SVA Symposium and Summit Presentation Drop In Support Session 2025
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The 2025 Student Voice Symposium and Summit, hosted by Griffith University on the Gold Coast with online options available towards the end of October, serves as a supportive platform for higher education professionals to share their ideas regarding student voice. The session aims to guide participants through the requirements for preparing and submitting an abstract while boosting confidence for those new to conference presenting. Whether attendees are first-timers or experienced practitioners, the event encourages co-presenting with peers or staff members to foster diversity of experience and provide mutual support during presentations. This collaborative environment is designed to help individuals hone their presentation skills, share practical learnings, and connect with passionate colleagues across Australasia who are dedicated to advancing student engagement in higher education.
Participants can choose from various abstract submission types that align with specific conference themes such as student voice in governance, co-creating curriculum, building inclusive communities, or enhancing confidence and capability. The available formats include traditional insight sessions lasting 30 minutes for evidence-based research, shorter lightning talks of 10 minutes each without slides to share real-world practices quickly, visual poster presentations during networking breaks, interactive solutions labs for code-signing strategies, and a flexible design-your-own category for innovative ideas. Each format has distinct word limits, with insight sessions allowing up to 250 words requiring APA references, while lightning talks are limited to 100 words without images or tables, ensuring that presenters can select the style best suited to their specific project stage and goals.
To maximize impact, abstracts should clearly demonstrate alignment with conference themes by addressing real-world problems, describing actions taken, quantifying results, and outlining broader significance for the sector. The session emphasizes writing specifically for a diverse audience ranging from student leaders and academics to policy makers, ensuring that submissions effectively communicate clarity of description and significant outcomes. Attendees are encouraged to leverage travel grants available through member institutions like Murdoch University and consider online presentation options if funding or logistics pose challenges, as hybrid sessions will be accommodated based on demand during the program development phase following application closure in July.
Ultimately, presenting at this symposium offers invaluable opportunities for career development by showcasing initiative, innovation, and communication skills that are highly valued by future employers. By transforming students from passive participants into co-creators of educational change, presenters can significantly enhance their resumes while contributing to meaningful systemic improvements within universities. The event also provides a unique chance to network with potential mentors and collaborators who could influence one's professional trajectory, making it an essential step for anyone looking to demonstrate leadership in student partnership initiatives across the tertiary education sector.
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As I said, Belinda is going to be
recording this. So, welcome. This is the
2025 student voice symposium and student
voice summit session around preparing
and submitting an abstract. So, I'm
Carrie. I'm a career development
consultant at Griffith University and uh
it's fantastic to be part of this
session today. Hoping we'll all get a
lot out of it.
So as I begin I'd like to acknowledge
the turbul and yagura peoples at the
traditional custodian of the land. We
pay respect to the elders past parts and
present and extend that respect to all
aiginal and toouristr islander peoples.
So here's a little bit about the uh the
student voice symposium and summit that
is coming up. It's going to be run um
towards the end of October, 23rd, 24th
of October. It will be at Griffith
University Gold Coast and they'll also
be um online too, which is it's
fantastic. If you're you're not able to
um to make it all the way over to the to
the east coast. Uh so the symposium and
summits are really friendly, supportive
group of people who are really
passionate about student voice in higher
education. So we really want to hear
from you. Whether you're a first timer,
whether you're new to presenting at
conferences or you're an experienced
practitioner, this is a fantastic
opportunity. All your voices are valued.
Uh the purpose of the session today is
to take you through the requirements of
preparing and submitting an abstract uh
to present at this event and also to
hopefully boost your confidence um and
encourage you to give it a go if you you
tend if you are new to this conference
in particular or to presenting at
conference in general.
It's probably no more a supportive
environment than this one. Um it's
really good um to think about this as an
opportunity to hone your presentation
skills, share your ideas, your practice,
your learnings. Um and also to hear from
other people who are just as passionate
as you about uh student voice in the
higher education space.
