Kate is an experienced evaluator, trainer and facilitator, supporting people who develop evaluation systems and frameworks, undertake policy and programme evaluations, build evaluation capacity, and apply evaluative thinking in complex and innovative settings
Kate is also renowned for her developmental evaluation expertise, working alongside innovators, supporting them to design, test, prototype and bring to scale new ideas and concepts to address complex challenges and issues.
Kate is a founding member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA), serving as a board member from 2006–2010, Convenor from 2008–2010, and again from 2014–2016. During her leadership tenure, she spearheaded and oversaw the development of national competencies and standards for evaluation. She is also a member of the Australian, American and Canadian Evaluation Associations.
Kate is co-editor of New Zealand’s only evaluation text, Evaluating Policy and Practice, a New Zealand Reader (2003). With Michael Quinn Patton and Nan Wehipeihana, Kate co-edited Developmental evaluation exemplars: Principles in practice (2015).
She is a recipient of the Australasian Evaluation Society's 2013 Best Evaluation Policy and Systems Award along with Nan Wehipeihana, Kataraina Pipi and Veronica Thompson, for the He Oranga Poutama developmental evaluation. She is also a recipient of the prestigious 2019 American Evaluation Outstanding Evaluation Award, along with Judy Oakden, Debbie Goodwin and Jackie Henry, for the developmental evaluation of the Waikato Regional Council's Collaborative Stakeholder Group process.
Examples of Kate’s work and writing:
- Field, A., Cram, A., Garden, E., Hollis, M., McKegg, K., Moss, M., Scarth, B., Wehipeihana, N., Were, L., & Wypych, A. (2022). Community-Led Development Programme Evaluation. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs.
- Gamble, J., McKegg, K., & Cabaj, M. (2021) A Developmental Evaluation Companion, Canada: McConnell Foundation.
- McKegg, K. (2019). White Privilege and the Decolonization Work Needed in Evaluation to Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 34(2), 357–367
- Field, A., Garden, E., Davies, N., King, J., McKegg, K., Mackie, H. (2019). Innovating Road Safety: Lessons for transport planners. Auckland, New Zealand: Dovetail and Kinnect Group
- Field, A., Garden, E., Davies, N., King, J., McKegg, K., Mackie, H. (2019). Innovating Road Safety: Lessons for transport planners (Summary Report). Auckland, New Zealand: Dovetail and Kinnect Group
- Field, A., Davies, N., King, J., McKegg, K. (2019). Signature Programme Evaluation: 2016-2019. Auckland, New Zealand: Dovetail and Kinnect Group.
- Field, A., McKegg, K., Schiff, A. (2019). Signature Programme Evaluation: Visiting Drivers Project. Auckland, New Zealand: Dovetail and Kinnect Group.
- Wehipeihana, N., & McKegg, K. (2018). Values and Culture in Evaluative Thinking: Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand. New Directions for Evaluation, 2018 (158):93–107. 10.1002/ev.20320.
- McKegg, K., Goodwin, D & Oakden, J. (2017). Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora Collaborative Stakeholder Group evaluation – summative report. Hamilton, New Zealand: Kinnect Group.
- Patton, M.Q., McKegg, K., & Wehipeihana, N. (2015). Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Principles in Practice. New York: Guilford Press.
- McKegg, K., Wehipeihana, N., Becroft, M., & Gill, J. (2015). Developmental Evaluation’s Role in Supporting Community-Led Solutions for Maori and Pacific Young People’s Educational Success: The ASB Community Trust Maori and Pacific Education Initiative. In Patton, M.Q., McKegg, K., & Wehipeihana, N. (Eds.), Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Principles in Practice (pp. 125-142). New York: Guilford Press.
- Wehipeihana, N., McKegg, K., Thompson, V., & Pipi, K. (2015). Cultural Responsiveness through Developmental Evaluation: Indigenous Innovations in Sport and Traditional Maori Recreation. In Patton, M.Q., McKegg, K., & Wehipeihana, N. (Eds.), Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Principles in Practice (pp. 25-44). New York: Guilford Press.
- McKegg, K. (2014). White privilege: The flipside of inequality, Evaluation Connections, European Evaluation Society, July, pp 6–7
- Wehipeihana, N., Bailey, R., Davidson, E.J., & McKegg, K. (2014). Evaluator Competencies: The Aotearoa New Zealand Experience. The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 28(3), 49–69.
- King, J., McKegg, K., Oakden & Wehipeihana, N. (2013). Evaluative Rubrics: a Method for Surfacing Values and Improving the Credibility of Evaluation, Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, 9 (21), 11–20.
- McKegg, K. (2013). Evaluation Responsibility and Leadership in the Face of Failing Democracies, American Journal of Evaluation, 34(4), 579-582.
- McKegg, K., Wehipeihana N., Pipi, K., & Thompson, V. (2012). He Oranga Poutama What we have learned? A report on the developmental evaluation of He Oranga Poutama. Wellington, Sport New Zealand.
- McKegg, K., Wilson, D., Goodwin D., Black, X., Sauni, P., Toomua, R., Middleton, S., & Hanna, K. (2012). Evaluation of Sistema Aotearoa. Auckland, Institute of Public Policy, AUT University.
- McKegg, K. (2011). Using Evaluative Inquiry to Generate Useful, High-quality Knowledge about the Quality and Value of Community Initiatives, in Knowledge Translation in Context: indigenous, policy, and community settings, Bannister, E., Leadbeater, B., Marshall, A., & Reicken, T. (eds). Toronto, University of Toronto Press.
- Oakden, J., & McKegg, K. (2011, August). Waste Minimisation Act implementation: evaluation of stakeholder perspectives. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry for the Environment.
- Takao, N., Grenell, D., McKegg, K. and Wehipeihana, N. (2010) Te Piko o Te Māhuri, The Key Attributes of Successful Kura Kaupapa Māori. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Education.
