Outcomes Measurement Workshop - Melbourne August 2026
Elevate your organisation's impact and demonstrate it effectively
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
- Deep dive into using the Community Services Outcomes Tree
- Discuss barriers and solutions to outcomes measurement
- 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.
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 - Director, Centre for Social Impact UWA
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.
Guest speakers
Professor Erin Wilson - Director, Centre for Social Impact Swinburne
Erin has a long track record in outcomes measurement, particularly in the context of social services and marginalised groups. She is the lead researcher of the team that designed the Community Services Outcomes Tree, now used by social purpose organisations around the world. She has also designed award winning feedback mechanisms for children with disability. Erin works with a wide range of social sector organisations in their evaluation and outcomes measurement design and has a strong understanding of the practical constraints.
Dr Roksolana Suchowerska - Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Centre for Social Impact Swinburne
Roksolana works with organisations across public, private, community and hybrid sectors to co-create knowledge for inclusive social change. Roksolana is Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Centre for Social Impact Swinburne (CSI Swinburne) in Swinburne’s School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship. She has expertise in political sociology and her interests span network governance and systems of support for critical life transitions in the digital age.