Okay. Okay. So, we've only got a couple
of people in the room, but I want to get
a bit of an indication from you. Um
maybe just just speak up and let me
know, Donna and Novi, um what your
conference experiences. So, which of
these would probably represent your your
current experience? I'll start with you,
Donna. Which one do you think represents
your current feelings about about
conference?
Um
I've I sorry I haven't done conference
before especially with the disability
uh related so I really have no idea at
the moment. Yeah. And have you um have
you had some ideas about what you might
like to present at the conference this
year or are you still sort of thinking
through what your options are? Yeah. Um
no V and I we are developing a pilot
project to the Moroc University. It's um
it's called um disability support body
to help student with disabilities
um achieved
in their um studies
not just academically but also socially.
So it's um we are creating a peer
support program for the university.
Sounds fantastic. And what a great topic
for this conference. Yeah, it's um it's
actually Novi's idea.
Ah based on based on her experience
and you would be co-presenting. Is that
what you are hoping to do? Yeah. No BNI.
That's brilliant. So keep in mind that
for this particular conference
co-presenting is really highly
encouraged. So whether you present with
a peer or whether you present with a
staff member, a colleague, it is often
it's so much easier to have someone up
there with you um giving your your
presentation. It gives you that
confidence having that buddy with you.
Um and the audience actually really
enjoys hearing the diversity of
experience amongst amongst presenters.
Now, Novi, I don't know whether you're
able to speak at all. Does your mic
work? Okay.
Yeah. Hi, good to good to hear you.
Yeah. Are you are you at about the same
uh level as as Donna or do you have a
little more experience or whereabouts do
you sit when it comes to thinking about
your conference experience?
Um I previously had uh an experience
attending conference but it's to present
my research not a project. So like I
don't have uh really
um comprehensive idea on what to include
in the abstract in the overview as
requested in the application form. So
that's why I decided to book and attend
this session. Yeah. Well, it sounds to
me like you've got yourselves a quite a
wellformed
um theme. You you you have an idea about
what you would like to do, which
honestly is the first hurdle. Um the
next hurdle is presenting that in the
format that um the conference organizers
require and that's what we'll do. We'll
take you through preparing and
submitting the abstract today. So, it's
fantastic. Thank you for uh for sharing
where you're at.
So just a little bit on why you would
consider um presenting. So there's some
fantastic reasons why you might want to
step up and give this a go. So
showcasing your ideas, you can make some
real impact. You can share your
perspective on education. You can show
how student voices can actually drive
change. Um you'll be influencing
educators, policy makers, peers. It's a
fantastic opportunity.
It's also a fantastic opportunity to
learn through experience.
So this is what we call real world
learning, right? So you'll be
contributing to streams like structures
that listen, where you're designing
systems where student voice really
drives that meaningful change. Um it's
also thinking about innovative ways that
institutions can listen to, hear and act
on student feedback.
Another one of the uh the streams is
learning together. So learning together
is all about helping design inclusive
and engaging education. This is where
students can help shape what they learn,
how they learn, um, and why they learn.
Belonging and culture can lead to some
fantastic conversations around
diversity, well-being, and belonging in
the education of leadership and action.
So this is a fantastic way for you to
share your journey and inspire others to
step up and create change. Um, it's a
great way to build uh your confidence,
your communication skills, your
leadership skills, and these skills are
actually highly valued in any career
that you're looking at getting into. And
a great opportunity to connect with
potential future employers and mentors.
So, you are going to meet professionals,
educators, and other student leaders
from all across Australasia. This is
fantastic for your networking, for
references, and for future job
opportunities. You never know, you might
actually be working with these people
one day.
Firstly, being that voice for change in
education is really important. Um, so
you'll be really helping shift that role
of students from participants to
co-creators. You'll be doing that by
sharing your practice and your ideas.
This is something that really does
resonate with um with employers
nowadays. They really value initiative
and innovation. It also helps you to
boost your resume and stand out from the
crowd. So employers really value that
demonstration of presentation skills
also engaging in activities that
demonstrate your ability to communicate
with a diverse range of people in that
professional context. That's really
highly valued. Um so from a career
development um consultant or career
practitioner perspective um this is such
an amazing opportunity uh for you. uh
make sure that uh you put your
attendance your your name of your paper
everything on your on your region p
it'll be highly impressive to employers.
