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Pecha Kucha

Sunday 20 October 2024

6:00pm - 9:00pm

The Squire's Landing [VIEW MAP]

Chapter Get Together

Monday 21 October 2024

7:00am - 7:30am

Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens - Morshead Fountain [VIEW MAP]

Morning Stretch
**Optional**

8:00am - Registration Opens

8:00am - 8:45am

Brisbane Room

Newcomers Breakfast

9:00am

Grand Ballroom

Conference Opening

Welcome – Michael O’Connor, ACEN President
Welcome to Country – Daniel McDonald, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council

9:20am

Grand Ballroom

Keynote Address – AI and WIL: Preparing Students for the Workforce of Tomorrow

Speaker: Jason Lodge, The University of Queensland
Panellists:
Tania Broadley, University of Canberra,
Bonnie Dean, University of Wollongong
Reg Johnson, CISCO
Jason Lodge, The University of Queensland

10:30am - 11:00am - Morning Tea

11:00am - 12:20pm

Session 1
1.1 Perth Room
11:00am
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Integrating genAI Digital Literacy in the Business Capstone to Better Prepare Graduates for the Future World of Work
Laura Rook

11:20am
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Co-Designing WIL Curriculum: Empowering AI-Era Business Graduates
Sonja Coetzee

11:40am
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Simulation Games to Enhance Work Integrated Learning Students’ Wellbeing Literacy
Simon Thornton

12:00pm
SC

Student Perceptions and Impact of Critical Reflection in WIL: A Cross-Disciplinary Study
Bonnie Dean

1.2 Sydney Room
11:00am
SC

Evaluating Success in WIL: What Next?
Denise Jackson

11:20am
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PRISE: A Data Schema for Universal WIL Reporting
Karen Young

11:40am
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A New Benchmark for WIL Program Design: Preparing Students for Career Success
Erin Stacey

12:00pm
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How to Build Interdisciplinarity into Work-Integrated Learning: The Story of the Ako ā-Mahi, Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) Programme at the University of Canterbury
Clare Murray

1.3 Melbourne Room
11:00am
RT40

Centralising WIL: The Administrative and Academic Challenges of Practising Quality Within Centrally Delivered Work-Based-Learning
Clare Lade

11:40am
RT40

The WIL Sustainability Café 2.0: Exploring WIL and Sustainability Practices Contribute to Employability
Rachael Baron

1.4 Brisbane Room
11:00am
SC

Online Interdisciplinary WIL: An Equitable Alternative to Traditional Student Placements
Kim Burley

11:20am
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The Impacts of Multi-Disciplinary Team Experiences on the Employability of Humanities and Social Science Students
Freda Zapsalis

11:40am
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WIL Everything, Everywhere, All At Once: What We Learned from Swinburne’s Whole of Institution WIL Transformation
Ruth Bridgstock

12:00pm
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Automating Internship Experiences and Insights: Monash Talent’s Journey with miX
Julie Harbert

1.5 Canberra Room
11:00am
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Co-Designing a Professional Development Resource to Support Non-Clinical Health Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Industry and Community Supervisors
(Elissa) Jane Kiddell

11:20am
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Impact of Pathways to Practice Programs on Nursing Students Post Graduate Career Choice
Kristina Griffin

11:40am
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Research Informed Curriculum Development for First-Year Graduate Entry Nursing Students
Philippa Marriott

12:00pm
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Clinical Placements are Risky Business: An Innovative Approach to Managing Risk in Clinical Education
Elysia Corallo

12:20pm - 1:20pm - Lunch & Posters

12:30pm - 12:50pm

Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens - Morshead Fountain [VIEW MAP]

Lunchtime Walk
**Optional**

1:20pm - 3:00pm

Session 2
2.1 Perth Room
1:20pm
PN20

Advancing Retention and Employability of Students in STEM Through CSIRO’s WIL Programs
Paloma Siles

1:40pm
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Exploring the Experiences and Perspectives of Australian Speech-Language Pathologists Using Telesupervision When Supervising Students Undertaking Clinical Placements
Joanne Walters

2:00pm
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Work-Integrated Learning in Paramedicine: Insights from Australasian Universities
Laura Triffett

2:20pm
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Two Successful University-Run Engineering Consultancies for Interns
Osman Mah

2:40pm
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Enhancing Placement Preparedness through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Co-Design Informed Approach
Shufen Lin

2.2 Sydney Room
1:20pm
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Assessing the ‘Collaborating with Differences’ Module: Enhancing Group Work and Communication in WIL Through Padlet Reflections on Cultural Differences
Jinqi Xu

1:40pm
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A Legal Solution for Quality WIL in Australia and New Zealand
Craig Cameron

2:00pm
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AAA Pedagogy for Undergraduate Mathematics & Statistics WIL Courses
Geetika Verma

