4th Faculties of Health EdHealth Conference
- Staff, both internal and from affiliated institutions, that influence faculty decisions about delivery in the specific areas of teaching research methods including statistic research design, epi etc to PhD students and coursework masters
- Associated Deans, learning and teaching committees, post graduate committees and related sub committees
- Units of study co-ordinators
- Content deliverers
- Staff involved in clinical placement and clinical teaching
- Researchers in Education, both staff and students
- Staff and research students interested in inter-professional developments and student representations on associated committees
- Staff interested and involved in e-learning teaching and research
- Faculties of Health staff, staff from afflicated institutions and invited participants from CHASS and CST
- Invited participants from outside organisations including DEST and NSW Health.
With a focus on learning and teaching the conference will bring together many delegates within the Faculties of Health.
Five keynote guest speakers have agreed to present:
Professor Dawn Forman
Professor Dawn Forman [Dawn] is a Consultant working with Universities andTrusts in the UK on Leadership and Strategic development issues. She is a Adjunct Professor at Auckland University of Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Associate of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education in the UK.
Dawn was a Dean of Faculty for 12 years working in two universities in the UK during that time. Her faculties have included Teacher Education, Sports Science and Biosciences as well as Health and Social Care. Dawn has had the privilege of working across University structures on a variety of projects and has presented at many conferences internationally.
Professor Forman has a keen personal interest in interprofessional Education and it was the subject of her PhD which she completed in 2000. Professor Forman has been a member of CAIPE (Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education) for over 15 years and is now Vice Chair, she is also Chair of the IPE Taskforce [Dawn] and European representative for the Network:Towards Unity for Health which is closely linked to the World Health Organisation.
Dr Joe Hlubucek
Joe Hlubucek was Counsellor (Education, Science and Training) at the Embassy of Australia in 2004-06 and is familiar with international education and science developments and their implications for Australia. His background in education, science and technology policy and programs includes federal and state government, The Reserve Bank of Australia, and previous appointments to Washington as the Counsellor (Industry, Science and Technology) and to San Francisco as Senior Trade Commissioner and Consul-General.
Joe is a graduate of the University of Sydney, with research and teaching experience at universities in London, Oxford, Texas, ANU, and industry in Stockholm.
Mr Tom Calma
Mr Calma is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and acting Race Discrimination Commissioner. He is an Aboriginal elder from the Kungarakan tribal group and a member of the Iwaidja tribal group whose traditional lands are south west of Darwin and on the Coburg Peninsula in Northern Territory, respectively. He has been involved in Indigenous affairs at a local, community, state, national and international level and worked in the public sector for over 30 years. Full biography
Professor Derrick Armstrong
Professor Derrick Armstrong is currently Acting Deputy Provost (Learning & Teaching) and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Sydney.
He is also Co-Director of a £1.5m Research Network funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council investigating young people: 'Pathways Into and Out of Crime: Risk, Resilience and Diversity'. The Network centres on a collaboration between five universities in the UK and partners in Australia and the USA. The research is exploring the experiences and perspectives of children and young people in relation to anti-social and criminal behaviour. Before this he jointly directed the national evaluation of the "On Track" Crime Reduction Programme in the UK, which was concerned with the role of multiple interventions in crime reduction for six to twelve year olds.
Other recent projects have included work on the history of special educational policy since 1944, a project on 'Self-advocacy, Civil Rights and the Social Model of Disability' and a long standing interest in special educational assessment and the perspectives of children and parents.
A further strand of research over the last ten years, in collaboration with Ann Cheryl Armstrong, has focused on educational development in the Caribbean where he has worked with teachers, NGOs and Education Ministries and undertaken research funded by the UK's Department for International Development.
Derrick is (co) author/editor of six books and over sixty articles, book chapters and international conference papers.
Professor Keith Trigwell
Keith Trigwell took up the position of Director of ITL and Professor of Higher Education in October 2006. Before this move Keith was Director of the Oxford Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice, a Fellow of Kellogg College, and Reader in Higher Education at the University of Oxford.
Full biography
The conference aims to:
- Celebrate and showcase learning and teaching in the Faculties of Health
- Promote collaboration and sharing in learning and teaching
- Promote and report on research into learning, teaching, and curricula
- Address issues facing the Faculties of Health
- Facilitate educational development for the Faculties of Health and contribute to the Faculties of Health Strategic Plan
- Provide opportunites for client participation and feedback (internal and external)
- Specific outcomes that are linked to the Faculties of Health Strataegic Plan will be worked through workshops and presentations.
Key themes:
- Interprofessional learning (IPL)
- Restructuring degrees
- Relevance to practice
- Workbased learning
- Internationalisation
With a focus on
- Rural, Indigenous and Assessment innovations in Learning and Teaching in the Faculties of Health.
Conference format:
- Plenary presentations by keynote speakers and daily themes
- Breakout groups - discussions, debates
- Round table discussions
- Poster presentations
- Sponsor's exhibitions
- Demonstrations
Thursday 15 - Friday 16 November 2007
Crowne Plaza, Terrigal
Tel: 02 4384 9111
Fax: 02 4384 9146
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Closing date for registration is 17 October and the submission of abstracts 16 September. (See Submissions)
$195 all inclusive for participants. See Registration
- Lynda Matthews (FHS) Chair
- Vicki Bradford (Nursing)
- Kartina Glebatsas (Medicine)
- Tania Gerzina (Dentistry)
- Jane Hanrahan (Pharmacy)
- Gillian Nisbet (IPL Project Leader)
- Diané Ranck (Faculties of Health)
- Chris Roberts (CIPHER)
- Tim Shaw (CIPHER)
- Jill Thistlethwaite (CIPHER)
- Tracey Thornley (Nursing)