So I just want to share some important
dates and information links etc. Um
please keep in mind your applications
are due by July the 18th. Um you will
need to make your application via the
online application form.
Your abstract length will vary be
between 100 and 250 words maximum
depending on the presentation type you
nominate and I'll take you through a
couple of those in a little bit. You
must also register to attend the
conference um to be included in the
program. Now if you have any questions
Belinda is the SPA coordinator and here
is an email address for Belinda. Um so
any questions after the session today or
as you're developing your ideas and
thinking about um submitting your
abstract please uh make sure you contact
Linda directly.
Um keep in mind registration will open
in August. Member institutions will have
access to a number of complimentary
inerson tickets. These are the mix of
students staff tickets. Um there will be
additional tickets that will be
available at a discounted price and
non-members can purchase tickets by the
registration.
Blinda can let you know about how all of
these tickets and registration will
work. Um and also the fact that there
will be student travel grants available.
So if you have any questions about any
of that, please contact Linda directly.
So what I want to do is just take you
through the themes for this year's
conference. So there are four themes.
Your abstract, it will actually need to
demonstrate alignment with at least one
theme. You can align to two, that's
great. Three, that's fantastic. You will
need to nominate the theme in the
application for the submission. So if
you're struggling to to really think
about what theme is going to be the best
fit for you uh for your topic, please u
please have a conversation with Valenta.
So I'll just go through this briefly.
Obviously, you can read the themes and
the information that's available um on
the SPA website, which we'll have a look
at a minute. Um but if you're looking at
that first theme around student voice
and university governance, your
presentations might be around policies
that formalize student input, digital
tools and amplify student voice or
innovative governance practices.
If you're looking at um the co-creating
curriculum and pedagogy um as your
theme, you might be looking at student
staff code sign in curriculum feedback
loops in teaching inclusive pedagogy or
examples of reciprocal learning
cultures.
If you're looking at building inclusive
communities, it might be around
initiatives that are really build
connection and well-being practices that
support diverse and marginalized voices.
Um, I'm just thinking through yours,
Donna and Novi, the the topic that you
have suggested. There's probably a
couple here that might fit. Um, and the
last one is around building confidence
and capability. So, that's around
leadership development, peer-to-peer
training, recognition and reward, etc.
So, when you look at those, Sonor and
Novia, is there any any theme in
particular that you think fits um fits
quite well? Where would you head to?
culture and belonging is the first one
that aligns really well. Yeah, I think
so too. And then maybe structures that
listen because we will propose a
business case after conducting the
pilot. Yeah. Fantastic. Business case
will be proposed to the university
perhaps.
Thank you.
Yeah, sounds fantastic. I think you're
you're thinking exactly along the right
along the right lines there. Sounds
good. So, there's a number of different
abstract submission types. Um, they've
changed a little bit this year. I'm not
sure if you've attended previously and
are used to things and things, but this
is how it's organized. Um now um if you
are just starting out and you've got
limited time to prepare a presentation
or you're looking for something that's a
bit of an alternative to a traditional
presentation, you might like to consider
a lightning talk or a visual poster
presentation.
Um if you are looking to share your
research and evidence-based insights in
a longer format, this is our more
traditional format. This is where the
insight session comes in. If you're
looking for those more practical
peer-driven strategies and you want an
opportunity to do some code design, uh
the solutions lab is probably the one
you're looking at. And then if you've
got a bit of an out of the box idea
which doesn't really fit any of these um
categories, please put it in the design
your own um category and um we'd love to
see what innovative and amazing uh
things you come up with. So what I am
going to do, I'm just going to stop
sharing for a minute. And I'm going to
bring up the uh page, the student voice
Australia page. I want to share that
with you just for a moment.