2:20pm
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Help! My Students Can’t Recognise Their Employability Capabilities 🙁
M. Sarah-Jane Gregory

2:40pm
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Paying to Play: Shifting Computing Internships to Paid Placements
Penny Kyburz

2:45pm
PK

Developing WIL Student Capabilities Through Mentoring and Mindfulness
Sandy Fitzgerald

2:50pm
PK

Exploring the Use of Virtual Reality in Speech Pathology: Teaching Clinical Skills in the Classroom
Rachael Unicomb

2.3 Melbourne Room
1:20pm
PN40

Industry Project Internships: Benchmarking Quality at Large Scale
Beau Leese

2:00pm
RT30

“So, How Are You Using Gen AI?” Professional Learning on genAI
Beate Mueller

2:30pm
RT30

Home Sweet Home: Publishing in WIL
Anna Rowe

2.4 Brisbane Room
1:20pm
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WIL Communities of Practice: Results of 2024 Research into Institutional Practices
Leoni Russell

1:40pm
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Rapid Strategies Towards CDL In-Curriculum: An Institution-Wide Approach
Melinda Bufton

2:00pm
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Partnering for Complexity: Developing Cross-Institutional Partnerships for WIL of the Future
Nick McGuigan

2:20pm
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Equity and Developing Confidence: Investigating the Integration of WIL and Career Development in Unit Design
Jennifer Ruskin

2:40pm
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Scaffolded, Flexible and Scalable: The Deakin Business School WIL Suite
Wayne Read

2.5 Canberra Room
1:20pm
PN20

Work Integrated Learning as a Catalyst for Social Justice
Michelle Grant-Iramu

1:40pm
SC

Boosting Quality WIL Experiences: The Scaffolding Momentum
Ying-Yi Chih

2:00pm
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Developing a Whole of University Approach to WIL, Internships and Quality Institutional Practice
Justin Brown

2:20pm
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WIL Industry Engagement at RMIT University: Scaling Impact and Student Success
Maria Vaskova

2:40pm
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Enhancing the Student WIL Experience, One Placement at a Time
Karim Yacoub

3:00pm - 3:30pm - Afternoon Tea

3:30pm - 4:50pm

Session 3
3.1 Perth Room
3:30pm
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Using Career Enrolment Data to Investigate the Relationship Between WIL, Career Readiness and Graduate Outcomes Within an Australian Context
Luella Leon

3:50pm
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The UC Employability Framework: Embedding Employability into Curriculum and Beyond
Stefan Alexander

4:10pm
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Building Trusting Relationships with Industry Stakeholders to Support Their Junior Workforce and Growth Strategies
Luana Caro

4:30pm
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Understanding Quality WIL Supervision: What Does the Literature Say?
Nicola Fish

3.2 Sydney Room
3:30pm
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Integrating Sustainability in Work-Integrated Learning: Research Outcomes Including Enablers, Challenges and Opportunities
Clare Power

3:50pm
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Using a Service-Learning Framework Through a Community Internships Course to Cultivate Graduates Capable of Advancing the UN SDGs
Charmaine Logan-Fleming

4:10pm
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Ensuring High Quality Intensive WIL: Short, but Powerful WIL Experiences
Theresa Winchester-Seeto

4:30pm
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Creating, Sustaining, and Enhancing Purposeful School-University Partnerships: Building Connections Across Diverse Educational Systems
Michelle J. Eady

3.3 Melbourne Room
3:30pm
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Virtual Global WIL Experiences: As Good as the In-Country Version?
Bronwyn Kosman

3:50pm
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Providing Quality Overseas WIL Experiences Cross-Institutionally
Amna Tariq

4:10pm
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From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Enhancing Internship Practices Through Global Perspectives
Andy Radelet

4:30pm
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International Students’ Strategies in Securing Placements and Adapting to Workplaces: Insights From a Doctoral Study
Thai Vu

3.4 Brisbane Room
3:30pm
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‘I Can’t Be Me, I Have to be Professional’: First-in-Family Students’ Experiences of WIL
Bonnie Dean

3:50pm
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Enhancing the WIL Experience for Students from Underrepresented Cohorts: Insights from Research and Practice
Lisa Williams

4:10pm
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Becoming and Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Teacher
Matthew White

4:30pm
RT20

Write Your Abstract in 20 Minutes, and Other Writing Tips
Bonnie Dean

3.5 Canberra Room
3:30pm
SC

Student WIL Experiences in Social Entrepreneurship Education
Linh Nguyen

3:50pm
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The Sustainability of Industry Partners in WIL
Pauline Ross

4:10pm
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Improving Stakeholder Relationships Through Curriculum
Mehal Krayem

4:30pm
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Student Preferences for WIL-Containing Subjects Identified Through Institution-Wide Machine-Learning Analysis of Multi-Year Student Feedback
Michael O’Connor

