Outcomes Measurement Workshop - Adelaide June 2025

Elevate your organisation's impact and demonstrate it effectively

Thu, 5 Jun- 6 Jun 2025 (Adelaide)

In this interactive workshop delivered by the Centre for Social Impact UWA, you embark on a transformative journey that will equip you with invaluable tools and insights to revolutionise how you measure, assess, and communicate your organisation's impact. Whether you are from government, a not-for-profit organisation, a corporation, a social enterprise or a consultancy firm, when you enrol in our two-day Outcomes Measurement Workshop, you will:

• Learn how to measure, evaluate and report on your social impact
• Take away an outcomes measurement to-do list for your organisation to action straight away
• Enjoy face-to-face learning and engagement with key leaders in the social sector
• Access a network of peers to continue learning and sharing
• Explore approaches to measuring impact that are culturally relevant and safe

Topics covered

• Language and key concepts of outcomes measurement and evaluation
• Practical methods, tools and instruments to support quantitative and qualitative data collection
• Developing a program logic, outcomes measurement framework and data collection plan
• Designing a simple survey and conducting interviews and focus groups, within ethical guidelines
• Storing and managing data
• Communication and reporting on findings
• Links between outcomes measurement, research and evaluation
• Explore a range of evaluation approaches, including approaches to complexity and ‘next generation’ evaluations
• National frameworks and tools that can be used to guide approaches to measurement that are informed by cultural safety
• Reflection on the existing culture and practices across various sectors
• The contested nature of evidence
• An action list to ignite outcomes measurement in your organisation

Participants in the program get a chance to have dialogue with experienced practitioners from all sectors engaged in social purpose activity. The workshop closes with participants creating an action list to ignite outcomes measurement in their organisation.

Register for the June workshop in Adelaide

For more information please get in touch with Mags at CSI UWA: margaret.ritchie@uwa.edu.au or +61 8 6488 5691.

Watch here for a taster of the workshop, presented by Professor Paul Flatau.

Facilitators

Professor Paul Flatau: Over the last two decades, Paul has held an extensive research and evaluation record across the social purpose sector and with government and businesses, covering a broad range of social issues. In recent years, Paul has been working in close contact with the not-for-profit sector, social enterprises, government partners, industry and philanthropists in establishing their outcomes measurement and reporting frameworks. Paul has made significant contributions to the analysis of social and economic outcomes, and social impact and the effectiveness of programs and interventions in Indigenous housing, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, housing, and the assessment of social innovations.

Professor Ian Goodwin-Smith: Ian is the Matthew Flinders Professor of Social Impact and Director of CSI Flinders. He is a researcher in the fields of social policy and social service with extensive experience in research and evaluation relating to social service improvement, systems reform and social policy. He is a research leader experienced in managing research centres and concentrations in collaboration and partnership with industry and community stakeholders. Ian has a history of working collaboratively with government and non-government organisations, communities and people who have been marginalised, and a long track record of research partnerships, both internationally and in all Australian states and territories, in metropolitan, country and remote settings. He has experience in co-designing and administering large scale research and evaluation projects, and in working across sectors and disciplines with a range of stakeholder groups.