It's going to take us through a bit more
detail around um the
types
um of ways that are that are here. I'm
just going to take you through these um
presentation types and then we'll have a
chat about which ones you're thinking
might might suit you. So if you have a
look here, your inside session, it's a
30 minute presentation
which includes 10 minutes. So it's
really 20 + 10. So think of it, think of
it that way or 15 to 20 + 10. You're
going to leave lots of time for Q&A for
this one.
tells you exactly what you need to
prepare. Um, your presentation abstract
will be up to 250 words and there are
abstract formatting guidelines here and
you're actually taken through those very
carefully step by step in the
application form. So, it's quite
self-explanatory.
Also tells you what the review criteria
is and this review criteria is standard
across all um of the presentation types.
So just keep in mind you obviously need
to nominate a theme or two or three
whatever you want to do um that you
think is most relevant um to one of the
conferences dub theme.
They're looking for cl by they I mean
the working group which is a mix of
students and staff across Australasia
who are on the working group for this
conference. They're looking for clarity
of description of the initiative, the
research, the practice, the overall
significance and impact. So can you show
uh your impact? Can you show what
outcomes uh you've had the quality of
the writing and then obviously adhering
to the formatting guidelines. So that
one was for an inside session.
The lightning talks which are the
shorter alternative
um are 10 + 10. So there's no slides. um
you it's a really quick way to share
some of the real world uh practices and
experiences that you've had. It's really
narrative driven. Um it's supposed to be
short, sharp, quick.
Again, you can see here what to prepare.
The presentation abstract is only 100
words for this one.
The guidelines are here.
There's no references expected for this
one. No tables, no images.
And again the review criteria are here.
So just keep in mind that with the
insight uh session
your references must be included. They
are not included in the word count but
you must follow the APA 7th edition
style. Okay? And those will go direct
directly into the text box that's on the
submission.
This is your visual poster presentation.
So this is um your opportunity to
present your poster literally a poster
which will be up during um a 45minut
session of networking time where you
will be um you will be located with your
poster and as people are walking around
the room you'll have the opportunity to
speak um about your topic.
It tells you what to prepare.
Again, no references needed for this
one. Same review criteria, etc.
So again, if you're looking for
something that's a bit of an alternative
to your standard longer conference
presentation, probably your lightning
talks and your visual poster
presentation are the way to go.
Otherwise, your insert insight session
is your more traditional um conference
style presentation. Then we go into
other ones like the solutions lab which
is that coded sign opportunity. That's
that 60inut highly interactive
um opportunity that you have if you need
to uh code it sign the people in the
room.
And uh this one references are not
essential for this presentation type.
Then there's a design your own which we
mentioned um if you've got a really
creative presentation format which
doesn't seem to fit the others um submit
it under design your own. Okay. And the
application form is in here. So I'm just
going to pop that link into our chat
just so you've got that one.
So having a look at those Donna and Noi.
Which one do you think there's one in
particular that you're interested in?
you think would fit what you're thinking
of doing?
Um, I think we were looking at the
lightning or the insight session. Gary,
so your lightning talk is that very
quick 10-minute presentation with the
10-minute um discussion, those slides.
Um, and then your insight session is
that 30 minute research and reflection,
sharing those evidence-based insights.
It gives you just that little bit more
time to expand on the impacts and
outcomes from your work and also
includes again a 10-minute Q&A.
So, be interesting to see where you end
up going. Um, and if you need to talk
that through, obviously have a chat to
she'll be able to help you out with um
deciding on that one. Um, you've got 250
words for your abstract for your insight
session and you've got 100 words for
your lightning session being a shorter
format. Yeah.
Okay. Very good. So, I'm going to stop
sharing that one and we'll go back to
the presentation.
All
right. So, lots of opportunities there,
lots of different abstract submission
types um that you can you can choose
from.
So we talked briefly about how abstracts
are assessed. Um just keep in mind the
the symposium summit working group the
conference working group are responsible
for assessing um all the abstracts
submitted and these are the criteria
that they'll be they'll be using. I'm
going to show you some examples um to
make sure that you feel you can actually
you know meet the meet the criteria
there.
