Director of the Centre for Program Evaluation (CPE) and CPE/Curriculum & Humanities Cluster Leader, Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

Austalasian Evaluation Society
American Evaluation Association
Association for Qualitative Research

B.A. (Jt Hons.) (Univ Wales, Swansea), Post Grad. Cert. Ed. (Nottingham), M.Ed., Post Grad. Dip. Sociology (Research and Survey Methods) (LaTrobe) Ph.D. LaTrobe University).

Post Graduate Certificate in Assessment and Evaluation; Research Methods, Evaluation Project.

Master of Assessment and Evaluation; Evaluation for Management and Development.

Research Methods in Education (for M.Ed. and D.Ed. students): Qualitative Methods.

In relation to contracted evaluation and research I have led, taken responsibility for, or made a major contribution to over a 100 local, state and national projects. Major work in the last 15 years includes:
•Evaluation of the Schools TAFE Integrated Program (STIP) for Moorabbin College of TAFE
•Evaluation of the Girls, Maths and Science Teaching Project (GAMAST); for the Commonwealth Schools Commission
•Evaluation of a Pre-Pregnancy Program at Richmond Community Health Centre
•Review of current food regulation and law in Victoria; for the Victorian Government Regulation Review Unit
•Evaluation of the Coordinated Areas Program (CAPS); for the Ministry of Education
•Evaluation of the introduction of notebook computers to Grade 5 children at Wesley College
•Evaluation of the use of interactive video on 21 educational sites in Britain
•A Statewide evaluation of the Cervical Cancer screening program.

Details of books, reports, journal articles, conference papers and annotated bibliographies can be found at
http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/cpe/publications/

Successful tenders for various projects include:

In Education
•An Evaluation of Collingwood College’s Kitchen Garden
•An Evaluation of Collingwood College’s LOTE Program
•A study of the effectiveness of kindergarten for three year olds for School of Early Childhood Studies
•Consultant to the Ministry of Education's Inclusive Schooling Integration Program
•Evaluation of the Victorian Industry Education Partnerships Forum; for DEET
•The Active Seniors Project in Victoria for the Dept Sport and Recreation and Adult, Community and Further Education Board
•A synthesis of current knowledge of older people and education; for the Australian Association of Adult and Community Education (AAACE) and the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA)
•Health data needs of health planners
•An action research project concerning the teaching of evidence-based medicine
•The accommodation and clusters (ACO) project regarding the University of the 3rd Age for the Adult Community and Further Education Board and Dept. Human Services, Positive Ageing
•Evaluation of best practice in Clusters-- for ACFE
•Evaluation of a University Honours Program for Swinburne University of Technology
•Studies of why there are declining enrolments in some State Schools
•An evaluation of a school kitchen garden.

In Mental Health
•Evaluation of the State’s Primary Mental Health Teams
•Leading the evaluation of the State’s Primary Mental Health Teams
•Acting as a consultant for the evaluation of ORYGEN’s Compass Strategy
•Assessing the training needs regarding mental health management of young people by non-clinicians—for ORYGEN
•A study of understanding barriers to seeking help for psychosis among the young people of Melbourne’s NW suburbs: for EPPIC
•Management of the National Early Psychosis Project; for EPPIC
•Evaluation of the Spectrum Borderline Personality Disorder Unit training and consultation program
•Evaluation of a CD Rom for use by clinicians with psychotic patients

In Health
•Evaluation of Swinburne’s Intersectoral Programs
•Statewide study of Early Childhood Curriculum Statement
•Evaluation of Banyule/Nillumbik Hypertension Program
•Evaluation of St Vincent’s Lymphodoema Services
•Evaluation of a pilot program for State Enrolled Nurses; for the Melbourne School for Enrolled Nurses and the Health Department of Victoria.
•Evaluation of the Healthy Localities Project, for the National Centre for Health Program Evaluation
•Evaluation of the Healthy Heart Project in rural Victoria, Shepparton and Mildura
•Evaluation of a post acute maternity service for Cambodian mothers
•Evaluation of the Hospital in the Home Program for the Royal Melbourne Hospital
•Focus group studies: Food Science Aust. and various Divisions of General Practice
•A needs assessment of education related to the management of patients with mental illness for Divisions of General Practice, Victoria.
•Development of a strategic plan for a Division of General Practice
•Evaluation of an asthma planning toolkit for Asthma Victoria
•Evaluation of the Working Women’s Health program for CALD women
•Evaluation of the St. Vincent Hospital’s ALERT program
•Evaluation of a PCP program concerning Hypertension
•A needs assessment regarding genetics education for GPs for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Other Areas
•An Evaluation of the Australian Institute of Sport’s KPIs
•An Evaluation of Water Catchment Management in the Mallee
•An Evaluation of the Level D Program for Women
•Development of a Proactive Evaluation Framework
•An evaluation of the Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference, using photographs as a major source of data.
•Evaluation of the Overseas Services Bureau returning home procedures for Australian Volunteers.
•Development of best practice performance indicators for Reference Librarians
•Improvements in training programs for the ANZ Bank
•A needs assessment regarding training programs for the Australian Emergency Management Institute
•Evaluation of trials of a booklet and information kiosk for Australia Post
•Evaluation of water conservation in the Mallee
•Key performance indicators for the Australian Institute of Sport