Overview
Background
Emily is an experienced evaluator and policy analyst whose experience is designing, collecting and interpreting high quality evidence to improve outcomes for priority groups. She has deep, strategic knowledge of the Australian public sector, working alongside government agencies to design, implement and evaluate large, complex social policy initiatives.
Emily's motivated by helping her clients to use evaluation and research to understand the people they serve - conumers, service providers, Executive sponsors, advocacy groups - to deliver tailored programs and achieve better outcomes both for people and human service systems.
Her ability to build rapid rapport, synthesise complex information and balance perspectives means she is an in-demand strategic facilitator and trusted advisor to the executives of government agencies.
Her work creates impact because of her ability to connect information and people. She's great at taking complex information and making it simple and easy to action.
Availability
- Dr Emily Yorkston is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Biomedical Science, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor (Honours) of Physiology, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy of Epidemiology, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Interaction between physical space and social outcomes
I am interested in how our physical environment can support or constrain how we interact with other people and the social outcomes we experience.
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Public policy evaluation
I work with industry and government to understand what works, why and how so that public policy can be strengthened to achieve social outcomes.
Research impacts
Emily leads large, complex projects for Australian, state and territory governments, who use the insights from those projects to adjust their policy and programming directions. A recent example of this was Emily's work as the lead investigator for the three-year evaluation of the Southport Specialist Domestic and Family Violence Court Justice Response. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, an extensive literature review, stakeholder and victim-survivor interviews, the report presented evidence for how the Queensland Government could move forward with the Court Justice Response. These recommendations were accepted by the Queensland Government, and the specialist domestic and family violence courts are now an ongoing and integral part of the Government's response to domestic and family violence. They are now delivered in five locations across Queensland. The Final Report was included as evidence in the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce, Hear Her Voice Report 2.
Works
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2005
Conference Publication
The effectiveness of the WHO Safe Communities model for injury prevention: a proposal for an international trial
McClure, R., Schluter, P., Yorkston, E., Turner, C., Spinks, A. and Scuffham, P. (2005). The effectiveness of the WHO Safe Communities model for injury prevention: a proposal for an international trial. 14th International Conference on Safe Communites, Bergen, Norway, 13-15 June, 2005. World Health Organisation.
2004
Conference Publication
Evaluation research: a hitchhiker's guide
McClure, R., Turner, C. and Yorkston, E.K. (2004). Evaluation research: a hitchhiker's guide. International Seminar on Injury Research Methods, Vienna, Austria, 6-9 June, 2004. World Health Organisation.
2004
Conference Publication
Program evaluation methodology: The Mount Isa-Mackay Childhood Injury Prevention Projects (CHIPP)
Yorkston, E., Turner, C., Schluter, P., Scuffham, P. and McClure, R. (2004). Program evaluation methodology: The Mount Isa-Mackay Childhood Injury Prevention Projects (CHIPP). 4th Annual Queensland Health Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, 30 November - 1 December, 2004.
2004
Conference Publication
Community-based injury prevention program evaluation
Yorkston, E.K., Turner, C., Neville, G. and McClure, R. (2004). Community-based injury prevention program evaluation. 7th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Vienna, Austria, 6-9 June, 2004. World Health Organisation.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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