But I guess the first tip that I have
for you is to think about who your
audience is. So who's your audience? You
really need to think about writing with
them in mind. Now um the the summit is
on day one and this is a student um only
event. Um this is the one where you'll
have student leaders, representatives,
executives from student led
organizations who are advocating on
behalf of students um in in attendance.
Your day two will be the symposium and
this is where you get a real mix of
people away from your students to your
practitioners, your academics, your
researchers, student leaders, all kinds
of of people. Um,
sometimes it's a bit hard to choose uh
what day you want to present on. So, you
can actually leave that up to the the
working group. I think you can nominate
that in your forum if you're not too not
too sure. I think you can nominate
either.
Um, but really do think about who you're
writing for. So I'll give you an
example. So practitioners may be
educators, they may be student support
staff, they might be other professionals
within the tertiary education sector,
might be people from the sector or
people who are implementing student
partnership initiatives, programs and
practices. Students could be um student
leaders, representatives, executives
from student le organizations
um and could be students who are simply
interested in uh in student voice.
Your academics and researchers, they
really contribute that valuable
knowledge and expertise to discussions
around student partnership as well. They
can influence the design of inclusive
teaching methods and research on
effective student engagement strategies.
um and your leaders. So your leaders
could be student leaders, they could be
academic leaders, they could be
professional staff leaders, they might
be policy makers, they might be
administrators. So really think about
your audience cuz it's quite broad.
So, if you're thinking about um
submitting for the lightning talk, I'm
basically going to give you the
breakdown of two different types of uh
presentation types, the lightning talk
and the insight session.
Um I'd just like to acknowledge um that
an a conference team actually for the
structure that I'm going to take you
through particularly Megan Posy from
UNISQ.
um she ran an abstract submissions
session quite similar to this for their
upcoming conference. I've taken uh quite
a few tips from that as they were so
helpful to me when I was considering um
how I was going to prepare my abstract.
Um so hopefully you'll find this useful
too.
So this example that I've used here,
this is not a real life example. This is
just uh something that's been made up.
Um it's really been created to
demonstrate all the elements of a
lightning talk. Um, note there's no
tables, images, or references that are
required for this presentation type. The
colors indicate the important sections
um of your abstract.
So, I'll just go through those briefly.
So, the section in blue, note that this
uh introductory session, this opening,
it presents the problem or the context.
This is where you immediately establish
what that real world problem is um that
audiences might relate to.
In the orange section, this is about
what action you took, what innovation,
what did you do? It clearly describes
the approach that you took.
The purple section is around the results
or the impact. So, what happened? Can
you quantify it? What's your concrete
outcomes?
And the blue section is around the
broader significance to the sector. Um,
think about linking this back to the
conference theme and sub themes what
broader implications this might have uh
for for the sector.
I've also uh provided because you also
need to provide a presentation summary
of two to three sentences um for a
lightning talk. So this is an example of
a presentation summary.
Do all those sections make sense to you
Donna and Novi? Anything surprising for
you in there?
Uh excuse me. Can I have access to the
text uh of the samples because I'm blind
so I cannot access the visual
information here? Oh yeah, of course.
Um, Belinda, you've got a copy of um the
Ah, okay. Novi, we're going to have to
think about how we get you get you
access. Let's chat about that. Belinda,
would you mind chatting to Novi? Yeah.
Um, about that maybe after the session.
Is that okay? Yeah, absolutely. And
we'll because it's recorded, if you need
to go back and have a look at the text
in more details, that's an option. Um,
otherwise you might be able to email the
slides around or a snapshot of some of
the content as well. So yeah, I think I
think you said you're blind. You vision
impaired.
