I'm a current ANZEA Board Member and member of the Professional Development sub-committee.

I have worked in public health since 1994 across research, policy, education, evaluation and advocacy. I am a Senior Lecturer at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland where I teach a postgraduate one semester course in Programme Evaluation. I also work as Senior Advisor and Planner, Research and Evaluation for the Auckland Regional Public Health Service, although most of the last 2 years has been work on the response to COVID-19!

Dr Emma Fergusson (MNZPI) joined the ANZEA Board in 2022.

Emma has a keen appreciation of the challenges facing evaluators working in political/politicised contexts, having worked in both central and local government, and as a member of the Cross-agency Research and Evaluation Managers forum. She believes that persistently inquiring into what works (and what doesn’t!) across all kinds of social, environmental and economic policies is an ethical imperative.

Emma has moved between the public sector and academia throughout her career, teaching policy analysis and evaluation at Massey prior to joining Kāinga Ora, where she now manages the Evaluation and Research team. 

Hi! I’m your current ANZEA Convenor/Chair, a position I feel very honoured to hold on behalf of our members. This is my second term on the board.

I'm a passionate advocate for the evaluation profession and the value it can add to any initiative. I'm particularly passionate about 'spreading the evaluation love' by building people's capacity in evaluative thinking and practice.

This is why I'm in my happy place being involved with ANZEA’s Professional Development activities and the upcoming conference. I also try to build it into any of the consulting work I am lucky enough to do. This includes work in the science system (my 'home base'), international development (my other 'home base'), education, sport and recreation, wellbeing initiatives.

Kia ora! I joined the ANZEA board in 2022.

One of the perspectives that I bring to ANZEA’s Board is that of commissioning evaluations and completing internal evaluations for a central government agency. Working for the Crown shapes my professional interests in being a good te Tiriti partner, collective impact, and strengthening evaluative thinking and monitoring in continuous delivery (aka Agile, which is an iterative approach to project management).

A fun fact about me is that just when I thought I’d completed all of the Great Walks in Aotearoa, DoC added a new one! You’ll find me on the Paparoa Track later this year.

Kia ora koutou katoa. I joined the ANZEA Board in 2023. I feel honoured to be part of an organisation which promotes a vision for making a difference to people’s lives through high quality and responsive evaluation, and to work with members who are so passionate, knowledgeable and skilled in evaluation.

My background is mainly in teaching, including professional development and mathematics education at VUW. I have undertaken educational evaluation since joining the Education Review office in 2010, where I currently lead projects as a Senior Evaluator in Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre. I have a post-graduate diploma in Social Sector Evaluation Research and have presented at ANZEA and EES conferences and led an evaluation which received the AES Excellence in Public Sector Evaluation award in 2022.

Tēnā koutou

He uri tēnei nō kā taha e rua o te awa o Waitaki arā ko Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe me Waitaha.

I am passionate about using research and evaluation as advocacy tools for my people and building evaluation capacity among whānau and hapori Māori. I’m particularly interested in designing bespoke evaluative tools and frameworks that reflect the needs of individual hapū and iwi.

I’m currently a research and evaluation consultant at Allen + Clarke having previously worked across the tertiary, health, justice and Māori development sectors as an independent research contractor.

Mauri ora!