6:30pm - 10:30pm

Grand Ballroom

Conference Dinner & Awards

Tuesday 22 October 2024

7:30am - 8:00am

Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens - Morshead Fountain [VIEW MAP]

Morning Stretch
**Optional**

8:30am - Registration Opens

9:00am

Grand Ballroom

Day Two Opening

Welcome – Leoni Russell, Conference Chair
President’s Address – Michael O’Connor, ACEN President
ACEN Co-Founder’s Address – Judie Kay, Vice Chair Partnerships & Programs and Chair Global Strategy Council, WACE and Past President, ACEN

9:20am

Grand Ballroom

Keynote Panel – Scaling Quality and Inclusive WIL: Increasing Partnerships with SMEs

Panellists:
Judene Pretti, CEWIL
Nigel Palmer, Business NSW
Anne Younger, Australian Industry Group
Brigitte McKenna, Practera
Marlene Henry, Western Sydney University
Michael O’Connor, ACEN
Moderator:
Bonnie Dean, University of Wollongong

10:30am - 11:00am - Morning Tea

11:00am - 12:20pm

Session 4
4.1 Perth Room
11:00am
PN20

Listening to Aboriginal Voices: The Girringun Aboriginal Corporation-SLIC ICPU Indigenous Service Learning Model
Suzanne Kenney

11:20am
SC

Preparing Indigenous Australians for WIL: Lessons Learned from a Scoping Review of Indigenous Knowledges of Careers and Work
Jacqueline Mackaway

11:40am
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Utilising WIL to Surface the Value of Being Human in an AI-Threatened Profession
Angie Knaggs

12:00pm
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Navigating Trauma: Proximity, Well-Being, and Work Integrated Learning in Higher Education
Clare J. Dannenberg

4.2 Sydney Room
11:00am
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Unlocking the Potential of Learning by Doing via Interprofessional Peer Work Integrated and Experiential Learning in Evaluation
Rachel Toovey

11:20am
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Enhancing Students Learning Using Viva Examinations Within the WIL Curriculum
Rebecca Bevan

11:40am
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Deepening the WIL Experience Through Scaffolded Industry Engagement and Authentic Assessments
Faith Kwa

12:00pm
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From Collaboration to Innovations: Leveraging Transdisciplinary Partnerships to Enhance Student Engagement
Leila Khanjaninejad

4.3 Melbourne Room
11:00am
PN40

To Pay or Not to Pay: What Impact on Quality?
Katharine Hoskyn

11:40am
RT40

Partnering with the Community to Support Young Children to Thrive: A Student-Led Allied Health Outreach Model in Early Education Environments
Cate Hilly

4.4 Brisbane Room
11:00am
SC

The Lucky Draw Doesn’t have to Feel so Random: A Scaffolded Approach to Students’ Career Identity Formation in WIL Placements
Mollie Dollinger

11:20am
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Empowering Student Experience Through Transformative Pedagogy in Professional Internship Unit
Bita Zaferanloo

11:40am
SC

Achieving Best Practice: Navigating the Path of Quality Assurance
Linnea Boileau

12:00pm
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Navigating Collaborative Challenges: Building Industry and Community Partnerships in Work-Integrated Learning
Taryn McDonnell

4.5 Canberra Room
11:00am
PN20

TechLauncher: Launching Careers
Charles Gretton

11:20am
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Records and Archives Student Placement Programs in the Eyes of Key Stakeholders
Anita Dewi

11:40am
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Partnering for WIL in Private Online Institutions
Vivienne (Tien Wing) Ng

12:00pm
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Transforming Doctoral Learning, Transformed Graduates, Changed Workplaces
Martin Andrew

12:20pm - 1:20pm - Lunch & Posters

12:30pm - 12:50pm

Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens - Morshead Fountain [VIEW MAP]

Lunchtime Walk
**Optional**

1:20pm - 3:00pm

Session 5
5.1 Perth Room
1:20pm
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Lessons from the Federation University Cooperative Model
Andrew O’Loughlin

1:40pm
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Leading a Distinctive WIL Strategy Through the Lens of the University’s Vision
Caroline Rueckert

2:00pm
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Evaluating Work Integrated Learning (WIL) in Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Sophie McKenzie

2:20pm
SC

Exploring and Defining Student Expectations for WIL
Suzanne Schibeci

2:40pm
PK

Enhancing Employability of Exercise Science Students Through Curriculum Design
Emily Hill

2:45pm
PK

Scaffolding Career Learning with the Essentials
Andrew Rose

2:50pm
PK

Facilitate a Student Existential Crisis with WIL
Siobhan Ryan

5.2 Sydney Room
1:20pm
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Industry-Collaborative Learning Strategies for Career Preparedness in a Disruptive Fashion Industry
Anna Branford

1:40pm
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Surveillance of the Workplace Milieu: Developing Client Centeredness, Professional and Interprofessional Practice
Keri Moore