Yeah, I'm totally blind so I cannot
access. Oh, sorry. I misheard that. Um,
okay. Yep, absolutely. Um we we'll have
a chat to you about what the most
appropriate way to get this these
resources are to you but I will give you
an example. Thank you for letting me
know. So I'll take you through that. Um
so I will I'll obviously I'll present it
to you and then you can talk to Belinda
about getting a copy of the notes and
how that works best for you. Okay. Um,
so the opening of the problem or context
is around. So the example that I've
given, keep in mind it's only 100 words.
So this is my challenge to you. Trying
to get everything you want to say within
a 100 words for an abstract for a
lightning talk can be quite tricky. Um,
so I've given an example of an opening.
Um so that is traditional student
feedback surveys at our university
generated low response rates and limited
actionable change creating fatigue uh
feedback fatigue among students who felt
unheard. So that's the opening that's
setting the scene. The next section is
around what you did.
So the example I've given is through a
grassroots initiative, we replace
semester end surveys with ongoing
co-creation workshops where students and
academics staff collaboratively read at
sign curriculum elements in real time.
Then the next section we focus on is the
results the impact what your
quantifiable outcomes are.
And the example I've given is this shift
from p passive feedback collection to
active partnership has increased student
engagement by 300% and resulted in
tangible curriculum improvements across
five faculties.
Then the last section is around broader
significance. It's around connecting to
the conference theme and the broader
implications for your discipline your
sector. And the example I've given is
our experience demonstrates how moving
beyond the speed requires fundamentally
reimagining feedback mechanisms to
create genuine shared power in
educational decision making.
So that's the example that I've given
you and I've also um provided a
presentation summary of two to three
sentences and the summary is this
presentation shares the real world
journey of transforming a broken student
feedback system into a thriving
cocreation model that gives students
genuine decision-making power in
curriculum design including the
practical steps taken and an unexpected
lessons learned along the way. Attendees
will discover actionable strategies for
implementing similar partnership
approaches in their own institutions,
turning student feedback fatigue into
authentic educational collaboration.
So that was the presentation summary of
two to three sentences around that
abstract.
Thank you. Thank you so much for that.
Really appreciate it. That's okay. No
problem.
So the next example that I'm going to
give you is around that longer format
which is the insight session. So this is
your your longer 30 minute um format.
And I've broken this down again. This is
an example. It's not real life. You can
get some examples from the SBA um web
page which I've given you the link to.
you need to look at the previous um
symposium and it will give you lots of
lots of different examples there.
So this example has been created to
demonstrate the elements of the insight
session. Um I've divided it into the key
components that you would consider. It
has four parts. I'm going to start from
um number one. So you'll need to
establish the context relevant to your
presentation. The example I've given is
student voice initiatives in Australian
higher education often struggle to move
beyond consultation toward genuine
shared power with many programs
inadvertently reinforcing tokenistic
practices rather than fostering
authentic partnerships. And Matthews
2017 is cited.
The second section
describe how the problem, the
opportunity or the project emerged from
the context and what you did.
The example text I've provided is this
longitudinal mixed method study
investigated how formal student
leadership development programs
influenced both individual student
capacity and institutional readiness for
meaningful change across eight
universities from 2021 to 2024.
Using a transformative mixed methods
approach, Cook SAT at all 2014 is cited.
We collected survey data from 312
student leaders and 89 staff members,
conducted 45 in-depth interviews, and
analyzed institutional policy documents
and meeting records. Participants were
tracked across three academic years to
examine developmental trajectories and
institutional responses to studentled
initiatives.
Section three, this is where you've got
to outline the learnings, your findings,
and the outcome from whatever your
research or your project was. And the
example text is as follows. findings
reveal three distinct institutional
archetypes. Performative adopters
maintaining traditional hierarchies
while appearing inclusive. Genuine
experimenters actively testing new
partnership models and systemic
transformers embedding student voice
into governance structures. Student
leaders in systemic transformer
institutions demonstrated significantly
higher levels of agency, policy
literacy, and change making confidence
compared to peers in other contexts.
And then the last section, um section
four, you'll need to outline what can we
take from this? What can we learn? The
the um the listener wants to know, the
audience wants to know what's in it for
me.
