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Women in Leadership Summit 2022
22–25 February 2022
Sydney, NSW
The Women in Leadership Summit event is part inspiration, part education. The focus is to empower you to believe in yourself, put your hand up for opportunities and take your seat at the leadership table. You will find out what it takes for the most senior women in Australia to flourish – how they stumbled, and what they learned along the way – so you can put that in your leadership toolkit and thrive.
It features inspiring keynotes, career-focused case studies, jam-packed panel discussions and interactive workshops for an all-encompassing experience.
HERDSA 2022
27–30 June 2022
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, VIC
HERDSA 2022 will inspire: drawing together experience, analysis, and insight in a rapidly changing environment. The disruption of the global pandemic has challenged our assumptions and prompted deep reflection and creative solutions. We are changing the way we work, learn and interact, but we are building from strength.
Showcasing contemporary practice, HERDSA 2022 will combine vibrant face-to-face and virtual streams to welcome participants, wherever they are, to friendly and collegial activities.
HERDSA 2022 has a broad focus on scholarship, research and development in higher education to welcome the diversity of people, topics, and interests that make up our community. The conference program will be organised across the following broad categories:
- Governance and policy
- Teaching, learning and the student experience
- Pathways and partnerships
- Innovation and research
- Professional learning for changing academic practices
- Values, justice, and integrity.
STARS Conference
4–7 July 2022
Online with local opportunities for face-to-face gatherings and networking
Students Transitions Achievement Retention & Success
This conference provides the opportunity to disseminate and discuss current research, good practice, emerging initiatives and leading-edge ideas that are aimed at enhancing students’ tertiary learning experiences. Discussion on a wide variety of subjects is encouraged and focuses on the following topics:
- Students – who are they, what are their needs, what works for different cohorts, strategies for broader social inclusion and increasing participation in tertiary education, participation of first nation peoples
- Transitions – pathways to tertiary education, transitions into (the first-year experience) during (work-integrated learning) and from tertiary education including graduate employability, and capstone experiences
- Achievement – strategies promoting student achievement including curricular and co-curricular reform, employability, gamification, and simulation enhanced learning
- Retention – program, discipline, whole of institution, inter-institutional and sector collaborations designed to improve student retention, threshold skills, and concepts
- Success – student engagement, technology-enhanced learning, understanding students expectations and realities, psychological wellbeing, application of learning analytics