2:00pm
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WIL at Scale: Establishing Long-Term Sustainable Partnerships
Francine Crimmins

2:20pm
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Investigating Equity Students’ Experiences of Term-Time Employment and Critically Reflecting Upon Its Implications for Future WIL
Franziska Lessky

2:40pm
PK

Quality International WIL: Creating Engaged Global Citizens
Kate Moss

2:45pm
PK

Nepal Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Program for Health Science Students: Evaluating Cultural Competence and the Interprofessional Learning Experience
Amber Moore

2:50pm
PK

Menstrual Hygiene Health Promotion in Nepal
Alison Bourke

5.3 Melbourne Room
1:20pm
RT30

Equity in Action: Creating Inclusive Placements for all Students
Amani Bell

1:50pm
RT30

USyd Job Smart: Integrating Extra- & In-Curriculum WIL Experience at Scale
Brigitte McKenna

2:20pm
RT40

Design Considerations for Inclusive WIL Assessment in the Health Professions
Joanna Tai

5.4 Brisbane Room
1:20pm
RT30

Tracking Student Employment Readiness Through Software Systems and Data
Elizabeth Bailey

1:50pm
RT30

Heutagogy and WIL: A Learner-Centered and Self-Determined Approach to Enhance Employability Skills
Stacey Carter

2:20pm
RT40

Calling all WIL Pioneers! Colouring Outside the Lines in Developing Alternative and Accessible WIL Experiences at Scale
Elisabeth Valiente-Riedl

5.5 Canberra Room
1:20pm
SC

Oh I don’t know. I don’t know those things’: How Language Markers May Reveal Students’ Sense of Group Membership as They Progress Towards Their Future Profession
Heather Pate

1:40pm
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Crafting a Career Development Learning Plan to Enhancing Student Employability: Case Study on Employable Me Career Prep Bootcamp
Katie Wang

2:00pm
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Capability Design in the Infotainment Age
Dean Merlino

2:20pm
SC

Lego, Squirrels and Pigeons: Creative Approaches for Researching Healthcare Students’ Experience of How They are Prepared for Collaborative Practice
Alexandra Little

2:40pm
PK

Enhancing Student Engagement and Industry Collaboration in Hospitality Management Through Innovative WIL
Andrew Carruthers

2:45pm
PK

Veterinary Nursing Students’ Experiences of Learning and Clinical Supervisors on Placement
Bridget Naughton

3:00pm - 3:30pm - Afternoon Tea

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Session 6
6.1 Perth Room
3:30pm
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Placements and Payments in Postgraduate Psychology: Guiding Principles and Implementation
John Baranoff

3:50pm
SC

Bringing the Workplace into the Academic Classroom
Paula Zito

4:10pm
SC

The Public Health Impact Lab: Consultancy-Based WIL
Rebecca Johnson

6.2 Sydney Room
3:30pm
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Following the Energy: Dynamic and Developmental Program Evaluation
Nicola Parkin

3:50pm
SC

Developing Employability Skills Through a Job Application and Interview Assessment
Vidya Lawton

4:10pm
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Developing Students’ Collaborative Practice: Tapping into Rapport Between Clinical Educators from Different Professions
Susan Heaney

6.3 Melbourne Room
3:30pm
SC

Scaffolding Work-Integrated Learning Opportunities to Balance Quality and Scale
Jared Harrison

3:50pm
SC

Enhancing Student Learning in WIL Courses through Micro-WIL Curriculum Scaffolding
Mahshid Sadeghpour

4:10pm
SC

Scaffolding a Wide Range of WIL Opportunities to Build Authentic, Meaningful, and Complex Student Experiences
Michal Teague

6.4 Brisbane Room
3:30pm
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Using a Benefits Realisation Approach to Co-Design Mutually Beneficial Placements in Architecture and Construction Courses
Joseph Malibiran

3:50pm
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A Novel Professional Development Collaboration: Linking a Regional University With a Local School
Lorraine Gaunt

4:10pm
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Facilitating Effective Industry-University Collaboration: A Flipped Expo Approach to Maximise WIL Opportunities
Ashleigh Cassilles

6.5 Canberra Room
3:30pm
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Service Learning as an Alternative to Traditional Clinical Placements: Experiences of Student Speech Pathologists
Jacqueline McKechnie

3:50pm
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An Innovative Service Learning Model: Reducing Health Disparities in Rural Communities by Exposing Future Allied Health Graduates to Rural Practice
Lauren Woodhart

4:10pm
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Re-Imagining Work Integrated Learning Curriculum Design in Healthcare to Enable a Systems-Focused Approach to Practice
Gillian Nisbet

4:30pm - 5:00pm

Grand Ballroom

Closing Session

People’s Choice Award
Best Poster Award
Announcement of 2026 Conference Destination