTICIPATION AND PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH EBP
• Utilising evidence to influence priorities in policy making
 • How measurement of outcomes can contribute to education policy
 • An overview of Victoria’s strategic policy framework
 • Illustrating how the COAG Productivity Agenda Working Group has developed its own outcomes framework
 • Looking at how data can drive performance
Professor Peter Dawkins
Secretary
Dr Sara Glover
General Manager
Data Outcomes and Evaluation
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, VIC

10:30 MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING

DEVELOPING AN EVIDENCE BASED CULTURE

11:00 AN EVALUATION OF THE UK GOVERNMENT’S USE OF EBP: IMPLICATIONS FOR AUSTRALIA
• An overview of successful evidence based policies
 • Challenges in implementation across diverse departments
 • Assessing key learnings
Emeritus Professor Meredith Edwards
Faculty of Business and Government
University of Canberra

11:40 EBP AND THE GOVERNANCE OF SCIENCE
• Being right is never enough – the competing rationalities of science, politics and policy
 • Getting beyond multi-disciplinary research to thinking about how science operates in co-evolving complex political ‘landscapes’
 • Are informal governance of science structures, such as professional societies and peer networks, sufficiently robust and agile enough to anticipate and respond to demands for evidence-based policy?
Bradley Smith
Executive Director
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FAST)

12:20 LUNCH

1:20 CREATING THE FRAMEWORK FOR AN EVIDENCE BASED ENVIRONMENT: DEVELOPING CAPACITY WITHIN AN ORGANISATION
• Defining the differing roles and responsibilities of staff
 • Ensuring accountability with each stage of the standards development process
 • Achieving effective re-allocation of resources
Steve McCutcheon
Chief Executive Officer
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand Canberra

2:00 CASE STUDY: EBP AND PRACTICE IN A SOCIAL POLICY CONTEXT
• An overview of DOCS ‘Research to Practice’ program
• An exploration of the barriers and facilitators to the uptake of research
• Building an organisational culture that recognises research as a source of innovation in service delivery
Peter Walsh
Director, Research and Evaluation
Department of Community Services, NSW

2:40 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

IMPROVING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN POLICY MAKERS AND EVIDENCE PROVIDERS 

3:10 DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN RESEARCHERS AND POLICY MAKERS
• Identifying the elements necessary for an effective partnership
• Finding the right researchers
• Putting together the most effective teams
• Balancing short term issues with longer term strategy
Professor Margaret Sheil
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Research Council

3:50 EVIDENCE BASED DEVELOPMENT OF POLICY FOR MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
• Major findings of key reviews in the field of mathematics education
• Using this evidence in policy development
• Meeting the challenges through strategic planning
Gaye Williams
Vice President (Development)
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia ‑ MERGA

4:30 CLOSING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR