CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Karen Daley, Business Administrator Engagement Australia (admin@engagementaustralia.org.au)

Version 3.0 310516 The program is subject to change without notice.

engagementaustralia.org.au/conference

Day 1: Monday

7.30 am Registration

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8.30 am WELCOME TO COUNTRY AND CONFERENCE OPENING

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9.00 am PLENARY SESSION: TRANSFORMING OUR ENGAGEMENT

“Transforming our engagement with Indigenous communities”

Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor Henrietta Marrie (CQUniversity)

“Community, Engagement, Learning and the University”

Keynote Speakers: Professor Jim Nyland (Australian Catholic University) & Professor David Davies (UK)

Presentation followed by plenary participation

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10.30 am Morning Tea

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11.00 am PLENARY SESSION: ACTIVATING LEADERSHIP FOR ENGAGEMENT

“Engaged leadership: institutions and individuals”

Keynote Speaker: Professor Barbara Holland

Panelist: Professor Brenda Cherednichenko (Deakin University)

Professor Geoff Scott (Western Sydney University)

Presentation followed by panel discussion and plenary participation

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1.00 pm Lunch

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2.00 pm CAFÉ CONVERSATIONS: “The Engagement Agenda: Who leads, how and with whom?”

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3.00 pm PRACTICE PAPERS Concurrent Sessions (20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion)

Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5

M Christensen & L Wirihana

Queensland University of Technology

The Nursing Professorial Unit in

Acute & Critical Care Nursing:

Translating nursing research in a

Regional Setting

A De Pree

University of Sydney

Building Trust for Transformation

L Harris & H Parris-Kidd

Navitas

Navitas Industry engagement

through internship

A Werner

University of Wollongong

Collaborative Pathways to

Education and Employment:

Transformative Practice of

University of Wollongong

W Conwell & J Clark

University of Queensland

Building community resilience

through partnering with multicultural

and multi faith communities

W O’Neill

Art Centre Melbourne

Inspiration Changes Anybody

(Expanding horizons through the first

call fund)

C Patrick

Griffith University

Transformation & Beyond – Course

design & pedagogical scaffolding for

transformation & employability

K White

Kimbra White Consulting

The good, the bad and the ugly of

engagement – how do you know

what you are doing is good quality

or simply ugly

P Dettwiller

Flinders University

University Community Engagement

Does it Work?

A Snowball & K McCormack

University of Wollongong

My Journey In2Uni, University

Preparation Program (UPP):

Engaging Underrepresented High

School Students in Higher Education

P O’Loughlin, R Catalano & L Anderson University of Technology - Shopfront Community Program

How to Build a Sandcastle: 20 years

(re) building a community

engagement program

L Carton CQUniversity

S Hines The Big Issue

Seeds of Change – Partnering to

bring social innovation to students

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5.30 pm Close

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6.30 pm CONFERENCE DINNER Sponsored by Victoria University

Guest Speaker: Susan Alberti AC

ZINC at Federation Square

Day 2: Tuesday

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7.30 am INDUSTRY BREAKFAST

“Delivering high-impact entrepreneurship through engagement”

Keynote Speaker: Colin Kinner (Director, Spike Innovation)

Panelist: Ms Anita Ziemer (Executive Director, Slade Group)

Ms Tristonne Forbes (Partner, Pollenizer)

Dr Pradeep Philip (CEO, LaunchVic)

Presentation followed by panel discussion

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9.30 am PLENARY SESSION: UNIVERSITIES AS CATALYSTS FOR TRANSFORMATION

“Incubating transformation”

Keynote Speaker: David Williamson (CEO, Melbourne Innovation Centre)

Panelist: Mr Gus Balbontin (Entrepreneur resident Victoria University)

Mr Tim Carroll (Real Estate Tube)

Ms Sally Hines (The Big Issue)

Presentation followed by panel discussion and plenary participation

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10.45 am Morning Tea

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11.15 am SPOTLIGHT SESSIONS

Room 2 Room 4 Room 5

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A McAuliffe

University Technology Sydney

UTS ART indigenous engagement

strategy

F O’Sullivan

Australian College of Applied Psychology

Engagement with community service

providers to transform the professional

& academic education of counsellors

within the community & enrich the

learning of students

C Pettigrow & C Brew

University of Technology - Shopfront Community Program

Deep Broad Strong: Disrupting

emerging narratives of “skills for

profit” with the provision of skills for

learning and changes

A Boyle & R Callahan

Southern Cross University

A regional university’s approach to

connect and prepare distance

students’ transition to study

“10 things every university can do to boost innovation

and entrepreneurship”

Colin Kinner

Director, Spike Innovation

“Transforming your

engagement practice into publication”

Megan Le Clus

Transform Journal Editor

“Engagement, transformation and a valid evidence base to

illustrate impact”

Pierre Viljoen & Carole Dawes

CQUniversity

1.15 pm Lunch

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2.00 pm RESEARCH PAPERS Concurrent Sessions (20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion)

Room 2 Room 4 Room 5

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3.00 pm ROUNDTABLES

Concurrent discussion session

Room 4 Room 5

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4.00 pm CONFERENCE WRAP UP & CLOSE

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R Low

University of Sydney

The Asian-Australian Academic

Partnership: A political ethnography

of university-community engagement

for social transformation

C Patrick

Griffith University

Transformation and beyond –

evaluation of the Griffith Community

Internship Course effects on

transformation and employability

A Wong & R Jeffrey

University of Newcastle

RoboCup Junior in the Hunter

Region: Driving the Future of Robotic

STEM Education

J Butcher & M Pink

Australian Catholic University

Mutual Transformation: Universities

and Communities

B Hill

Southern Cross University

From Mobfest to Solar Sunflowers…

The worthy challenges of

interdisciplinary, community

engage/research teaching and

learning projects

L McCarthy & K Weston

University of Wollongong

Engaging community medical history

K McCormack & J Facchin

University of Wollongong

Engaging Underrepresented

students in Higher Education &

Employment: University of

Wollongong Pathways

Regional Collaboration

S Henson, G Lord, J McDonald

Federation University Australia

The practice of engagement:

Aligning university engagement

to community needs and

disadvantaged groups?