And the example text I've provided is,
"These findings challenge universities
to examine whether their student voice
initiatives genuinely distribute power
or merely create an illusion of
participation, offering evidence-based
recommendations for designing programs
that foster authentic partnership and
sustainable institutional change.
So that's for your insight session. It's
that slightly longer session
and as I um mentioned to you there are
some examples on the SBA web page
um as I said I've provided um that link
and these are actually really useful for
seeing what's been success have a look
what's been successful in the past um
what do their abstracts look like um you
can learn from what um you know others
have done um previously. So it's a good
opportunity have a look at at that
resource.
So we are at the end of our um session
now is a time for your questions.
Anything that you want to ask um and it
can be honestly anything. So please just
go ahead. Is there anything in
particular that you want to know at this
point?
Um Carrie, you also offered online
presentation, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Um cuz at the moment our
mentors were thinking of like um we're
doing the online but um we're thinking
of there's a possibility of we are going
to Brisbane to present but um not yet in
so at the moment we're doing we were
planning to present it online.
I'm sure that's fine. But Linda, do you
how is the online or Sarah, how does the
online sort of component work? Yeah,
that's fine. So on the application form,
you'll be able to indicate your
preference if you want to come in
person, if you want to present online or
you can also select if you're unsure. So
um we understand often if you are coming
in person, you might have to go through
an application for funding process. So
you're not sure how that looks like. So
you can just indicate that online um and
that's not a problem. So yeah, we'll
have um a mix of online and in person
sessions and those sessions will be run
on teams. So we'll be able to brief
presenters in terms of what that looks
like as we develop the program.
Belinda, will the presenter be
presenting to um the room full of um
attendees uh on the go coast as well as
online? So, a hybrid hybrid
presentation. Is that how Yes. Yeah,
that's our intention. Um and we're just
going to establish the demand of how
many presentation submissions that we
get. Um our preference is for in-person
presentations where possible. Um however
yeah we acknowledge that that can be
difficult with funding um approvals. So
yeah would depend on the format that you
choose and the demand that the working
party gets for each session types. Um we
may choose to have some online only
sessions depending on our numbers as
well. So you might be online and you
might be presenting only to the online
registrations um as opposed to dual mode
but we'll be able to yeah tell you more
details once we get all the applications
in and establish as we develop the
program
um regarding the funding is it um
offered by by the uh student voice cuz
um Novi and I with our pilot project we
we have a fun and which is only $550
at the moment. But yeah, our mentors are
um gathering some funds as well, but not
yet. We're just starting. So, yeah, for
sure. So, yeah, we do have travel grants
available for students from member
institutions, um which I know Murdoch
is. Um at the moment, it's just one
travel grant per institution. Um, and
the amounts are still being finalized,
but based on last year's, um, it was
around $300 to $400,
um, to come over from WA because
obviously that's the most expensive
state, um, to travel from. And so we'll
just be liazing with the um the main
practitioners through the network in
terms of how the institution decides to
allocate those
um student grants. Although yeah having
an accepted presentation
um at the conference I think would
strengthen yeah the application towards
those travel grants as well.
Thank you so much. Dr. K.
Um, no, do you have any questions?
Uh, maybe for the online presentation,
is there any specific types of
presentation that we can choose or all
types?
Um, all types at this stage. Yes. Yeah.
All types. Yeah. Including the poster.
Can we use the poster presentation as
well?
That's a good question. Um,
yes, I'm going to say yes. We haven't
discussed it as a working group just
yet, but it is because we'll have online
participants. Um, so there will be a
break component of the conference where
you could speak to people and present a
poster at that time. Yes. So I'm going
to say yes that is also an option.
Thank you so much. Um I have maybe two
more questions uh regarding the ticket
for presenting. If we present like our
presentation is delivered by two people
but in one group, do we need to purchase
the ticket for one or two?
Um, it would be for two people. Yes.
Yeah. But also the ticket um you do get
a number several free tickets as a
member institution as well. Yes. Yeah.
as well as the travel grants
and yeah,
the confirm cost of all that will be
published on the website um before the
applications close over the next few
weeks.
