Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia 2015 Programme

2015,

9th - 12th November

Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia 2015

Conference Programme

Friday, 25th September
Friday 09:15 - 10:00	PPI course registration Venue Sloane Robinson foyer
Friday 10:00 - 12:00	PPI course morning Venue Seminar Room 2, Sloane Robinson Building
Friday 12:00 - 12:45	PPI course lunch Venue Dining Hall
Friday 12:30 - 14:30	Registration, refreshments - conference Venue Sloane Robinson foyer
Friday 12:45 - 14:00	PPI course afternoon Venue Seminar Room 2, Sloane Robinson Building
Friday 14:20 - 14:30	Welcome Venue Lecture Theatre, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Friday 14:30 - 14:40	Vision Loss and Challenges to Mobility minisymposium - Introduction and overview Venue Lecture Theatre, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Friday 14:40 - 16:10	OS - F1 Vision Loss and Challenges to Mobility minisymposium Chaired By: Bláithín Gallagher and Bart Melis-Dankers Venue Lecture Theatre, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
14:53 - 15:05 Working younger and stronger » 15:06 - 15:18 A Discipline-Centred Approach to Widening Participation » 15:19 - 15:31 Evolution of evaluation in a STEM widening participation program » 15:32 - 15:44 The future of STEM: Who seeks a career in STEM and why? »
Friday 16:10 - 16:45	Vision Loss and Challenges to Mobility minisymposium - Panel discussion Venue Lecture Theatre, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Friday 16:45 - 17:15	Afternoon coffee Venue Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Friday 17:15 - 18:00	OS - F2 Friday Rapid Fire poster Chaired By: Bláithín Gallagher Venue Lecture Theatre, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Friday 18:30 - 19:30	Welcome drinks Venue Newman Quad
Friday 19:30 - 21:00	Barbecue Venue Newman Quad
Saturday, 26th September
Saturday 07:30 - 08:30	Breakfast Venue Dining Hall
Saturday 08:00 - 08:30	Registration Venue Sloane Robinson foyer
Saturday 08:30 - 09:15	KN - 140 Adaptation and plasticity after brain damage - Keynote Chaired By: Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski/Gary Rubin Venue O'Reilly Lecture Theatre
08:30 The Power of New Media in the Equity Narrative »
Saturday 08:30 - 18:00	PS - 1 Posters on display Venue Arco Room
A holistic 'Pasifika Initiative' for Pasifika tertiary students: - A cultural perspective » Smashing the gap: Indigenous Australians accessing and transitioning to university the AIME way » Disability Action Plans: Supporting staff and students with disabilities » Transformative Learning for University Students through Outreach Programs: » Personas Project: Informing Student Equity Initiatives in Higher Education » Women in Leadership - the Intersection of Race and Gender » "My family think me more capable and not just a survivor": Journeys of some early school leavers through a tertiary preparation course » Increasing the student gender balance in areas where men are under-represented » KickStart vs Low SES, Disadvantage and Equity - it's all in the language » Deconstructing the Role of an LGBTIQ Ally: University of Sydney Case Study » Inclusion through Language? » Teaching as a critical pathway to university for students from 'disadvantaged' backgrounds » Widening participation through investigating who seeks access to what, why and when » Animated videos - a new way of engaging students in digital literacy at Deakin University » SEAMS: Improving engagement in science and mathematics to aid access to higher education for Victorian secondary students » Outreach and retention of Maori and Pasifika students in the Australian higher education – a community approach » U@Uni HSC Tutorial Scheme – Supporting academic attainment and developing graduate attributes » WADING IN DEEP: UWA's EQUALITY AND INCLUSION STRATEGY, 2015-2020 » Consideration of Academic Progress at AUT University for Equity Groups » "Building aspiration in the Creative Arts": a reflection on a collaborative project between regional low SES high schools and the University of Newcastle School of Creative Arts » From HEPPP to HEPP: The Queensland Widening Tertiary Participation Consortium in transition »
Saturday 09:15 - 10:00	KN - 120 Adaptation and plasticity after brain damage - minisymposium Chaired By: Gary Rubin Venue O'Reilly Lecture Theatre
Saturday 10:00 - 10:45	Morning coffee Venue Arco Rom
Saturday 10:00 - 18:00	Exhibitors Venue Arco Room
Saturday 10:45 - 12:00	OS - S1 Adaptation and plasticity after brain damage - Contributed papers Chaired By: Aart Kooijman Venue O'Reilly Lecture Theatre
11:15 Moving beyond "acts of faith": effective scholarships for equity students » 11:30 Care leavers and higher education: implications for equity practitioners » 11:45 On the Relationship between Socio-economic Status and Educational and Career Aspirations in the Middle Years of Schooling »
Saturday 12:00 - 13:00	Lunch Venue Dining Hall
Saturday 13:00 - 14:15	OS - S2 Homonymous Hemianopia and other Visual Field Defects Chaired By: Gera de Haan Venue O'Reilly Lecture Theatre
13:00 The role of close collaboration of schools and universities in the successful transition of students from non-traditional backgrounds to university » 13:15 Beating the Odds: Widening Participation Initiatives with Students from Rural and Remote Areas »
Saturday 14:15 - 15:30	OS - S3 Vision Assessment Chaired By: Anton Verezen Venue Sloane Robinson Lecture Theatre
14:30 RMIT's I Belong engagement program: learnings and challenges » 14:45 Community Change can Influence Uptake of Teritary Study » 15:00 Making it real: Courageous Conversations about Race across the Tasman »
Saturday 15:30 - 16:15	Afternoon coffee Venue Arco Room
Saturday 15:30 - 17:30	PS - 2 Poster session - attended viewings Venue Arco Room
Saturday 17:30 - 18:30	OS - S4 Epidemiology of Low Vision Chaired By: Ruth van Nispen Venue Sloane Robinson Lecture Theatre
17:45 Going Online and Ongoing with Indigenous pre-tertiary students » 18:00 Listening to Emma and Liana: stories from two Aboriginal women who are first in their families to attend university »
Saturday 19:00 - 23:00	Gala Dinner Venue Dining Hall
Sunday, 27th September
Sunday 07:30 - 08:30	Breakfast Venue Dining Hall
Sunday 08:30 - 09:45	OS - Su1 Training and Technology to Improve Reading with Low Vision Chaired By: António Filipe Macedo Venue Sloane Robinson Lecture Theatre
08:30 UniMentor: connecting students » 08:45 Dilution of Effective Equity Strategies? » 09:00 From followers to contributors: LGBTIQ progress at Deakin » 09:15 The impact of strategic interventions at critical career points on gender equity in academia – a case study »
Sunday 08:30 - 13:30	PS - 3 Posters on display Venue Arco Room
Sunday 09:45 - 10:15	Morning coffee Venue Arco Room
Sunday 10:15 - 11:15	OS - Su2 Higher Order Effects of Vision Loss Chaired By: Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski Venue Sloane Robinson Lecture Theatre
10:15 Transformational Conflict Management » 10:30 What we need in a Social Marketing Strategy for WP in LSES Communities » 10:45 The Politics of Motherhood in the Marketised University »
Sunday 11:15 - 12:15	OS -Su3 Assessment and Treatment of Children with Low Visions Chaired By: Fernando Vargas-Martin Venue Sloane Robinson Lecture Theatre
11:45 Influencing the key influencers: strategies and resources for engagement in regional Western Australia » 12:00 Widening Participation in Medicine »
Sunday 12:15 - 13:15	Lunch and Business Meeting Venue Dining Hall

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