You maybe one more question for me
regarding the abstract. If we are still
um unsure, we'll choose um like maybe
poster or lightning lightning talk. And
I know that the length of the abstract
is different. So if we choose these two
in our application, so we need to
provide two abstracts as well.
Um, I had not considered that before.
You could submit twice if you wanted.
Um, but because the
the length for both the poster and the
lightning is quite similar. I think the
one submission would be fine. But if you
chose to do like a case study in a
poster for example, then I would suggest
submitting two because they're um
they're quite different.
So your insight session for example is
250 words for your abstract. It has a
little bit of a different um it's a bit
of a different structure to how you'd be
presenting that um you know your your
your project, your research, your
findings. It'll be quite different. and
it is quite structured. Um all the
details are on that SBA um web page and
in this presentation but um it's quite
different from your poster presentation.
So it would actually it would make sense
to have
two submissions. Yeah.
Does that make sense no regarding the
two presentation types? Yes. Thank you
so much. Okay.
And if you're really unsure and you do
want to make a decision before you
submit, um my suggestion is that you do
contact uh Belinda. So you can contact
um Belinda on sba@unisq.edu.auu.
That's the best way to get in touch. and
um just chat it through with Belinda and
you'll um you'll soon sort it out. Might
be easier for you. It's going to be less
work than trying to put in a couple of
submissions because you're not too sure.
Um but yeah, do have a chat to Belinda.
That's that's the best way to go. Yeah.
And as a working group, we'll be
reviewing all of our submissions and
definitely our approach is to try to
ensure we have as many opportunities for
people to present at this conference. So
we may even if we have any feedback we
may get in touch with you and provide
that feedback for consideration or we
might come back to you and say hey we
think this would fit really well in this
category would you be flexible um so
yeah it's we'll always get back to you
if we have any questions as well and our
goal is to yeah just make sure that as
many people as possible have the
opportunity to share their insights and
their experiences as part of um as part
of this conference.
Thank you. Is there any other Yeah.
final questions?
It's so good to hear what you are
thinking of doing Novi and Donna because
you've already got a really wellthought
out um a really good idea. I really hope
you you know you make the decision to
Sounds like you're going to apply. So
I'm really keen to um to see what you
decide to do. But would strongly
encourage you to to get your application
in. It sounds sounds fantastic. you're
going to have a great audience for that
topic too. Really good audience and lots
of good discussion. That's the thing
about these types of conferences is that
you while you are obviously sharing your
practice, that's why the Q&A time at the
end is so important because you will
hear from others what they are doing.
You learn more at these conferences, I
think, in Q&A and coffee and lunch um
than than most most other things. So
yeah, I really hope you get that
opportunity to to attend and um tell us
about the amazing work you've been
doing. Thank you so much, Carrie. And we
we are so blessed that we have really
great mentors for this project. Yeah.
And but uh our project is actually still
ongoing. So maybe what we write in the
abstract and what will we be presented
maybe quite different because we are
currently uh just finalized our research
and uh planning for the pilot and then
next semester from September to October
we will do the pilot. So maybe when we
do the presentation we will have more
insights from the pilot. Yeah. And
obviously make sure you note that in
your your abstract that this is a pilot
and when you'll be you know everything
you just told us if you can note that
because that's actually quite exciting
that we're probably going to be the
first um conference that's going to hear
about some of your impacts and outcomes
from from your project. So that's a real
selling point. Yeah.
Thank you.
I think that might be it, Linda. Yeah.
Thank you so much everyone for joining.
Um, and I also just want to take this
opportunity to say a massive thank you
to Carrie who volunteered um, her time
to run this session for the SBA network
and thank you to Griffith for the
ongoing support in hosting the symposium
and the student summit. So really
looking forward to hopefully seeing you
both there either virtually um or in
person as participants um andor
presenters. So thank you for joining us
today.
Thank you so much. Thank you Carrie.
Thank you everyone. Thank you. Bye.